Hugo Schuchard

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Heinrich Lauenstein : Portrait Hugo Schuchard , oil on linen, 1889
Adolf Erbslöh : Portrait Luise Schuchard , oil on wood, 1926

Hugo Julius Schuchard (born February 10, 1825 in Barmen , † December 18, 1886 in Calenberg ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur .

Life

education and profession

Hugo grew up as one of 11 children of the textile manufacturer , businessman and member of the state parliament Johannes Schuchard (1782–1855) and his wife Amalia Friederica Koelver (1793–1865) in Barmen (today a district of Wuppertal ). He completed a commercial apprenticeship in Brussels and then worked for a short time in his father's textile manufacture and textile trade. In September 1849 he emigrated to Chile . Together with the lawyer, businessman and Belgian consul Jules Armand Grisar (1830-1889) he founded the trading house Hugo Schuchard & Jules Grisar there in 1852, with offices in Valparaiso and Paris . This company deals with the import of European goods and developed into the largest company in Valparaiso. In 1861 he returned permanently to Europe, where he lived partly while traveling, partly with his mother and after her death in 1865 took over his parents' house in Dörnen . In 1868, the partners Schuchard and Grisar sold their business and settled as wealthy merchants in the Rhine Province . Grisar moved to the Villa Domini, Koblenzer Straße, in Bonn and later to the Villa Drachenstein , which he had extensively renovated in 1876. Hugo Schuchard made a particular contribution to the Barmer Hospital , which he headed for years and to which he made significant donations.

Calenberg Castle

Hugo Schuchard acquired the historic Calenberg Castle near Warburg in 1868, along with an associated large farm. At that time the farm buildings were still near the medieval castle. He had these buildings demolished, with the exception of a house set up as official apartments, and from 1869 a new manor, which he called Neu Calenberg , was built in the field. He left the management of the farm to his older brother Otto Schuchard (1819–1889). In 1873 the Wettesingen manor was also acquired.

Between 1880 and 1884 he had Calenberg Castle restored and completely rebuilt as a fairytale castle by the Cologne architect Heinrich Wiethase in the spirit of castle romance . The two main parts were connected by an intermediate building. To facilitate traffic, a massive stair tower with a peculiar walkway was added, from which one has a wide panoramic view of the entire area. They had the rest of the area east of the castle designed as a landscape park, in which a forester's house and a water tower were built in 1883 . The slopes of the hill have been planted with trees.

family

J. Scheim: Mausoleum of the Schuchard family . One of several design drawings, which, however, do not faithfully reproduce the building that was built later. 1886 (private property)

On May 16, 1871 Hugo married a daughter of the Barmer factory owner Carl August Erbslöh , Luise Erbslöh (1849–1927). He had 4 children with her: Elisabeth (1873–1947), Hugo (1879–1969), Adeline (Addy) Clara (1880–1974) and Paula (1882–1975). In 1876 Hugo's niece, Johanna Schuchard (1855-1918), married a cousin of his wife Luise, the Eisenach factory owner Albert Erbslöh (1848-1912 ), on Neu-Calenberg and in 1907 Hugo's and Luise's daughter Adeline married their second cousin, the Painter Adolf Erbslöh , who, like her, descended from the Barmer merchant Johann Arnold Erbslöh (1764–1834). Another nephew of Hugo was the painter Felix Schuchard .

Hugo Schuchard died two years after the castle redesign was completed and was initially buried in the Unterbarmer cemetery . The body was later transferred to Calenberg, where his widow Luise had an imposing mausoleum built , which is now a listed building. She only lived in her property in Barmen during the winter months and spent the rest of the time at Calenberg Castle.

literature

  • Alexander Schuchard, Alfred Schuchard, Carl vom Berg jr .: Johannes Schuchard, Barmen. 1782-1855. His ancestors and descendants. Philipp Kühner, Eisenach 1904
  • Andreas Erbslöh: Family Association Julius Erbslöh. A journey through time. Self-published, Hannover 2014, ISBN 978-3-925658-22-8
  • Diethard Erbslöh: Family tree of the Carl Julius Erbslöh and Carl August Erbslöh families , self-published, 1999
  • Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Warburg district. Münster 1939, p. 228 ff
  • Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Hanseatic City of Warburg (Hrsg.): City of Warburg (=  monuments in Westphalia . Volume 1.1 ). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0239-3 . P. 367 ff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Schuchard, p. 17
  2. ^ Rolf Engelsing: On the social history of German middle and lower classes , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, May 12, 1978, p. 60
  3. ↑ Alexander Schuchard, p. 22
  4. ↑ Alexander Schuchard, p. 21 f.
  5. ↑ Hugo Schuchard at worldconnect.rootsweb.com, accessed on September 18, 2019
  6. ↑ Andreas Erbslöh, p. 36
  7. ↑ Alexander Schuchard, p. 23
  8. ↑ Alexander Schuchard, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Schuchard, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuchard, Hugo Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1886
Place of death Calenberg