Ferdinand Karkutsch

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Ferdinand August Ludwig Karkutsch (born November 21, 1813 in Köslin , † September 26, 1891 in Stettin ) was a German businessman, social activist and philanthropist.

Life

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars , the Karkutsch family moved to Stettin. Ferdinand took over his father's business and became a dealer in seeds and grain. He enjoyed a high social reputation, which he emphasized through numerous donations and transfers to various funds.

Ferdinand Karkutsch had no offspring. A year before his death, he decided to donate most of his fortune for social purposes in Szczecin and his hometown Köslin. Funds of 300,000 marks each were used for the construction of the Stettin City Museum on the Hakenterrasse (opened in 1913) and for the construction of the lung hospital in Hohenkrug near Stettin (opened in 1915).

Köslin received 400,000 marks, which were used to build a home for the elderly and to establish the Karkutsch Foundation, which ran it. In 1891 Ferdinand Karkutsch received the title of honorary citizen of Köslin. After his death, the street on which the old people's home was built was named after him. After 1945 it was named ul. Krakusa i Wandy and the building is now the District Police Headquarters.

Karkutsch died in Stettin and was buried in the Nemitz cemetery (until it was closed and converted into a park in 1974: Cmentarz Niemierzyński ) in Niebuszewo (formerly Zabelsdorf ). A memorial stone erected in his honor no longer exists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Köslin honorary citizen
  2. ↑ Muzeum w Koszalinie: Honorowi obywatele Koszalina w Niemczech, przed 1945. muzeum.koszalin.pl, February 19, 2017, accessed on October 28, 2019 (Polish).
  3. ↑ Ilse Gudden-Lüddeke: Chronicle of the City of Stettin . Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1993, p. 466.
  4. ↑ Muzeum Koszalin, Honorowi obywatele Koszalina w Niemczech, przed 1945
personal data
SURNAME Karkutsch, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karkutsch, Ferdinand August Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, social activist and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Koslin
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1891
Place of death Szczecin