Frenger, Karl
Surveyor, founding member of the Eigenheim building cooperative
Born: May 6, 1871 in Lennep
died: May 5, 1961 in Wiesbaden

After attending elementary school and the Sonntags-Fortbildungsschule, Karl Frenger trained as a surveying technician at the cadastral administration in Wipperfurth, where he then worked as an office manager.

Between 1892 and 1895 he worked as a freelancer for the Royal Government of Cologne. This was followed by a four-year period with the Rhenish Provincial Administration in Düsseldorf. In 1899, Frenger joined the City of Wiesbaden and worked here as a surveying officer until his retirement in 1936. Frenger suffered from a chronic heart condition, which is why he was not called up for military service.

Karl Frenger was a founding member of the Wiesbaden building cooperative "Eigenheim eGmbH", which was established in 1903. This association acquired building plots in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg to create living space for civil servants, officers and merchants. This initiative developed into today's Eigenheim district by expanding the estate.

During the Nazi era, Karl Frenger was accepted into the Reichsbund Deutscher Beamter in 1934 for professional reasons and joined the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization. After the end of the Second World War, no proceedings were brought against him, as he was not considered to be incriminated.

When the Eigenheim housing estate was extended at the end of the 1980s, a street, Karl-Frenger-Steige, was named after him in the Sonnenberg district in 1989. It is intended to commemorate Frenger's services in the founding of the Eigenheim estate.