Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Knoblauch

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Tomb of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Knoblauch on the St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I in Berlin.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Knoblauch (born September 17, 1793 in Berlin , † August 4, 1859 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German entrepreneur and politician . Knoblauch was a member of the Brandenburg provincial parliament , city ​​councilor and city ​​elder of Berlin .

Life

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm came from the Knoblauch merchant family in Berlin, from which numerous scientists, architects and politicians emerged. His grandfather was the Berlin needle maker Johann Christian Knoblauch (1723–1790). He had the Knoblauchhaus built for the family on Poststrasse in the Nikolaiviertel , which is now accessible as a museum. In 1789, his father Carl Friedrich Knoblauch (1765–1813) set up a cloth, white goods and silk shop in the production rooms on the ground floor of the house. He later became a city ​​councilor for Berlin. On August 4, 1789, he married Christiane Luise (1765-1810), born Heiss, the mother of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm. His younger brother Eduard Knoblauch (1801–1865) became an architect. Among other things, he designed the Schlemmin Palace and the New Synagogue in Berlin.

The following graphic shows the family tree of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Knoblauch:

Pedigree of the Berlin line of the Knoblauch family
 
 
 Johann Christian Knoblauch
(1723–1790)
(master needle maker and house founder)
 
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 Carl Friedrich Knoblauch
(1765–1813)
(silk ribbon dealer)
 
 Christiane Luise Heiss
(1765–1810)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Henriette Keibel (1798–1821)
 
 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Knoblauch (1793-1859)
(silk ribbon manufacturer and politician)
 
 Eduard Knoblauch
(1801–1865)
(architect)
 
 Julie Verhuven
(1806–1863)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hermann Knoblauch (1820–1895)
(physicist)
 
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 Gustav Knoblauch
(1833–1916)
(architect)
 
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 Edmund Knoblauch (1841–1883)
(architect)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rudolf Knoblauch (1861–1926)
(silk ribbon manufacturer)
 
 
 
 
 
 Arnold Knoblauch (1879–1963)
(architect)
 
 
 
 
 
 
The owners of the garlic house are in italics .

Professional background

The Knoblauchhaus in Berlin's Nikolaiviertel, the home of the Knoblauch family
Memorial plaque on the garlic house

Knoblauch was a supporter of the gymnastics movement and joined the Prussian army as a volunteer in 1813 in order to be able to take part in the wars of liberation against Napoleon . It was clear early on that he would take over his father's business. After his marriage in 1818 he also took over the silk company of his father-in-law Carl Gottlieb Keibel and united both companies under the name Carl Knoblauch, previously Keibel .

In 1822 Knoblauch became a member of the Citizens Rescue Institute of Berlin and the associated Von Kircheisen Foundation. He was the head of this facility for 13 years and remained a member of it until his death. In the same year he became an unpaid city councilor of Berlin. From 1824 to 1852 he was also a member of the provincial estates of the Mark Brandenburg as a member of the city of Berlin. During this time he made the acquaintance of the initiator of the Prussian reforms from 1807 to 1813, the Prussian reformer Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein , who often stayed at the Knoblauchs' house during his stays in Berlin. Knoblauch helped shape a new urban order and worked out proposals for reforming the freedom of trade , which he presented to the provincial parliament. In 1825 he visited the reformer in Cappenberg (near Lünen), where he had retired after the restoration began in 1815. The collaboration lasted until Stein's death in 1831.

In 1824 he joined the board of directors of the Society of Friends of Art in the Prussian State, which Wilhelm von Humboldt had founded, and at his request took over the office of treasurer . Due to the work in the association, he had close contact with Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Peter Beuth , Johann Gottfried Schadow , Christian Daniel Rauch and Christian Friedrich Tieck , who were often guests in his house. In addition, Knoblauch was a co-founder and member of the board of trustees of the Berlin trade school . In 1828, Knoblauch, together with Karl Friedrich Klöden and Christian Gottlieb Cantian , took responsibility for the manufacture and transport of the large granite bowl in front of the Altes Museum in the Lustgarten. In 1832 he was appointed city ​​elder of Berlin for his services .

In 1843 he accepted the call as a member of the College of the Central Administration of National Debt , of which he was a member for more than ten years. He was later given the title of a secret finance council and during the March government was directly subordinate to the Prussian finance minister David Hansemann . In 1852 he became the deputy of the National Debt Commission.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Knoblauch died on August 4, 1859, at the age of 65, in Bad Wittekind in Halle an der Saale. He was buried in the St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I on Prenzlauer Allee in Berlin. In the parishes of St. Marien and St. Nikolai he was the church leader. His impressive tomb, a two-meter-high stele made of Silesian marble in the form of a neo-Gothic pinnacle, has been preserved but is in poor condition. The epitaph reads:

Faithful to his king and the constitution of the country, he represented the same as a member of the administration of the national debt and of the magistrate of his hometown as long-time head of the citizen rescue institute for church and school for arts and crafts and trade with which God bestowed on him rich gifts tirelessly worked to the fullest sea blessing.

Marriage and offspring

Knoblauch married his cousin Emilie Henriette (born September 9, 1798 in Berlin; † October 26, 1821) in the Nikolaikirche in Berlin on January 10, 1818 , and they both knew each other from childhood. She was the daughter of the Berlin silk manufacturer Carl Gottlieb Keibel. It was a double wedding as her brother Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Keibel married on the same day and place.

The marriage of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm and Emilie Henriette resulted in two children, a son and a daughter. Emilie Henriette died just three years after getting married at the age of 23 from complications from tuberculosis . The only daughter Marie Henriette (born October 18, 1818 in Berlin; † August 19, 1834 in Salzbrunn, Silesia) died early, at the age of 15. Son Hermann Knoblauch (1820–1895) became a physicist and rector of the University of Halle . He was one of the co-founders of the Physical Society .

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SURNAME Knoblauch, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoblauch, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1859
Place of death Halle on the Saale