Carl Schütte

This article deals with the businessman and patron Carl Schütte, for the astronomer see Karl Schütte .

Carl Schütte (born December 2, 1839 in Bremen , † February 11, 1917 in Bremen) was a German merchant and patron in Bremen.

biography

Schütte attended the commercial schools in Bremen . He completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1856 to 1859, which was followed by a longer stay in America.

In 1862, he and his older brother Franz Schütte (1836–1911) took over their father's trading company, AN Schütte & Sohn zu Bremen. The company, which until then had mainly dealt with the tobacco trade, was active in the new oil import business from 1863/64 and became the most important oil trading company in Germany. In 1890 the Schütte brothers, Wilhelm Anton Riedemann and the American Standard Oil Company founded the German-American Petroleum Company (DAPG), later Esso AG , today Esso Deutschland GmbH , part of ExxonMobil . In 1904 Schüttes and Riedemann held 50% of the shares and Standard Oil the other 50%.

Sponsor

Like his brother Franz, Carl Schütte was a generous patron. He promoted the first Haushaltungsschule in Bremen, supported 1908-1911 the construction of the municipal museum of natural history, ethnology and trade customer (now Overseas Museum Bremen), which gave farm Holdheim in Oberneuland in the form of a -Schütte Foundation Waldemar the club for children's hospitals , supported the Bürgerparkverein , sponsored the parking garage and particularly supported the Red Cross Hospital in Bremen. The gold treasure from pre-Hispanic Colombia was donated to the overseas museum as a collection in 1900. In 1909, on his initiative, today's central Langemarckstrasse in Neustadt was expanded to the south.

In 1905 he became chairman of the Kunstverein in Bremen as the sponsor of the Kunsthalle Bremen . He supported the extension, which was completed in 1902, with 400,000 thalers and supported museum director Gustav Pauli in expanding the collections as a gallery of modern art.

Honors

• The Carl-Schütte-Brücke in the Bürgerpark Bremen was named after him.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Michael Koppel: Horn-Lehe-Lexikon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-1029-5 .