Karl Maquet

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Entrepreneur in Magdeburg (Germany)

Karl Maquet (born October 8, 1767 in Magdeburg , † December 16, 1823 in Magdeburg) was a German merchant , entrepreneur and long-time presbyter of the French Reformed Church in Magdeburg .

Life

Karl (mostly referred to as Charles) Maquet was the son of Huguenot descendants and a citizen of the French colony in Magdeburg , the master watchmaker David Maquet (* 1728– † around 1770) and Marie Roux (* 1739– † 1801), the daughter of the merchant and wool combiner Hercule Roux (* 1701; † 1757). Because of the early death of his father, he grew up from the age of four as the stepson of the entrepreneur and later mayor of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg, Johann Caspar Coqui . Maquet was married to Karoline Philippine Dohlhoff (born December 19, 1775 - November 17, 1830), a daughter of the mayor of the Palatinate colony Georg Philipp Dohlhoff . Known from the marriage are three sons who all became entrepreneurs and a daughter who was married to the entrepreneur and city ​​councilor Ernst August Gaertner . The eldest son Louis Friedrich Maquet was a banker , the next one, August Karl Maquet, owned a vinegar factory in Magdeburg, later he founded the Maquet & Krüger sugar refinery; the youngest son Henri Maquet was a domain tenant .

Economic activities

The maquets came to Magdeburg in 1690 as cloth makers from Leyden (today Leiden ) in the Netherlands . Until the middle of the 18th century, they operated various small businesses. After that, caused and promoted by industrial development, their activities shifted more and more to wholesale and banking. For Karl Maquet, like his brother Ludewig David Maquet, there was a joint business with his stepfather Johann Caspar Coqui at the beginning of his commercial career, which is known from court records. He later ran a wholesale and retail business on the property at Tischlerbrücke 29/30. Here his son-in-law Ernst August Gaertner was his business partner and successor. Among other things, Maquet is mentioned in a listing of the merchants of the former French colony from 1817. But Karl Maquet was also active in the banking industry ; this part of the business later fell as an inheritance to his eldest son Louis Friedrich Maquet. Another son of Karl Maquet, August Karl ran a vinegar factory , later the sugar factory "Maquet & Krüger", which existed until 1900 under the name "August Karl Maquet".

Church and social engagement

Maquet got involved in the French Reformed parish of Magdeburg from an early age. There he was elected presbyter (ancien). Since the end of the 18th century, this honorary position in the Reformed parish has no longer been changed annually, but the elected, in some cases, retained their office for decades. Her tasks in the social area required a lot of life experience. They also took care of the colony school, the French orphanage and a hospital . During Maquet's time, a new church was built (1805/6) to replace the historic temple that burned down in 1804. Up until the 18th century, preachers , officers and dignitaries of the community were buried in the historical, medieval vault of the temple .

Honor

It speaks for the appreciation of the person and the merits of Karl Maquet for the French Reformed Congregation that both he himself and his wife Karoline Philippine Dohlhoff, who died seven years after him, found their final resting place in this crypt of the French Reformed temple , although burials there had been hired years earlier.

literature

  • Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg (= Magdeburg cultural and economic life, No. 22). Magdeburg 1942
  • Eduard Muret: History of the French colony in Brandenburg-Prussia. Büxenstein, Berlin 1885; Reprint: Scherer, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-89433-161-5 . ( Digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • Rolf Straubel : merchants and manufacturing entrepreneurs (= quarterly for social and economic history. Supplements, No. 122). F. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-515-06714-0
  • Henri Tollin: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Publishing house Niemeyer, Halle, 1887.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony in Magdeburg (= Magdeburg cultural and economic life, No. 22). Magdeburg 1942, p. 160.
personal data
SURNAME Maquet, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maquet, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, entrepreneur and long-time presbyter of the French Reformed Church in Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1823
Place of death Magdeburg