Karl von Schlözer
Karl von Schlözer (born December 28, 1780 in Göttingen , † February 13, 1859 in Lübeck ) was a Russian consul and merchant in Lübeck.
biography
Karl Schlözer (after being awarded the Russian hereditary nobility to his father Karl von Schlözer in 1804 ) was the youngest son of August Ludwig von Schlözer and his wife Caroline Friederike von Schlözer . His sister, Dorothea (von) Schlözer , was the first woman in Germany to receive the title of Dr. phil. at the University of Göttingen .
He attended a school in Eisleben and in 1795 switched to a high school in Göttingen. A year later he was sent to the grammar school in Gotha by his father, who had decided to turn him into a learned businessman .
On September 29, 1797, his sister Dorothea, who was ten years older than him, completed an apprenticeship as a businessman in Lübeck. His teacher is the businessman Jacob Behrens, a former accountant for Mattheus Rodde , who was Karl's brother-in-law as Dorothea's husband. He stayed here for five years; from 1806 he is an independent businessman in Lübeck.
A trip to the Baltic States and St. Petersburg from spring to November 1806 gave him good contacts with Russian business people, so that in 1810 he bought the house at Breite Strasse No. 792 (according to French counting, today No. 45) in downtown Lübeck could buy.
On July 1, 1807, he married Friederike geb. Platzmann (July 1, 1787 - September 28, 1873), a daughter of Conrad Platzmann . The children of the marriage were Nestor (1808–1899) Russian State Councilor, Friederike (1814–1895) married to Maximilian Winckler, Cäcilie (1820–1904) married to Theodor Curtius , Mayor of Lübeck, and Kurd (1822–1894) Prussian envoy at the Vatican, unmarried.
Towards the end of Lübeck's French era , Schlözer and his family had to flee the city. He first went to Eutin , then to Berlin and was able to return at the end of 1813.
Von Schlözer held the title of Russian Consul since 1810 and became Imperial Russian Consul General in 1834 . He rejects an election proposed to him in the Lübeck Senate.
In 1829 he was the driving force on the western side of the opening of the steamship line between Lübeck and St. Petersburg by Ludwig Stieglitz , which was very successful up to the opening of the Berlin-Szczecin Railway in 1843 and the subsequent relocation of the trade route.
In 1838 he was entered in the Universal Lexicon des Concerts as a composer and pianoforte player. In the 1820s he composed rondos, fantasies, chants and songs to works by Klopstock and Goethe . In 1842 he published settings of poems by Emanuel Geibel . His setting of Goethe's Erlkönig was most widespread .
As a successful merchant, he became prosperous and acquired four parcels of land in the Israelsdorfer Feldmark (Lübeck) from 1845 to 1850 and established a farm there. In 1845 he asked the Lübeck finance department to be allowed to call this property Carlshof . A short time later he corrected himself and asked for the name to be changed to Karlshof . This is the name given to the property in the Lübeck city register. In 1853 he sold the farm, which fell to the city of Lübeck in 1898 and was leased from there. From this settlement core, as part of the settlement movement, the Lübeck city district of the same name emerged from 1920 .
In the last years of his life, Schlözer dealt with historical studies of music, Lübeck's trade with Novgorod and family history. He donated the Schlözer monument , a handcrafted cupboard with writings from his father and sister , to the Lübeck city library .
Awards
- Imperial Russian Vladimir Medal, 1814
- Imperial Russian Order of Saint Anne , 2nd Class, 1817
- Imperial Russian Order of Saint Vladimir , 4th Class, 1827
- Commander's Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , 1836
- Honorary doctorate from the Law Faculty of the University of Göttingen, 1857
Works
- Drey poems by E. Geibel : Op. 18; No 11 of the vocal pieces set to music with piano accompaniment. Lübeck: Borchers 1842
- Hans Rothe (ed.): Petersburger Letters: to three Tsarist courts, 1835–1836, 1857–1862, 1886. Karl sen. - Kurd - Karl jun. from Schlözer. Langen Müller, Munich 1997 (German Library of the East) ISBN 3-7844-2680-8
literature
- Friedrich Hassenstein: Schlözer, Karl von. In: Alken Bruns (Ed.): Lübeck resumes. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , pp. 324-346
- Liselotte J. Eberhard: Dorothea Schlözer. Lübeck 1995 (Small booklets on the city's history, No. 12)
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl von Schlözer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bio and picture from the holdings of the Schloezeriana collection of the SUB Göttingen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlözer, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlözer, Karl (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1859 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |