Carl Wilhelm Otto Rusch

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Carl Wilhelm Otto Rusch (* 1836 in Soltau , † after 1914 ) was a German court - Goldsmith .

Life

Carl Rusch was born in the city of Soltau in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1836 as the son of watchmaker Carl Heinrich Georg Rusch .

With his uncle Friedrich Wilhelm von Bestenbostell (born May 9, 1799 in Walsrode , December 28, 1870 in Celle ) Carl Rusch went through training as a "silver workers" and then went on a four-year wandering , during which he North America , Vienna and Berlin attended .

From August 12, 1862, Rusch started working for the royal Hanoverian court jeweler Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Bückmann in Hanover , before starting in October 1866 in the shop of Karl Matthias' widow (actually: Johann Karl Matthias junior ). With the aim to take over the business of the widow Matthias, acquired Rusch on 21 January 1867, the civil rights of the city of Hanover and the right to lead the league title and hallmarked own gold and silverware since then some with the signs RUSCH (in the rectangle) MATTHEW 12 AFTER

In 1897, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, in his capacity as King of Prussia, awarded Carl Rusch the title of Royal Prussian Court Goldsmith. In the magazine Exlibris , the " Ciseleur " Carl Rusch was listed as the "Court Jeweler IM of the Empress". During the First World War, he ran the workshop founded in 1768 at 45 Langelaube.

literature

  • Wolfgang Scheffler : Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony. Data, works, characters , first half volume: Aerzen - Hamburg , Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1965, p. 787f. u.ö.

Web links

  • Theo Hecker: Rusch example punch in the image database Old hallmarks of German cities on the Silberpunze.freehost.ag page

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Wolfgang Scheffler : Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony. Data, works, characters , first half volume: Aerzen - Hamburg , Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1965, p. 787f. u.ö .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Exlibris, Buchkunst und angewandte Graphik Vol. 7–8, 1897, p. 148; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Reinhard Oberschelp : Steel and turnips. Contributions and sources on the history of Lower Saxony in the First World War (1914–1918). Vol. 1, Niemeyer, Hameln 1993, ISBN 978-3-87585-462-6 , p. 194; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Rusch, Carl Wilhelm Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court goldsmith, jeweler and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Soltau
DATE OF DEATH after 1914