Carl Mathies

This article describes the life of the Hamburg Senator. The life of his father, the insurance manager, is described in the article Carl Mathies (Insurance Manager) .

Carl Mathies 1905

Carl Georg Ludwig Mathies (born February 11, 1849 in Hanover , † December 23, 1906 in Hamburg ) was a businessman and Senator from Hamburg.

Life

Grave "Senator Mathies",
Ohlsdorf Cemetery (further pictures)

Mathies was born in Hanover as the son of Carl Friedrich Ludwig Mathies and Louise Juliane, b. Berkefeld (1825–1902) born, grew up in Hanover and did a commercial apprenticeship in Mannheim from 1864 to 1867 . This was followed by two more years of apprenticeship in his uncle's company, LF Mathies & Co. in Hamburg, and one and a half years in a bank in Paris . Due to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 , Mathies had to give up his work in Paris. He returned to Hamburg and rejoined his uncle's company, which became a partner in 1871. In 1879 he acquired Hamburg citizenship. From 1891 to 1904 he worked as the ducal Saxon-Coburg-Gotha consul in Hamburg and was a commercial judge from 1891 to 1894 . Mathies was elected to the Hamburg citizenship in 1897 and was a member of it until his election to the Senate on January 11, 1904. In the Senate he was active in various areas, but above all in the College of the Poor, of which he had been President since 1905.

In 1873 Mathies married Agnes Maria Henneberg, daughter of the factory owner Siegmund Henneberg in Gotha and Clotilde Caroline Perthes.

Carl Mathies, as well as his wife and two children who died early, was buried in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf in grid square AC 13 (above Stiller Weg , west of Nordteich ).

The writer and Catholic priest Paul de Mathies (1868–1924), son of the shipping company owner Ludwig Friedrich Mathies (1825–1898), was his cousin.

source

• German Gender Book Volume 44, Hamburg Gender Book Volume 6, 1923, p. 225