Karl Carvacchi

Karl Carvacchi (also Carl Carvachi ; born August 23, 1791 in Braunsberg , † May 10, 1869 in Kassel ) was a German businessman and administrative officer .

Life

Carvacchi studied mathematics and architecture at the University of Königsberg . In 1810 he joined the Kingdom of Westphalia as an attaché to the building management . After its dissolution, he lived as a private citizen before he became a member of the merchants' guild in Kassel in 1816. In 1815 he founded a paint factory and a peat digger, for which he was awarded the Great Gold Medal by Elector Wilhelm I. He also established himself as a member of the opposition Schönfeld Circle under the leadership of Auguste von Prussia .

Carvacchi was the elector's best man in 1831. In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, on the one hand he studied technology and the state economy and on the other hand he dealt with archeology , early and medieval history. In 1831, he wrote and initially published anonymously: Considerations on the rest of the course and the current state of Germany's commercial affairs in relation to the Electorate of Hesse . In 1832, he was then employed as a tax adviser at the head tax office in Kassel.

Carvacchi was seconded to the Zollverein in Münster in 1833 . He stayed there when the German Customs Union was founded . He was promoted to senior tax council in 1833, senior tax council in 1834, and in 1855 senior tax council. Until his retirement in 1865, he was the Hessian customs union representative in Münster. In Münster as in Hessen-Kassel he was also a member of several historical associations and created a collection of finds, partly as a Carvacchic collection at the Association for Hessian History and Archeology and partly at the Association for Research into Rhenish History in Mainz remained.

He maintained a close relationship with the writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . From that he was considered a bibliophile .

Honors

• 1819 Large gold medal of merit from Elector Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel
• 1836 Order of the Red Eagle III. class
• 1857 Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class
• 1865 Prussian Royal Crown Order, 2nd class
• Honorary member of the Association for Research into Rhenish History in Mainz

Works (selection)

• Considerations on the rest of the course and the current state of Germany's commercial affairs in relation to Kurhessen , 1831.
• Biographical memories of Johann Georg Hamann, the Magus in the north. Regensberg, Münster 1855.

literature

• Ernst Raßmann:  Carvacchi, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 38 f.
• Marko Kreutzmann: The higher officials of the German Customs Union: A bureaucratic functional elite between national interests and interstate integration (1834–1871) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, p. 245 f.

Web links

• Carvacchi, Karl on CERL Thesaurus