Louis Constanz Berger
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Louis Constanz Berger , also Louis Constant Berger Witten , (born August 28, 1829 in Witten , † August 9, 1891 in Horchheim near Koblenz ) was an industrialist and liberal politician from Witten .
Life
Berger's father was the industrialist Carl Ludwig Berger , who founded the cast steel factory Carl Berger & Co. (later the cast steel plant in Witten , today Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Specialty Steel ).
He joined his father's company and developed the manufacture of cast steel gun barrels , which gave the company a significant boom. In 1873 the company was converted into a stock corporation and Berger moved from Witten and from then on devoted himself only to politics .
Berger was a member of the Prussian Landtag from 1865 to 1891 and a member of the German Reichstag from 1874 to 1881 . He was one of the supporters of the Reich Military Law of 1874. Originally he belonged to the Progress Party and later, together with Loewe-Calbe, formed a separate faction between the National Liberals and the Progress Party.
Because of his services to the promotion of rail traffic conditions , in particular his commitment to the construction of the Wengerohr - Wittlich railway connection , which was inaugurated in 1885 , he was made the first honorary citizen of the city of Wittlich in 1884 . In 2000, the Maare-Mosel-Radweg on the former railway line in Wittlich was named "Louis-Berger-Weg".
A good ten years after Berger's death in 1891, the Witten gymnastics community had the Berger memorial erected in Witten from 1848 from 1902 to 1904 in honor of its co-founder . The Witten Culture Forum is located in the Villa Berger , built in 1839 and the family seat on Ruhrstrasse in Witten .
His grave is in today's Luther Park.
family
He married Louise Harkort on August 17, 1856 (* August 15, 1831; † September 26, 1907), a daughter of the industrial pioneer Friedrich Harkort .
literature
- Gerhard Koetter: Louis Berger. A life in industrial and political awakening .
- Gerhard Koetter: The industrialist and politician Louis Berger . In: Association for local and local history in the county of Mark (Hrsg.): Märkisches yearbook for history . tape 113 . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1097-3 , p. 295-299 .
Works
- Louis Constanz Berger: The old Harkort. A Westphalian image of life and time. Baedeker, Leipzig 1890, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-192300 .
Web links
- Louis Constanz Berger in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Louis Berger . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
- Appreciation of his person with picture on the website of the Association for Local and Local History in the Grafschaft Mark zu Witten 2011 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The wording of the law can be found on Wikisource : Reichs-Militärgesetz
- ↑ Jutta Bublies: Wittener wrote a book about the entrepreneur Louis Berger. WAZ , January 16, 2015, accessed December 25, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Louis Constanz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berger Witten, Louis Constant |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and liberal politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witten |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1891 |
| Place of death | Horchheim near Koblenz |