Karl Sarasin

Karl Sarasin monument in front of the St. Alban-Tor after a bust by Ferdinand Schlöth

Karl Sarasin (born April 17, 1815 in Basel ; † January 21, 1886 there ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician from Basel.

Life

Karl Sarasin, 1853

Elisabeth Sarasin-Sauvain (1815–1886), Sarasin's second wife; Printing: Frobenius AG

Karl Sarasin, born in Basel in 1815, attended school up to high school there and then began an apprenticeship in a Basel silk ribbon factory . For several months in a village in the canton of Jura , he learned to make all of the items himself on a loom . In 1837 he and his father founded their own trimmings or ribbon weaving business. Production grew so rapidly that by 1850 he was already operating half a thousand looms and later even doubled that number.

Since 1845 Sarasin was a conservative member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt , from 1856 and until 1875 the Small Council , the government. There he was responsible for the management of public buildings from 1858, later for the medical services. He supported non-profit housing construction and, as chairman of the commission for factory workers established by the Basel non-profit society , demanded the construction of workers' houses after a visit to England . H. Homeownership for workers. His vision was: to turn a nomand into a sedentary citizen, from a proletarian - his own master: to turn someone who feels strange and dependent, into a man who, albeit in a modest way, knows that he is a fellow participant on the surface of the earth [.. ]

Sarasin was on the board of directors of the Basler Mission Society and managed the mission's industrial workshops in India. Jacob Burckhardt gave Arnold Bocklin 1868 contract for Sarasin a garden room of his home in Basel with three frescoes equip. Böcklin asked Rudolf Schick to support him with the execution. The three murals Rast on the Flight to Egypt , King David with the Harp and The Walk to Emmaus , which are now in the Kunstmuseum Basel , were completed within two months .

Karl Sarasin was the son of Karl Sarasin-Heusler (1788–1843), a tobacco and ribbon manufacturer and grandson of Jakob Sarasin (1742–1802), who was descended from a family of Huguenot religious refugees from Lorraine in France, who were very successful in Basel, both politically and commercially many representatives of the Enlightenment and the Sturm und Drang was in contact.

In his first marriage (1840) he was married to Adèle Vischer (1821-1845) and in his second marriage (1850) to Elisabeth Sauvain (1829-1918). Sarasin's son Paul Sarasin (1856–1929), was a naturalist and ethnologist who, together with his relative Fritz Sarasin, undertook extensive research trips to British Ceylon and Celebes . Paul's younger brother Alfred Sarasin-Iselin (1865–1953) was the founder of the private bank of the same name.

Honors

In 1948 a bust monument was erected in the park in front of the St. Albantor in Basel after a marble bust modeled in 1887 by Ferdinand Schlöth and executed by his nephew Achilles Schlöth .

Fonts

Karl Sarasin: From a trip to Italy. In letters. Printed as a manuscript for friends. Schultze, Basel 1867.
Workers 'housing : in: The negotiations of the Bonn conference for the workers' question in June 1870 (No. 949). Verlag Enslin, Berlin 1870. pp. 11-33.

Web links

Family tree of Karl Sarasin In: stroux.org
Hermann Wichers : Karl Sarasin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Karl Sarasin In: old Basel

literature

Rote Fabrik: built by Sarasin for his ribbon production, today Basel Youth Hostel

Hermann Wartmann: Sarasin, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 372 f.
Bernhard C. Schär: love for the tropics. Swiss natural scientist and Dutch imperialism in Southeast Asia around 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50287-8 , pp. 66–78.
Gustaf Adolf Wanner : Karl Sarasin. In: René Teuteberg & Rudolf Suter (ed.): Committed to the Reformation. Designer and design in the city and landscape of Basel from five centuries. Christoph-Merian-Verlag, Basel 1979, pp. 113–117.
Marcel Köppli: Protestant Entrepreneurs in Switzerland in the 19th Century. Christian patriarchalism in the age of industrialization. Theological Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-290-17621-1 , pp. 111–157.
Traugott Geering : Karl Sarasin, councilor (1815–1886) , in: History of the Sarasin Family in Basel Volume 2, Frobenius AG, Basel 1914, pp. 149–241.
Eduard His : Carl Sarasin (-Vischer, -Sauvain) , in: Basler Handelsherren des 19. Century , Benno Schwabe & Co. Verlag, Basel 1929, pp. 117–130.
Nikolaus Meier: Carl Sarasin (-Vischer) -Sauvain (1815–1886): industrial patriarch, politician and client of Arnold Böcklin. In: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History , Volume 47 (1990) Issue 1.
From the correspondence between Joachim Heer and Karl Sarasin In: Yearbook of the Historical Association of the Canton of Glarus Vol. 64, 1973, pp. 54–73

Individual evidence

^ The negotiations of the Bonn Conference on the Workers 'Question in June 1870. Verlag Enslin, Berlin 1870. pp. 11–33, panels 1 + 2. (Sarasin's presentation on the subject of workers' housing , as well as building plans on the two panels.)
↑ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropical love. Swiss naturalists and Dutch imperialism in Southeast Asia around 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50287-8 , pp. 67–69.
↑ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropical love. Swiss natural scientists and Dutch imperialism in Southeast Asia around 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50287-8 , p. 72.
^ Rudolf Riggenbach: 1868, three wall pictures for Karl Sarasin's garden room. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
^ Nikolaus Meier: Carl Sarasin (-Vischer) -Sauvain (1815-1886): industrial patriarch, politician and client of Arnold Böcklin. In: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History , Volume 47 (1990) Issue 1.
↑ Marcel Köppli: Protestant entrepreneurs in Switzerland in the 19th century. Christian patriarchalism in the age of industrialization. Theological Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-290-17621-1 , p. 117
↑ Heinz Balmer : Sarasin, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
↑ Stefan Hess , Tomas Lochman (ed.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891), catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Basel Sculpture Hall. Basel 2004, ISBN 3-905057-20-4 , no.57.2.

personal data
SURNAME	Sarasin, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sarasin-Sauvain, Carl; Sarasin-Vischer-Sauvain, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneurs and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1886
Place of death	Basel

[1] The negotiations of the Bonn Conference on the Workers 'Question in June 1870. Verlag Enslin, Berlin 1870. pp. 11–33, panels 1 + 2. (Sarasin's presentation on the subject of workers' housing , as well as building plans on the two panels.)

[2] Bernhard C. Schär: Tropical love. Swiss naturalists and Dutch imperialism in Southeast Asia around 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50287-8 , pp. 67–69.

[3] Bernhard C. Schär: Tropical love. Swiss natural scientists and Dutch imperialism in Southeast Asia around 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50287-8 , p. 72.

[4] Rudolf Riggenbach: 1868, three wall pictures for Karl Sarasin's garden room. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .

[5] Nikolaus Meier: Carl Sarasin (-Vischer) -Sauvain (1815-1886): industrial patriarch, politician and client of Arnold Böcklin. In: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History , Volume 47 (1990) Issue 1.

[6] Marcel Köppli: Protestant entrepreneurs in Switzerland in the 19th century. Christian patriarchalism in the age of industrialization. Theological Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-290-17621-1 , p. 117

[7] Heinz Balmer : Sarasin, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[8] Stefan Hess , Tomas Lochman (ed.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891), catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Basel Sculpture Hall. Basel 2004, ISBN 3-905057-20-4 , no.57.2.