Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Schütze
Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Schütze (born February 24, 1778 in Meißen , † May 14, 1860 in Dresden ) was a merchant , manor owner and member of the Saxon state parliament .
origin
Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Schütze was born as the 7th child of Johann Karl Schütze (1733–1799), miniature painter at the Meissen porcelain factory , and Christiane Friedericke Schütze née Rothe (1743-). Of the 11 children in the family, four died at childhood, making him the youngest child in the family. In September 1802 he met Miss Elizabeth James in London and married her on March 12, 1803. The fifty-four year marriage remained childless.
education
At the age of six he received lessons from a private tutor Richter. Even at this age he had a good grasp of arithmetic. Shortly thereafter, he entered the city school as an extra (external). In 1789 his parents decided that he should go to university and he went to the Princely School in Meissen. He left this in 1796 with a good certificate.
Career
In 1796 he found a job with his brother Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Schütze in Leipzig . Since he did not want to be subjected to any kind of constraint, he decided to move into the big wide world.
United States of America
In 1796 he traveled to Hamburg via Berlin , where he was accepted into a Masonic lodge at the Royal York Grand Lodge . From there he sailed to Philadelphia , where he landed on October 29, 1796. He turned to the Hamburg-born Henry Andrew Heins, owner of one of the most important trading houses in the city at the time, about his accommodation. Heins employed him in his company and soon afterwards entrusted him to represent the company.
On May 31, 1798 he left American soil to return to Hamburg. He said goodbye to his friends soon to return, but fate would have it that it would be a goodbye forever.
Great Britain
After a short stay in Meissen with his family, he left for London on November 8, 1798. Since business was bad, he felt compelled to withdraw money from his brother in Leipzig from time to time, with whom he had deposited his savings. In 1799, however, several bankruptcies in Leipzig's trading stalls led his brother to stop making payments. Since he had lost the fortune he had acquired in America, he looked for a job and found it in April 1800 at the Perrin, Rochaz and Comp.
On July 1, 1802, he founded the trading house Schütze, Röhrs and Comp with his friend and later brother-in-law . Business was going well, but as a German merchant he did not have the same rights as the British, he decided to acquire the indigenous property. This was confirmed on March 25, 1803 by royal sanction .
With the occupation of Germany by Napoleon , his business with the island of Helgoland flourished . In order to continue to travel to Germany as a British citizen without any problems, he acquired Hamburg citizenship on August 26, 1807 .
Russia
The trade barriers imposed by Napoleon on the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas prompted him to go to Russia. He reached Saint Petersburg on June 18, 1812 via Stockholm and Finland . He had quickly made contacts with the leading trading houses and business was doing well. On May 28, 1813, he left Russia and went to Berlin.
Saxony
On May 20, 1817, without having seen it beforehand, he bought the Schweta manor . At the end of April 1818 he returned to London once more to get his business in order. He decided to move to Saxony. He and his wife moved into an apartment in Dresden. On June 6, 1820 he was elected to the Saxon estates by 40 members of the Meissen knighthood . With that began his political career. In 1833/34 he was a representative of the manor owners of the Meissen district of the II. Chamber of the Saxon state parliament . On March 31, 1856 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Meissen.
Due to the events of 1848 he slowly withdrew from public life and died on May 14, 1860 at 3 p.m. at the age of 82. His body was buried next to his wife in the family crypt in Schweta on May 17th.
Foundations
- Meissen Orphan Association
- Foundation for the procurement of healthy and cheap apartments for poor families in Meissen
- Association advice and action in Meissen
- Schützsche Foundation for secondary school students in Meissen
literature
- Karl August Georgi: Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Schütze on Schweta: a picture of his life, according to his own verbal and written reports. Leipzig 1861
- Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon: General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. Vol. 9, Leipzig 1827, page 909
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Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sagittarius, Karl Heinrich Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon merchant, manor owner and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1778 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1860 |
| Place of death | Dresden |