Jean Jacques Fasquel

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Jean Jacques Fesquel (* probably April 22, 1805 ; † 1866 in Berlin ) was a descendant of a Huguenot family who became rich in old Berlin in the 19th century . He donated a large part of the profits to the city of Berlin in 1864 for the construction of the first city hospital , but set a deadline for the start of construction. The city administration set up a building commission, on whose behalf the master builders Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden worked out building plans and directed the construction work on what would later become the hospital in Friedrichshain . The first part of the hospital was inaugurated in 1874.

Plaque

A marble plaque in the passage of the former main entrance on Max-Fetting-Platz commemorates the donor .

Life

JJ Fasquel was either a master baker or a reindeer in Berlin. In 1861, two people with the surname "Fasquel" appear in the address book, both of whom are house owners: in Münzstrasse and Krausenstrasse.

In 1864, when the foundation was established, the address book kept the baker Fasquel at Krausenstrasse 76 with the abbreviated first name "L.", who is no longer a donor. So it seems likely that the reindeer J. Fasquel , now Blumenstrasse 74, was the financier for the hospital construction.

He gave the city of Berlin a sum of 50,000 thalers , which was high for the time, on the condition that "the construction of a hospital will begin by December 31, 1868." However, the terms of the donation included the treatment of mentally ill and venereal diseases , smallpox - and Cholera sufferers and women who have recently given birth , and an operating theater should not be built.

The magistrate decided on December 28, 1867 to build the first city hospital and commissioned the well-known builders Gropius and Schmieden to draw up plans and manage the construction. However, the final completion of the facility took until October 1874. Property matters had an influence on the hesitant construction, because the planned location required a part of the park on Landsberger Chaussee to be separated and to compensate for the area. On the other hand, the new hygiene rules for hospitals that Rudolf Virchow has just represented and called for (no longer just a simple stringing together of barracks and not only geared towards care, but also towards natural healing) led to lengthy preparatory work for the necessary infrastructure. Most likely, Fasquel drew the planners' attention to the proven pavilion structure in Paris using the example of the Hôpital Lariboisière ; he seems to have had massive health problems himself and probably wanted to see the start of construction.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fasquel . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungsanzeiger für Berlin, Charlottenburg und Umgebung , 1840, I, S. 90 (under "Fasquel, J." in the address book of the year 1840 are a baker (Krausenstrasse 76) and two rentiers (Charlottenstrasse 17; Münzstrasse 29/30) shown as homeowner in old Berlin).
  2. ↑ Krausenstrasse 76> Fasquel; Baker (without first name) . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1861, 1 (Fasquel is here marked as the house owner.). Münzstrasse 29> Fasquel; Reindeer (no first name) . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1861, 1, p. 111 (Fasquel is also the house owner here.).
  3. ↑ Fasquel . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1864, I (If there is no mistake in the first name on the plaque, all "Fasquel" with "AJ" or "JF" are not the benefactors sought.).
  4. ^ In the 1868 address book - the compilation and printing took up to two years - a reindeer widow is named Fasquel.
  5. ↑ Friedrichshain Hospital Monument; Landsberger Allee at the corner of Virchowstrasse ; Footnote 4.
  6. ↑ Memorial plaques in Berlin , accessed on February 5, 2018.
  7. ↑ Friedrichshain hospital building file in the Berlin State Archives.
  8. ↑ Book Hospital History Today , p. 163.
personal data
SURNAME Fasquel, Jean Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fesquel, Jean Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Descendant of a Huguenot family
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: April 22, 1805
DATE OF DEATH 1866
Place of death Berlin