Arnold Marggraff

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Carl Arnold Marggraff (born May 17, 1834 in Berlin ; † June 5, 1915 in Berlin) was a city ​​councilor in Berlin and from 1877 head of the sewerage deputation. In 1911 he was awarded the honorary title of Privy Councilor and honorary citizen of the city of Berlin for his services to the construction of the Berlin urban drainage system .

Life

Arnold Marggraff was the son of the school principal Dr. Franz Eberhard Marggraff (1787–1879) and his wife Eleonore Engel (1798–1879). He completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and after his time as an assistant in Altona and his studies in Berlin, he was initially the owner of the “König Salomon” pharmacy in Berlin. In 1863 he then acquired the so-called “ Rothe Apotheke ” on Rosenthaler Strasse , at the corner of Neue Schönhauser Strasse, where it is still located today.

As a pharmacist, Marggraff was a board member of the North German Pharmacists 'Association and a member of the Berlin Pharmacists' Association and also devoted himself to local political issues. From 1866 he was a member of the city ​​council of Berlin; In 1867 he became a city councilor and held the department for urban foundation deputation and the department for urban sewerage. In this position, Marggraff, together with Rudolph Virchow, pushed ahead with the plan designed by James Hobrecht for the construction of the Berlin sewer system, combined with the creation of sewage fields and their management. The purchase of a large part of land and forest for the city is also due to his initiative. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees for Lighting Matters, which put the first electric lamps into operation at Potsdamer Platz in 1882 .

Arnold Marggraff died in Berlin in 1915 at the age of 81 and was buried in the Sophienfriedhof II there. Although the grave was not preserved, it continued to be listed as the “ Honorary Grave of the State of Berlin ” for many years . This dedication was revoked in 2005.

Honors

  • Gut Marggraffshof , founded in 1911, in the same year as the award of honorary citizenship in southwest Berlin, bears his name.
  • The Marggraff Bridge over the Britzer connecting canal in Berlin was named after him.

literature

  • Heinz Ohff, Rainer Höynck (ed.): The Berlin book . Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87776-231-X , p. 112.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Marggraff, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marggraff, Carl Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician, city councilor in Berlin and head of the sewerage deputation
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1915
Place of death Berlin