Carl Quentin

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Johann Christian Carl Quentin , also Karl Quentin , as a German-American Charles Quentin (born December 8, 1810 in Bückeburg , Schaumburg-Lippe , † May 9, 1862 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ), was a Prussian civil servant of the royal government in Düsseldorf , politician of the democratic Movement , travel writer , real estate entrepreneur, and Senator in the Wisconsin Senate .

Life

Education, social environment and activity in the Prussian civil service

Quentin, son of the princely Lippe physician Carl Quentin zu Bückeburg, studied law . In the 1840s he was Councilor in the Royal Government to Dusseldorf . There he was responsible for the commercial sector and in this context, for example, for granting state subsidies . About this task, but also about the family of his wife Charlotte Harkort (1819–1886), the daughter of the early industrialist Peter II. Harkort (1786–1822) who died at Gut Schede and sister of the industrialist Peter III who lived there. Harkort (1820–1888), whom he married on May 8, 1842, had excellent contacts with the Rhenish-Westphalian bourgeoisie , in particular with manufacturers such as Gustav von Mevissen , Quirin Croon (1788–1854) and Friedrich von Diergardt . In the Berlin Ministry of Finance , he was considered one of the outstanding economic and political heads of the Rhine Province . As an answer to pauperism and the social question , he initially supported paternalistic concepts of social reform , for example on April 10, 1841 the establishment of the association for the promotion of hard work, thrift, prosperity and morality among the working population .

As an actor in the German Revolution in Düsseldorf

In the course of the German Revolution of 1848/1849 , when it was initially his concern to keep the Düsseldorf administrative district out of the swelling revolutionary movement by promoting reform approaches, Quentin was one of the almost 2,000 members of the Association for Democratic Monarchy , the early form of a political party , which campaigned for democracy and civil rights , the transformation of Prussia and the German Confederation into constitutional monarchies and for the Greater German solution to the German question . In this political movement, Quentin was part of the leadership team alongside Hugo Wesendonck , Anton Bloem , Lorenz Cantador , Eduard Hölterhoff and Moritz Seelig.

When the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In November 1848, the Prussian National Assembly from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel auswies and the National Assembly on their part to tax resistance called, declared himself in Dusseldorf, the parliamentary seat of the Rhine Province, led by Lorenz Cantador vigilantes to "armed organ of the revolution ”. A little later, on Cantador's orders, the vigilante group searched the Düsseldorf post office for taxpayers' money, whereupon Düsseldorf's district president Adolph von Spiegel-Borlinghausen , Quentin's superior, and division commander Lieutenant General Otto von Drigalski imposed a state of siege on November 22, 1848 and banned the vigilante group.

In this conflict situation, six members of the government, including Quentin, the local police inspector Zeller and the Düsseldorf municipal council, sided with the revolution. This refusal to obey resulted in Zeller being suspended from his position and disciplinary proceedings instituted against Quentin and other officials . Quentin left the civil service as a result of the trial against him and the threat of a punitive transfer . When he - like other Forty-Eighters - decided to emigrate , he received a gift of honor and a letter of thanks from the Düsseldorf city administration.

Emigration and Careers in the United States

In May 1850 he left for the United States via Bremen . There he traveled with his wife for about six months to New York , Illinois , Wisconsin , Ohio , Missouri and Michigan as well as New England states, in particular the cities of Chicago , Milwaukee , St. Louis and Cincinnati . He summarized his impressions in the travel report Travel Pictures and Studies from the North of the United States of America . The work was published by HF Grote in Arnsberg in 1851 . Quentin and his wife, Charlotte, settled in Milwaukee in 1851, where their three children were born.

In his new home, where he purchased the property from Garrett Vliet (1790–1877) near the Milwaukee River on October 15, 1853 , transformed it into a garden that was later called Quentin's Park (later Schlitz Park , now Lapham Park ) and a lived in a fashionable American octagon house at the time , as owner of the real estate company Charles Quentin & Co. he achieved advantageous real estate deals and a political career as a member of parliament. In 1860 he was elected Senator for Milwaukee County to the Wisconsin Senate for the years 1861/1862 . In 1861 he was appointed commissioner of the public debt for the bankrupt city ​​of Milwaukee alongside Alexander Mitchell and Joshua Hathaway . After his death, his wife and children returned to Germany; his widow, Charlotte Quentin, died on April 15, 1886 in Bonn .

