Christian Matthias Schröder (politician, 1778)

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Christian Matthias Schröder (born January 27, 1778 in Hamburg ; † January 25, 1860 there ) was a Hanseatic merchant and Hamburg senator .

Life

Christian Matthias Schröder was the eldest son of Christian Matthias Schröder and took over from him, together with his next younger brother Anton Diedrich Schröder (1779–1855), the trading company Christ in 1807 . Matthias Schröder & Co. His younger brother Johann Heinrich founded the J. Henry Schröder & Co. company in London around the same time .

Cushion stone for Christian Matthias Schröder, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Six months after the death of his father, Schröder was co-opted into the Hamburg town hall on December 28, 1821 . In the 1840s, Schröder took up the plan of Hamburg Syndic Karl Sieveking to found a colony in Brazil . Together with several other merchants, he founded the Colonization Association from 1849 in Hamburg . It was a good thing that one of Schröder's son was Hanseatic consul in Rio de Janeiro and was able to support the project. The association was able to buy land from François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville and his wife Franziska Caroline of Portugal . The colony Colônia Dona Francisca (now Joinville ) , which was successfully founded by 17 settlers in 1850, was named in their honor . A village of the colony was called later to Schroeder's honor Schrödersort and today's Schroeder . In 1860, 2885 people lived in the Colônia Dona Francisca. Today the former colony is incorporated into Joinville .

As a result of the economic crisis of 1857 , the Christ trading house also collapsed. Matthias Schröder & Co. together in 1858. Schröder went bankrupt, as a result of which he had to leave the council. The council issued a declaration of honor for him, he continued to receive the full salary and was allowed to continue to use the title of Senator. Frédéric de Chapeaurouge was elected to his successor on May 5, 1858.

The Mayor of Hamburg, Carl August Schröder, was a grandson of Christian Matthias Schröder.

At Planquadrat U 21 (south of Nebenallee , east of Chapel 2) in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery there is a pillow stone for Christian Matthias Schröder between those of his first and second wife.

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  1. ↑ German Gender Book , Volume 128, 1962; P. 189
  2. ↑ Richard Roberts: Schroders. Merchants & Bankers. Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 1992, ISBN 0-333-44511-2 , p. 18
  3. ^ Percy Ernst Schramm : Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German "Cultural History" in the light of the fate of a Hamburg bourgeois family (1648–1948) . Volume I and II, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963/64; Volume 2, page 186
  4. ↑ German Gender Book , Volume 128, 1962; P. 194
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Christian Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg senator and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1860
Place of death Hamburg