Or simply Frederico Metzger, as he was better known, was born on 7 February 1858, in the Dona Francisca Colony, SC. Son of Franz Metzger and Anna Barbara Spengler. He moved to Curitiba, where he married Paulina Firena Meyer on 05.07.1884.
Regarded as an "active and skilled industrialist", Frederico Metzger manufactured all the machinery for a yerba mate processing mill in Ponta Grossa. In 1905, he owned a significant steam sawmill in Guajuvira, today a district of Araucária, employing 15 to 20 workers. He was also a member of the Curitiba marksmen's society, having been shooting champion for five consecutive years, between 1902 and 1906.
Frederico Metzger died aged 53, at seven in the morning, at his home in Araucária, of natural causes without medical assistance, on 18.11.1910.