André Auguste Le Coq

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André Auguste Le Coq (born November 18, 1827 in Kempten am Rhein , † January 28, 1894 in Berlin ), name variation: Andreas August von Le Coq , (from 1875), was a Prussian businessman and insurance director.

Life

Origin and family

André Auguste came from the Huguenot family Le Coq , which originally lived in Metz . The merchant Jean Le Coq (1669–1713) came to Germany as a refuge . He was descended in a direct line from Toussaint Le Coq, who married Jeanne Doron in Metz in 1565.

André Auguste's father was the merchant, landowner and founder of the still existing A. Le Coq brewery in Estonia , Jean Louis Albert Le Coq (1800–1875), who was married to Anna Maria Wittus from Trier.

Le Coq was married to Martianne Fréderike Wilhelmine Poppe (1826–1902), daughter of the businessman Johann Friedrich Poppe from Berlin, who also came from an immigrant family. and the Caroline Henriette Michelet.

The couple had 5 children. This included the archaeologist and Central Asia researcher Albert von Le Coq (1860–1930).

education

August grew up in England, was trained in Berlin and Hamburg, followed by stays in America, China and India.

Career

His father-in-law ran a trading company in Berlin under the JFPoppe company, whose shareholders were Johann Friedrich Poppe and Hermann Josef Dünnwald. There was also a principal agency of the Colonia Fire Insurance Company.

Hermann Josef Dünnwald left the company in 1854. That obviously happened in the strife, as the advertisement about the separation shows. The separation was obviously also a topic in the satirical magazine Kladderadatsch

In the mid-fifties, i.e. after leaving the company, Poppe took his son-in-law into JFPoppe as a partner because of his international business experience. In addition to commission and freight forwarding business , this company specialized in wine wholesaling, trading in products and seeds as well as wholesaling with mineral fertilizers and overseas guano . As already stated above, also the insurance agency.

The senior boss later left the company. In the mid-sixties, Le Coq continued the JFPoppe & Co. company with a new partner Carl Hermann Beccard, who was also of Huguenot descent. In 1877 Beccard was the sole owner of JFPoppe & Co.

Le Coq had probably left the company earlier. At the shareholders' meeting of the Berlin Life Insurance Company on October 15, 1872, he was elected director of the company as the successor to the late Victor von Magnus, who was one of the founding members of Deutsche Bank.

Coat of arms of 1875 August by Le Coq

With a diploma on September 17, 1875, he was raised to the nobility as co-director of the Berlin life insurance company, businessman and landowner .

coat of arms

The quartered coat of arms from 1875 shows within a golden shield border in fields 1 and 4 cocks, in field 2 in blue three silver lilies, in field 3 a sword. On the helmet is a growing golden lion.

literature

Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt, Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries: Entrepreneur careers and migration. Families and social circles in the capital of Brandenburg-Prussia. The elders of the Korporation der Kaufmannschaft zu Berlin , 2002 p. 209 ff, digital reading . Google books is constantly changing the pages that are visible on the Internet.

References and comments

  1. ^ Richard Béringuier : Family trees of the members of the French Colonie in Berlin , 1885, p. 31 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ A b c Moeller, Volker, "Le Coq, Albert von" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985), p. 36 f. Online version digital
  3. ^ Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt, Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries: Entrepreneur careers and migration. Families and social circles in the capital of Brandenburg-Prussia. The elders of the Korporation der Kaufmannschaft zu Berlin , 2012, p. 209 Digital reading
  4. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, year (1913). Seventh year online edition Düsseldorf: University and State Library, 2010, digitized
  5. ^ A b c Nadja Stulz-Herrnstadt, Berlin bourgeoisie in the 18th and 19th centuries: Entrepreneur careers and migration. Families and social circles in the capital of Brandenburg-Prussia. The elders of the Korporation der Kaufmannschaft zu Berlin , 2012, p. 212 ff and footnotes 186 to 190 digital reading
  6. ^ Vossische Erben, Königlich privilegirte Berlinische Zeitung of state and learned things.  1848,10 / 12, p. 41 digitized
  7. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin , year 1848, p. 340 digitized
  8. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung 1855, first supplement from January 11, 1855 p. 165 digitized
  9. ↑ Kladderadatsch Berlin, Humoristische-Satyrisches Wochenblatt, 1855, January 21, 1855, p. 15 and February 4, 1855, p. 23 Digitalization Unfortunately, the satires cannot be understood from today's perspective. There may be a divorce involved with a John Russel, which has been the subject of many newspaper articles. At that time there was a company Schmolz and Wagner in Berlin on which the saying Poppe and Dünnwald est mort! Vive Schmolz and Wagner was: [1]
  10. ↑ Scherl, Berlin address book: 1877 p. 608 digitized
  11. ^ Homepage of the Historical Society of Deutsche Bank eV , accessed on April 14, 2020, digitized
  12. ↑ Fr (iedrich) Wallmann , Preussische Versicherungszeitschrift: Organ for Law, Constitution u. Administration d. Insurance companies , Volume 7, 1873, p. 76 digitized
  13. Jump up ↑ Der deutsche Herold, Zeitschrift für Wappen-, Siegel- und Familienkunde , 1776, Volume 7, p. 7 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Le Coq, André Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Coq, Andreas August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian businessman and insurance director
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1894
Place of death Berlin