Otto Jäger (politician, 1827)

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Otto Jäger memorial, photo taken by 1922 at the latest

Otto Jäger (born June 6, 1827 , † August 23, 1892 ) was a German manufacturer in Barmen and a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament .

Life

Otto Jäger's parents were the manufacturer and city councilor Karl Jäger (born July 19, 1792 in Barmen, † January 4, 1871 ibid) and his wife Carolina Elisabeth Paulus (1801–1874). His brothers were Hugo (1823-1896) and Ernst Rudolf (1842-1922). His sister Sophie Pauline married the founder of the cellulose factory Attisholz (Switzerland), Benjamin Sieber

Jäger was co-owner of the Barmer paint factory Carl Jäger at Viktoriastraße 4. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament, member of the Chamber of Commerce in Barmen since it was established in 1871, member of the board of the Barmer construction company for workers' housing since it was founded in 1872 and member of the Barmer Bankverein . He also sponsored the institution for abandoned children as well as art and science. From 1880 until his death in 1892 he was deputy chairman of the Barmer Beautification Society . In August 1890 he became chairman of the committee for the beautification of the Unterbarmer grounds . Under his leadership, paths were laid here and the Kaiser-Friedrich-Höhe designed south of the Unterbarmer cemetery .

Honors

Remaining column of the monument, 2007

Otto Jäger was an honorary citizen of the city of Barmen .

On April 11, 1893, an order for an Otto Jäger memorial was awarded to the sculptor Paul Disselhoff , who made a marble bust for almost 1,500 marks, and to the stone sculptor Friedrich Backhaus , who created the column for 1,300 marks. In 1957 the Neue Rhein-Zeitung reported on the desolate condition of the monument. The city of Wuppertal had the column removed in 1964 and stored it in the Barmen cemetery of honor . The column was later transported by the Barmer Beautification Association on Lönsstrasse to the municipal depot in the Nordpark . After a media initiative by the Wuppertaler Rundschau in 1992, it was re-erected at its original location, without the lost marble bust, on the plateau behind the Leimann'schen pub between Oberbergische Strasse and the Eisenlohr monument .

Web links

Commons : Otto Jäger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Jäger . In: heidermanns.net
  2. ↑ Otto Jäger Memorial. In: denkmal-wuppertal.de
  3. ↑ Otto Jäger ( Memento from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and member of the Rhineland Provincial Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1827
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1892