Walther Langen

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Walther August Langen (born July 28, 1857 in Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte , today Troisdorf , † August 22, 1912 in Cologne ) was a German banker , industrialist and district administrator in the Cochem district .

Life

From 1876 Langen studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . He was active in the Corps Hansea Bonn and the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . In 1879 he became a trainee lawyer in Bonn. In 1880 he graduated as Dr. iur.

From 1882 he worked as a government trainee in Arnsberg, Burg and Potsdam, and in 1886 as a government assessor in Gumbinnen . In 1887 he was entrusted with the administration of the Lyck District Office . In 1888 he became district administrator in the district of Cochem. In 1894 Langen resigned from the civil service at his own request and was appointed director of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Bodencreditbank in Cologne and in 1897 joined the board of A. Schaaffhausen'sche Bankverein . Here he was mainly active in industrial finance , namely in mining . He was chairman of the supervisory board of the Trier mining companies, the international drilling company in Erkelenz, the international coal mining company , the Deutsche Mineralien-Industrie AG and the civil engineering and refrigeration industry AG formerly Gebhardt & König in Nordhausen. He was a member of the supervisory board of numerous industrial companies . On June 20, 1912, he left the A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bankverein for health reasons.

literature

  • Carl Manfred Frommel : The members of the Bremensia zu Göttingen from February 25, 1811 to the present , Göttingen 1912, No. 823 (p. 219).
  • Academic monthly books 29 (1912/13), p. 265.
  • Alfons Friderichs: Dr. Walther August Langen, in personalities from the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 107.
  • Robert Castor (author): Die Landräte von Cochem and Zell, Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 2006, pp. 67–71.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11 , 210; 39 , 838
personal data
SURNAME Langen, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langen, Walther August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrich Wilhelms Hut
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1912
Place of death Cologne