In addition to Quentin's Park , a school in Milwaukee was named after Quentin, which has now been closed.

Fonts

  • A word at the time of the workers' coalitions . JHC Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1840; printed in: MCV , Volume 1, Berlin 1848/1849 (Reprint: Hagen 1980, p. 84 ff.)
  • Travel pictures and studies from the north of the United States of America . Two parts in one volume, printed and published by HF Grote, Arnsberg 1851, 209 p. With images from different locations ( digital copy )

literature

  • Jürgen Reulecke : The beginnings of organized social reform in Germany . In: Rüdiger vom Bruch (ed.): “Neither communism nor capitalism”. Civil social reform in Germany from the Vormärz to the Adenauer era . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30882-1 , p. 36.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Peter Schöttler: Rise and Fall of a Factory Court President: The Career of Johann Caspar van der Beek 1803–1861 . In: Archive for Social History 31, 1991, p. 41 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Charlotte Harkort , genealogical data sheet in the gedbas.genealogy.net portal , accessed on May 28, 2016
  3. ^ Lothar Dittmer: Official Conservatism and Modernization. Investigations into the history of the Conservative Party in Prussia 1810–1848 / 49 . Studies on Modern History, Volume 44, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-515-06045-5 , p. 373, footnote 583 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ Friedrich Zunkel : The Rhenish-Westphalian entrepreneur 1834–1879. A contribution to the history of the German bourgeoisie in the 19th century . Dortmunder Schriften zur Sozialforschung, Volume 19, Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne and Opladen 1962, Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1962, ISBN 978-3-322-96166-2 , p. 138 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Rudolf Boch: Prussian reforms and regional identity: the Bergisches Land 1814–1890 , lecture manuscript from February 28, 2015 in the conference Selbstverortungen. Reform history and historical culture in the 19th and 20th centuries , accessed on May 28, 2016 in the portal tu-chemnitz.de
  6. ↑ Düsseldorf during the revolutionary years 1848/49 ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the jaegercorps1844.de portal with a historical treatise (source: www.historisches-zentrum-wuppertal.de), accessed on May 28, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jaegercorps1844.de
  7. ^ Karl Quentin ("K. pruss. Government Councilor a. D."): Travel pictures and studies from the north of the United States of America . Two parts in one volume, print and publisher HF Grote, Arnsberg 1851, 209 p. With images from different places ( digitized version ( memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de
  8. ↑ Charlie House: House on the Street: Walnut St. In: The Milwaukee Journal , December 13, 1965, p. 3 ( Google News )
  9. ↑ John D. Buenker (Ed.): Milwaukee in the 1930s. A Federal Writers Project City Guide . State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2016, ISBN 978-0-87020-742-6 , Chapter Area Seven: The "Wooden Shoe" District
  10. ↑ Historic Designation Study Report: Octagon House (Revised August, 1998) , p. 2, PDF in the city.milwaukee.gov portal , accessed on May 28, 2016
  11. ^ Rudolph A. Koss: Milwaukee . Rapid press print of the "Herold", Milwaukee / Wisconsin 1871, p. 315 ( Google Books , digitized version )
  12. ^ Jürgen Reulecke : The beginnings of the organized social reform in Germany . In: Rüdiger vom Bruch (ed.): “Neither communism nor capitalism”. Civil social reform in Germany from the Vormärz to the Adenauer era . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30882-1 , p. 36
  13. ^ The Wisconsin Blue Book . Democrat Printing Co., Madison 1913, p. 461 ( Google Books )
  14. ^ The late Hon. Charles Quentin . Biography (p. 120) in: PDF in the images.library.wisc.edu portal , accessed on May 28, 2016
  15. ↑ Jerome A. Watrous (Ed.): Memoirs of Milwaukee County: From the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Milwaukee County . Madison / Wisconsin 1909, Vol. 1, p. 144 ( digitized 1 , digitized 2 )
  16. ↑ Robert Tanzilo: Historic Milwaukee Public School Houses . The History Press, Charleston / SC 2012, ISBN 978-1-61423-712-9 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Quentin, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quentin, Johann Christian Carl (full name); Quentin, Karl; Quentin, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant, politician (Democratic Movement), travel writer and senator (Wisconsin)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg , Schaumburg-Lippe
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1862
Place of death Milwaukee , Wisconsin