Address house Berlin
The address house was an office for commission trading and job placement founded in Berlin in 1689 , which was later primarily a pawn shop and existed until 1834.
history
The Huguenot, who emigrated to Berlin, received from Elector Friedrich III. the authorization to set up an address office, which should operate commission trading and job placement. Clothing, jewelry and other goods could be given on commission and were auctioned off by the office in public. Five percent of the sales price remained with the office as commission. In addition, job placement was offered for servants. Since Pierre Vouchard was violently killed on a trip to Switzerland, his son Jacob Vouchard received approval to set up the office. He rented a house on Brüderstraße. Since business was very bad, Vouchard was withdrawn in 1691 due to inability and many debts.
In 1692, the merchant and banker Nicolas Gauguet took over the business, which was under French jurisdiction. The address house should primarily take on the function of a pawn shop, but also provide brokerage services for the sale and rental of real estate. Gauguet died on May 1, 1695. Robert Jacobé, who came from Vitry, was appointed his successor. In 1699 he was released again. Daniel de Persy (Percy) and Jean Palmié (Palmier), who were also obliged to operate employment agencies, were the new heads. After Percy's death in 1716, Palmier became the sole director. The address house moved to the French town hall on Werder. In April 1740 Palmier resigned from his office. He was followed by his daughter and her husband Charles Humbert. The address house was relocated to Humbert's house on Kurstrasse. Charles Humbert died in 1752. He was succeeded by his son Jean-Charles. The address house remained in the possession of the Humbert family.
In 1781 Frederick II once again confirmed the French responsibility for pawn shops, the profits of which traditionally went mainly to the French orphanage and later to the French grammar school . In 1793 Daniel-Charles Humbert was named director. The community of heirs also included Paul Humbert and the women Bocquet and Delprut from the family. In 1829/34 the address house was liquidated and the royal loan office was set up. The old address house was demolished in 1870 for the expansion of the Reichsbank .
literature
- Ute Laur-Ernst: The city of Berlin in printmaking 1570-1870, Vol. 2 . 1st edition. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-055-9 , pp. 382 .
- Anton Tantner: Address offices in early modern Europe, habilitation thesis, submitted to the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna . 2011, p. 88 ff . ( PDF , accessed on August 7, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GStA I. HA Rep. 109 A, No. 3: Regulations for the Kgl. Lending office in Berlin , 1834