Carl Merck (entrepreneur)

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Carl Merck

Carl Wilhelm Merck (born December 6, 1823 in Darmstadt ; † March 1, 1885 there ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur.

Life

Carl Merck was the eldest of the three sons of the Darmstadt pharmacist Heinrich Emanuel Merck , founder of the pharmaceutical company Merck , and his wife Charlotte Magdalena Elisabeth Merck nee Hoffmann (1797–1877).

After training as a pharmacist and working for a few years in Paris and London , he joined the Engel pharmacy owned by the family in 1850 - like his brothers Georg ( pharmacist ) and Wilhelm ( chemist ) later - as an equal owner E. Merck an existing business partnership. After the death of their father in 1855, the brothers continued to run the company together, with Carl Merck acting as its commercial director until his death in 1885 - who has since been awarded the honorary title of Kommerzienrat .

Carl Merck was also socially committed. Together with the banker Otto Wolfskehl and other Darmstadt citizens, he founded the building association for workers' housing in 1864 .

Carl Merck was married to the entrepreneur's daughter Marie Susanne Hoffmann (1824–1899), who came from Altenburg near Alsfeld . They had seven children together: Marie (1849–1929; married to later Minister of State Karl Rothe ), Carl Johann Heinrich Emanuel (1851–1904), Georg (1853–1854), Louis Christoph Wilhelm (1854–1913), Carl (1856 –1936), Henriette (1861–1917; married to August Karl Weber ) and Alfred (1865–1879).

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SURNAME Merck, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merck, Carl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1885
Place of death Darmstadt