Carl Patschke

This article deals with the instrument maker and founder Carl Patschke (1844–1916). For the lithographer of the same name, see Carl Patzschke (1813–1871).

Carl Patschke , too: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Patschke (* 11. November 1844 in Hannover ; † 16th September 1916 ), was a German instrument makers and entrepreneurs , Pianoforte - producer , coin collectors and donors .

Life

Karl Patschke in 1844 in the royal capital of the Kingdom of Hanover in the local House Röselerstraße 5 born the son of from Meineweh in Zeitz originating court -Instrumentenmachers Johann Gottlieb Patschke and his wife Luise Franke, one from Wunstorf coming daughter of a tanner .

Karl Patschke's father had already run a court piano factory and store in Hanover since 1833 in what would become the street Theaterstrasse 4 , later in Gneisenaustrasse , which his son then took over after completing his commercial training and which he ran under the company name until his death Piano dealer JG Patschke . In 1844, the year Carl Patschke was born, Johann Gottlieb Patschke was a participant in the fourth general trade exhibition of the Kingdom of Hanover , where he presented grand pianos and other keyboard instruments, for which he was awarded a bronze medal.

Karl Patschke found out about the fate of poor mothers through his friends and family, which made him feel morally obliged to help. Therefore, on April 21, 1914, he decreed in his will that after his death a foundation should come into force to support needy mothers of the Evangelical faith and their children in the first year of life in his hometown .

Karl Patschke collected throughout his life German and European coins , medals , medals , plaques and decorations from the 17th to the 19th century, including some 20,000 coins he the Kestner Museum under his time director Albert Brinckmann bequeathed. At another point in time, the later director Bernhard Engelke estimated the coin value of Patschke's collection alone at around 213,000 Reichsmarks . Patschke's legacy contributed significantly to the expansion of the ancient and medieval special coin collection of the Kestner Museum into a comprehensive cabinet.

The unmarried instrument maker and piano dealer Carl Patschke also bequeathed a fortune of more than 1.5 million marks . The largest part, 1,200,000 marks, was to be used to set up a foundation for women who had recently given birth and for baby care , while the smaller part was intended for bequests for charitable purposes.

Patschke was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery .

Carl Patschke Foundation

With the donation of all his remaining fortune to his hometown after his death, Patschke established the Carl Patschke Foundation named after him and administered by the city of Hanover , which can financially support mothers of Protestant faith living in Hanover with their small children in the first year of life.

Thanks to a high level of real estate and capital that was invested in the Carl Patschke Foundation for leases in allotment gardens , for example , the foundation survived the German hyperinflation , the Second World War and the currency reform of 1948 . After the financial crisis , however, the foundation's interest income fell by 2010 . But because, on the other hand, "apparently too few women, and especially the mediating counseling centers, have an eye on their help, fewer and fewer mothers are claiming money." - Received euros from the foundation's investment income.

Archival material

Archival material from and about Carl Patschke can be found, for example

• in the city ​​archive of Hanover : The Patschke legacy was filed there under archive signature HR XC 2 No. 42 .

literature

• Theda Minthe (Red.): Carl Patschke Foundation , in: Guide to foundations in Hanover , revised new edition 2014 (according to the imprint November 2013), ed. by the City of Hanover, the Lord Mayor , in cooperation with the Foundation Initiative Hanover, updated new edition, Hanover: City of Hanover, November 2013, p. 45

See also

• List of Hanoverian purveyors to the court

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Theda Minthe (Red.): Carl Patschke Foundation , in: Guide to foundations in Hanover , revised new edition 2014 (according to the imprint November 2013), ed. by the City of Hanover, the Lord Mayor, in cooperation with the Foundation Initiative Hanover, updated new edition, Hanover: City of Hanover, November 2013, p. 45
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Compare Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series (double volume) 44-45 (1990), p. 73; Preview over google books
3. ^ ^{A b c} Frank Berger: The collection of coins, medals and gems , in Ulrich Gehrig (Hrsg.): 100 years Kestner Museum Hannover - 1889 - 1989 , Hrsg .: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, der Oberstadtdirektor, Hannover: Kestner Museum, 1989, ISBN 978-3-924029-14-2 and ISBN 3-924029-14-8 , pp. 94-105, v. a. P. 98; Preview over google books
4. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Vol. 37, 1916, p. 118; Preview over google books
5. ^ ^{A b} Karl Karmarsch : Report on the fourth general exhibition of domestic industrial products . In: Karl Karmarsch, Theodor Oldekop (Red.): Notifications of the trade association for the Kingdom of Hanover , year 1844/1845 or delivery 35–43, with 4 copperplate engravings and alphabetical subject indexes for the years 1840–1845, Hanover: in commission of Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1845, p. 455; Digitized via Google books
6. ↑ oV : The city and its Foundations / Carl-Patschke Foundation on the side hannover.de [no date], as last accessed on December 2, 2017
7. ↑ Gunnar Menkens: Foundations / Interest is donating / Banks hardly pay any interest, the future of the euro remains in the dark. So that foundations can still generate money for good causes, asset managers shift the capital , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 15, 2012, updated on August 18, 2012, last accessed on December 2, 2017