Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge

Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge 1846

Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge (born April 28, 1830 in Hamburg ; † September 30, 1897 there ) was a German businessman and Hamburg senator.

Life

De Chapeaurouge grew up in Hamburg and attended the school of scholars in Ratzeburg from 1845 to 1849 . He then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg and London . In 1853 he became a partner in the Schoeller & de Chapeaurouge company , which mainly operated in the Straits Settlements and was based in London and Akyab . He worked for this company for six years in Akyab, then part of British India in what is now Myanmar . When the opportunity arose to become a partner in the trading and banking house JH & A. Chapeaurouge in Hamburg, he returned in 1859. In Hamburg he actively participated in Hamburg life. In 1860, like some of his ancestors, he became a deacon of the French Reformed congregation in Hamburg, which had existed there since 1744. In 1864 de Chapeaurouge was elected to the Hamburg citizenship and sent to the deputation for trade, shipping and industry for two years. He served as Vice President of the City Council from 1866 to 1867, and in 1867 he was also a member of the board of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . He was a co-founder of the National Liberal Party and was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in the constituency of Hamburg 1 in 1867 .

Family grave cemetery Ohlsdorf

On December 30, 1867, de Chapeaurouge was elected to the Senate . He was the third of the de Chapeaurouge family to hold a senate office. His cousin Ami de Chapeaurouge (1800-1860) was a senator from 1852 until his death, his older brother Frédéric de Chapeaurouge (1813-1867) served in the Senate from 1858. The Hamburg constitution ruled out that two first-degree relatives could hold a senate office at the same time. De Chapeaurouge was elected almost as soon as possible after his brother's death. As landlord in the Senate, he was responsible for the various land areas: first for Ritzebüttel , then for the Geestlande , later for Bergedorf and then for the marshland . From 1869 to 1877 he was active in the tax deputation and from 1879 to 1892 he was a member of the Senate Commission for the Affairs of the Associations of the Poor . In the meantime he was also president of the high school authority . On November 30, 1892, he resigned from his position due to his severe rheumatism , and was succeeded by Johann Refardt . His nephew Paul de Chapeaurouge was elected senator in 1925.

The burial place of the Hamburg family "Jacques Henri de Chapeaurouge" is located at planquadrat Q 25 (north of the water tower ) at the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf , the original location from 1854 on the burial place of the St. Petri Church (part of the former Dammtor cemeteries ). Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge is named on the communal grave plate at the bottom right.

literature

German gender book . Volume 127 (= Hamburg gender book. Volume 9). 1961, p. 147.
Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Chapeaurouge, Charles Ami de. In: Hamburg biography . Volume 5, Hamburg 2010, p. 77 f.

Web links

Commons : Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge - collection of images, videos and audio files

Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 294; Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann (arr.): Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook . (= Photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, photo p. 95, short biography p. 389.
^ Richard J. Evans : Death in Hamburg. City, society and politics in the cholera years 1830-1910. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 47.
^ Eberhard Kellers: Burial grove and crypt: the tombs of the upper class on the old burial grounds in Hamburg. Issue No. 17 of workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Hamburg. Verlag Christians, 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1294-3 , pp. 128 and 131
↑ grave inscriptions at genealogy.net

personal data
SURNAME	Chapeaurouge, Charles Ami de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German businessman and Senator from Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1897
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 294; Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann (arr.): Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook . (= Photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, photo p. 95, short biography p. 389.

[2] Richard J. Evans : Death in Hamburg. City, society and politics in the cholera years 1830-1910. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 47.

[3] Eberhard Kellers: Burial grove and crypt: the tombs of the upper class on the old burial grounds in Hamburg. Issue No. 17 of workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Hamburg. Verlag Christians, 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1294-3 , pp. 128 and 131

[4] rave inscriptions at genealogy.net