Karl Nikolaus Berg (28 March 1826 - 26 January 1887) was a German politician from Frankfurt.
Biography
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
^"Berg, Carl". Frankfurter Personenlexikon. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
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. ISBN978-3-8353-0536-6.