Karl Nikolaus Berg

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Karl Nikolaus Berg (28 March 1826 - 26 January 1887) was a German politician from Frankfurt.

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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.

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References

  1. "Berg, Carl". Frankfurter Personenlexikon. Retrieved 22 August 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. 1 2 Adler 1959, p. 220.
  3. "Berg, Karl Nikolaus". Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  4. Adler 1959, p. 222.
  5. Seng 2009, p. 39.

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