Heinrich Andreas de Cuvry

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Heinrich Andreas de Cuvry; Portrait of Julius Schrader (1850)

Heinrich Andreas de Cuvry (born May 30, 1785 in Berlin ; † October 21, 1869 there ) was a local politician and lawyer .

Cuvry - his birth name was Henri André de Cuvry - was of French origin , his great-grandfather Pierre de Cuvry came from Metz . His parents were Pierre de Cuvry (1759–1791) and Louise Madelaine nee. Audibert. He was married to Marie Jeanne Emilie geb. Humbert (1795–1863), the marriage had three children: Henri Adolphe Richard (1819–1892), Marie Emilie Elisabeth (1826–1904) and Henri Guillaume Ernest Paul (* 1829). He belonged to the French Reformed Church .

From 1812 Cuvry was a trainee lawyer at the Berlin Court of Appeal , in 1813 he volunteered in the Wars of Liberation . He made a name for himself as a long-time member and later as chairman of the directorate of the poor welfare of the Berlin magistrate , after the government-controlled and essentially also financed poor authority from January 1, 1820 according to the city code of the magistrate of Berlin (which he was from 1814 to 1850 belonged to). On September 27, 1850, he was awarded the title of City Elder of Berlin for his community work .

In 1825 he acquired the Bartholdi dairy , whose land extended to the Cöpenicker Feld outside the city wall between the Spree , Lohmühlengraben, Landwehrgraben and today's Falckensteinstrasse. The buildings were in the area of ​​Schlesische Strasse 17-22. Cuvry's "Herrenhaus" was built at Schlesische Straße 15, a building described as elegant on the site of today's Lido . In 1827 he began to sell parts of his extensive property again, including to the coppersmith Carl Justus Heckmann , who built a brass rolling mill on what would later be Taborstrasse . He parceled out the rest of the area and had apartment houses built on the newly created streets. One of the streets laid out there received his name on August 8, 1858 during his lifetime.

Naming

Cuvrystraße and Cuvryufer on a city map from 1902

Streets:

  • Cuvrystraße , in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . The common pronunciation "Kufristraße" no longer corresponds to the pronunciation of the family name Cuvry [ kʏvrˈi ].
  • Cuvry-Ufer (from November 6, 1849 until after 1920) along the Oberschleuse between Spree and Schlesischer Straße.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henri André DE CUVRY at http://gedbas.genealogy.net , accessed on August 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Cuvry, Heinrich Andreas (Henri André) de at luise-berlin.de, accessed on August 29, 2014
  3. ^ A b c Emil Galli: Görlitzer Bahnhof Görlitzer Park . Support, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-927869-09-0 , pp. 53 ff .
  4. ↑ a b Von der Bartholdische Meierei zum Wrangelkietz (pdf) from the Association for the History of Berlin, accessed on August 29, 2014
  5. ↑ Schlesische Straße at morgenpost.de from April 21, 2011, accessed on August 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Cuvry, Heinrich Andreas de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cuvry, Henri André de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1869
Place of death Berlin