Popke Fegter

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Popke Fegter (born February 17, 1874 in Schoonorth ; † February 21, 1946 in Norden ) was an entrepreneur in the north as well as a founding member and long-term chairman of the drainage association .

family

Popke Hermann was the son of David Rewerts Bussen Fegter and his wife Reentje van der Velde from Visquarder Mehde.

Life

Popke Fegter was born in Schoonorth, a district of Osteel . His father died in 1885 at the age of 11. Popke attended elementary school in the Werdenumer Neuland and then the Ulrichgymnasium in Norden and then an agricultural school in Celle. In Berlin he was trained as a volunteer in the Guard Regiment from 1895 to 1896 . After completing his training, he took over his father's farm.

On March 29, 1904, he married his wife Maria Margaretha Gersema.

In 1912 Popke left farming. He acquired shares in the Norder Fehn company and moved north. In 1912 he built an imposing house on the property at today's Osterstrasse 34. In 1914, Fegter was elected to the community committee of the community of sand farmers; as their mayor, he incorporated them to the north in 1918. In 1915 Fegter was elected director of the Norder Fehn Society .

From 1919 Popke Fegter was appointed senator by the municipality of Norden. In 1927 he acquired the Norder Eisenhütte together with Senator Carl Stegmann and Director Wilhelm Landmann .

In addition, Popke Fegter played a key role in founding the North Drainage Association in 1926. Here, for the benefit of East Friesland, he organized the construction of the dike in front of the Norder Aussentief. The new sewer on the Leybuch proved its worth, and for the first time in 1930 there were no floods in the eastern Norderland. The expansion of the drainage over the Norder Tief took place in the following years. Two new bridges were built over the Galgentief, the old Norder Siel could be removed.

The organization of public work in East Frisia for meliorization helped to reduce unemployment. This was not what the aspiring National Socialists liked.

After the Nazis seized power, Fegter suffered from denunciations and defamation. He was also temporarily imprisoned and lost the ironworks in 1936 through expropriation. In 1938 Popke fled to Hanover. Towards the end of the Second World War, Popke returned north and died after a stroke in his house on Osterstrasse.

In 2012, the newly built square between Norder Tief and Norder Tor shopping center was dedicated as Popke-Fegter-Platz in his hometown of the north .

literature

  • Heinz Ramm: Popke Fegter (1874–1946). His life and work in the Norderland. SKN-Verlag, Norden 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The grave of Popke Fegter on the website www.grabsteine-ostfriesland.de; accessed on January 11, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=157803805
personal data
SURNAME Fegter, Popke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur in the north as well as founding member and long-time chairman of the drainage association
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Schoonorth
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1946
Place of death North (East Frisia) , Germany