Karl Nikolaus Berg
Karl Nikolaus Berg (28 March 1826 - 26 January 1887) was a German politician from Frankfurt.
Biography
[edit]Berg was born to surgeon and military doctor Johann Gerhard Wilhelm Philipp and his wife Josephine Johanna Berg.[1] Berg became a lawyer in 1850[2] and was a notary from 1861. He became a senator in Frankfurt in 1865, and was named the second "Bürgermeister" of Frankfurt in 1868.[2][3]
Berg was a long time member of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift association, and took over from Otto Volger as its chairman in 1881.[4] He held this position until retirement in November 1885.[5] He was succeeded by Otto Heuer.
Berg died in 1887 aged 51.
References
[edit]- ^ "Berg, Carl". Frankfurter Personenlexikon. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ a b Adler 1959, p. 220.
- ^ "Berg, Karl Nikolaus". Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ Adler 1959, p. 222.
- ^ Seng 2009, p. 39.
Sources
[edit]- Adler, Fritz (1959). Freies Deutsches Hochstift. Seine Geschichte 1859-1885 (in German).
- Seng, Joachim (2009). Goethe-**Enthusiasmus und Bürgersinn. Das Freie Deutsche Hochstift - rankfurt Goethe-Museum 1881-1960 (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8353-0536-6.