Eduard Karcher
Caspar Heinrich Eduard Richard Karcher (born February 26, 1818 in Saarbrücken ; † April 11, 1895 ibid) was a German entrepreneur, politician , owner of the Karcher and Westermann ironworks in Ars on the Moselle and landowner .
Life
Eduard Karcher was the eldest son of the Saarbrücken commercial councilor and businessman Philipp Heinrich Karcher from his marriage to Maria Carolina Böcking.
Karcher owned the Forbacherhof near Neunkirchen (Saar) , which he ran from 1850 until his death. Karcher was involved in founding the Cristallerie Wadgassen in 1843 with Nicolas Villeroy and Jean-François Boch . He also took a stake in the color goods company Karcher und Westermann in Metz , which founded a tin goods factory in Ars on the Moselle in 1847 . In 1853 the company was expanded into an ironworks with its own ore mines, a puddle steel plant, iron foundry and wire drawing shop. The ironworks later ran into financial difficulties and Karcher filed for bankruptcy in 1888.
Karcher was the commander of a vigilante battalion in Saarbrücken in 1848/49. In 1859 he helped found the National Association in Saarbrücken and in the same year was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the German Progressive Party in the Ottweiler constituency and was in strict opposition to Otto von Bismarck's policies . In 1862/63 he was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the Saarbrücken Chamber of Commerce . He turned down the proposed presidency in 1864 in favor of Ferdinand Schlachter . In 1871 he resigned from the Chamber of Commerce, in 1875 resigned the chairmanship of the Masonic lodge for strength and beauty in Saarbrücken and later lived mostly on his Forbacherhof estate.
The son and successor Paul Karcher and three daughters came from Eduard Karcher's first marriage to Elise Natalie Korn in 1845, and a daughter from his second marriage to Eleonora Catharina Carolina Hölterhoff in 1856.
literature
- Fritz Hellwig : Karcher, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 144 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Georges E. Karcher and Fritz Kirchner: The Karcher family from Saarland , Saarbrücken 1979, ISBN 3-931519-19-8 .
Web links
- Eduard Karcher on Saarland-Biografien.de
- Lineage E. Karcher on GeneaNet (last accessed March 1, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karcher, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karcher, Caspar Heinrich Eduard Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, politician and landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1895 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |