Gerhard Schaurte

Gerhard Schaurte (born April 8, 1803 in Deutz , † December 28, 1878 in Boppard ) was a German entrepreneur and the penultimate mayor of Deutz.

Life

He was the son of the Deutz entrepreneur Christian Schaurte (1765-1817), since 1811 owner of the Deutz soap factory Schaurte & Co. , and Anna Gertrud Buchholtz (1770-1845). Schaurte married Elisabeth Commans on June 12, 1830 in Deutz (* March 2, 1804 in Deutz; † November 1, 1834 ibid). After her death, he married the second marriage on May 25, 1844 in Steinheim (Westphalia), the illegitimate daughter of the canon Friederike Franziska von Kettler zu Alme (1793–1873), Marie Louise Antonetta Hubertine von Kettler (born August 18, 1823 in Cologne ; † November 1, 1881 in Deutz). The later very well-known restaurateur and hotelier Louis Schaurté (1851–1934) in Berlin comes from this second marriage .

Schaurte took over an administrative position for the first time with his appointment as second deputy of Deutz in 1833. At that time he was described as a “businessman, self-employed u. lives in prosperity, married and two children ” . He actually wanted to retire from the administration of the mayor's office in September 1842 in order to be able to devote himself exclusively to his entrepreneurial tasks, but the local council asked Schaurte, who had meanwhile been promoted to first alderman, to become mayor of Deutz as the successor to Wilhelm Franz Neuhöffer .

On December 21, 1842, Mayor Neuhöffer informed District Administrator Simons that the merchant and “Jewish school director” Christian Schaurte intended to set up general gas lighting in Deutz, “provided that the administration gave him some encouragement” . On January 21, 1843, the government approved the introduction of this gas lighting. As a result, the company founded by the father changed into the Deutz gas works "Christian Schaurte" (1844–1901), owned by Gerhard Schaurte with his brother Christian Tillmann (1806–1856). As a monopoly, the company supplied the luminous gas to the city of Deutz until 1900.

Since January 1843, Schaurte administered the mayor's office before he was appointed temporarily on December 13, 1843 and finally mayor on February 21, 1846. As early as 1844, Schaurte had withdrawn from managing the family business. During debates in the local council about gas lighting, Mayor Schaurte left the presidium to the first deputy as "privately interested" . The new Prussian city ​​and rural community order of 1856 raised Deutz to an urban community. Gerhard Schaurte was also in charge of this until he resigned his office in a letter of March 27, 1867 "because of advanced age and physical ailments". This presumably prevented him from being suspended because he had not been performing his official duties with the necessary care for a long time.

Honors

Schaurtestrasse was named after his nephew, the alderman Theodor Schaurte, in 1911 in Deutz . And the Städtische Realgymnasium, founded in 1908, was renamed the Gymnasium Schaurtestrasse in honor of the once important family .

literature

• Peter Buchholz and Volker Thorey (Red.): Werner Theodor Schaurte , Issue 5, Series 206 of the German Ahnenreihen , in: Publication of the West German Society for Family Studies , Cologne
• Dirk Alexander Reder: The Deutz gas works "Christian Schaurte" In: Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. Yearbook for history and regional studies. Volume 27. Cologne 2001. pp. 249-316.

Notes / individual evidence

1. ↑ Source: Church book duplicate, 1808–1874 Catholic Church of St. Mary in Steinheim ( Höxter district )

Web links

• Dirk Alexander Reder: The Deutz gas works "Christian Schaurte"