Emanuel August Merck

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Emanuel August Merck, around 1885
Emanuel August Merck with his brother Willy (left), around 1875

Emanuel August Merck (born July 30, 1855 in Darmstadt ; † February 26, 1923 ) was a German chemist , pharmacist and entrepreneur.

Life

The signature of Emanuel Merck
his signature as part of brand names

Emanuel August Merck was the son of Georg Franz Merck and his wife Anna, nee Schenck. After finishing school, Merck first went to Bad Nauheim to train as a pharmacy. He passed the assistant examination in 1875. He then worked as a pharmacy assistant in Geneva and Würzburg , among others , as well as in his father's Engel pharmacy. He then began studying pharmacy in Strasbourg and later in Würzburg . In Würzburg he also got the pharmaceutical state examination. He then studied in Freiburg still chemistry . In 1883 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In the same year he took over the Engel pharmacy and became a partner in E. Merck , a business association. From 1901 to 1906 he was the first chairman of the Association of German Chemists (today: Society of German Chemists , GDCh) and was one of the founding members of the association. Merck was awarded the title of Privy Medical Councilor. Under his leadership, the number of Merck employees rose from around 250 to 4,000.

Emanuel Merck's signature was registered as a word mark in 1912 and used as a trademark until around 1924 .

Emanuel August Merck was married to Elisabeth "Els", née Rieger (1864–1909) from Darmstadt. His wife was a daughter of the theologian and Germanist Maximilian Rieger , who was a great-nephew of the playwright Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and a student of the classical philologist Christian Ludwig Boßler .

Both had four children together: Elisabeth (1886–1964), Georg (1887–1945), Fritz (1899–1969) and Anna Luise (1892–1974). Through her great, great, grandmother Anna Barbara Boßler, "Els" Merck nee. Rieger has a genealogical connection to the Boßler family .

Emanuel August Merck was a member of the Teutonia Würzburg Landsmannschaft . He also founded the Merck family magazine in 1913.

Honors

Merck received honorary doctorates from the University of Gießen (1918) and the TH Darmstadt .

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 259.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 583.
  • G. Schwedt: Liebig and his students: the new school of chemistry. Verlag Springer, 2002, ISBN 3-540-43205-1 , p. 17f. limited preview in Google Book search
  • Obituary. In: Angewandte Chemie 36, 1923, p. 136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The brand through the ages. ( Memento of November 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Merck KGaA Corporate Communications (publisher)
  2. ^ Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Karl Esselborn , Georg Lehnert: Hessian biographies . Ed .: Herman Haupt . Unchanged reprint of the 1934 edition. Volume 3 . Sendet Verlag oHG, Walluf near Wiesbaden 1973, ISBN 3-500-26830-7 , p. 113 .
  4. ↑ Marcel Boßler: The famous Sturm und Drang poet Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger from Frankfurt with clear Odenwald roots . In: Hessian Family History Association e. V. (Hrsg.): Hessische Genealogie . Volume 3, Issue 2, 2020, ISSN  2626-0220 , p. 28 .
  5. ^ M. Koch and C. Merck: The Carl Merck Library. Verlag Gesellschaft d. Book Friends, 1964, p. 51.
  6. ↑ Landsmannschaft Teutonia Würzburg. ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.teutonia-wuerzburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Merck, Emanuel August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1923