Carl von Kühlewein

Ludwig Friedrich Theodor Carl von Kühlewein (born February 25, 1846 in Malchin , † February 21, 1916 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur and numismatist .

origin

His parents were the Imperial Russian Councilor Gustav Friedrich von Kühlewein (* December 23, 1800 - June 6, 1867) and his wife Auguste Henriette Sophie Christiane Nicolai . His father was the master of Pieskow in the Beeskow-Storkow district and owned the Russian hereditary nobility. On July 31, 1895, the Prussian nobility was recognized.

Live and act

Kühlewein was director of the Große Berliner Pferde-Eisenbahn AG , founded in 1871, which began operations in 1873 with the route from Rosenthaler Platz to Gesundbrunnen , in 1898 with the electrification of the Große Berliner Straßenbahn (GBS) became the dominant Berlin transport company and finally in 1929 still existing urban Berliner Verkehrs-AG (BVG) was transferred.

He was called the Privy Councilor and was the inspiration for the first Berlin industrial exhibition (1896). On July 31, 1895, he and his younger brothers, Hermann (1847–1931), royal Prussian forester in Ziegelroda near Roßleben, and Leopold (1849–1928), royal Prussian general physician , were admitted to the Prussian nobility by a royal diploma.

In 1898 he became a member of the supervisory board of Maschinenfabrik Ludwig Loewe & Co. AG in Berlin, where he remained until his death. He also worked as a numismatist, especially as a medal collector, wrote a number of articles for coinage periodicals (magazine for numismatics, magazine for numismatic collecting, Berlin coin papers) and was a member of the Numismatic Society in Berlin. As a legacy, he donated his important collection of 5,000 Berlin medals to the Berlin Coin Cabinet (1916). He was married to Bertha Krey (1855–1903) in his first marriage from 1877, and from 1905 in his second marriage to Agnes von Garnier (* 1857).

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf . A street in Berlin-Reinickendorf is named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• Berlin medals. In: Journal of Numismatics. 20 (1904).
• The horse on Brandenburg-Prussian coins and medals. In: Berliner Münzblätter. NF 1/1906.
• The sculptor and modeller Leonhard Posch (1750–1831). In: Berliner Münzblätter. NF 2/1907, pp. 614-619 (with Hildegard Lehnert).

literature

• Emil Bahrfeldt: Christian Lange Collection & Carl von Kühlewein Collection. In: Berliner Münzblätter. 5/37 (1916), pp. 540-541.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. Volume 1. 1907, p. 449 .
• Nobility Lexicon. Volume VII, Limburg 1989, p. 64.

Web links

• www.luise-berlin.de