Christian Matthias Schröder (politician, 1742)

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Christian Matthias Schröder

Christian Matthias Schröder (born January 30, 1742 in Quakenbrück ; † July 6, 1821 in Hamburg ) was a Hanseatic merchant, senator from 1799 and mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 1816 until his death .

Cushion stone for Christian Matthias Schröder,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

He married Luise Mutzenbecher in Hamburg in 1773 (* 1754 Hamburg, † 1813 in Ruhleben near Plön). Schröder built the extensive trading house Christ from Hamburg . Matthias Schröder & Co. on. For import and export via Hamburg, he set up branches in Bremen , Amsterdam and London in the west as well as Saint Petersburg and Riga in the east, which were run by his sons and nephews. His oldest surviving son, Christian Matthias , took over the company, together with the second oldest son, Anton Diedrich Schröder (1779–1855), and later also became a Hamburg Senator (1821–1859). Another son Johann Heinrich founded the Schroders banking house in London, which still exists today .

Christian Matthias Schröder and his wife were buried on the burial ground of the Nikolaikirche. At the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg , at planquadrat U 21 (south side avenue , east chapel 2) there is a pillow stone for Christian Matthias Schröder next to that of his wife Luise Mutzenbecher.

literature

  • Johann Christian August Grohmann : In Memoriam Viri Amplissimi Christiani Matthiae Schroeder Hamburgensis Reipublicae Magnifici Consulis ... Hamburgi, ... Typis Joannis Augusti Meisneri, Venerabilis Senatus, Gymnasii Et Joannei Typographii 1823
  • Ulrike Kirchberger: Aspects of German-British Expansion: The Overseas Interests of German Migrants in Great Britain in the Middle of the 19th Century. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07439-2 , p. 214 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  • Otto Christian Gaedechens: Hamburg coins and medals. Hamburg: Association for Hamburg History, printed by JA Meissner 1850, p. 69 ( digitized in the Google book search, Schröder's burial coin, with picture and coat of arms)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchberger (lit.), p. 214
  2. ↑ Vaulted grave / crypt from 1814/1821 no longer available - for details see: Eberhard Kändler: 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 , p. 126 (with two historical illustrations p. 59).
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Christian Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg businessman, senator and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Quakenbrück
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1821
Place of death Hamburg