Paul Karcher

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Replica of the animal fountain donated by Paul Karcher

Philipp Heinrich Paul Eduard Karcher (born January 14, 1846 in Saarbrücken , † December 27, 1912 in Iserlohn ) was a German cavalry master and landowner and manager of the Karcher and Westermann ironworks in Ars on the Moselle and mayor there.

Life

Paul Karcher was the only son of the Saarbrücker Kommerzienrat, entrepreneur and politician Eduard Karcher from his first marriage to Elise Natalie Korn. The Rittmeister of the Landwehr Paul Karcher inherited the estate "Forbacherhof" near Neunkirchen . On March 2, 1899, he had the name of the estate changed to "Haus Furpach" to avoid confusion with the town of Forbach, 30 km away . In 1904 he sold the estate to the community of Neunkirchen for 250,000 marks . From 1936 a housing estate under the name Haus Furpach was built in several construction phases on the property belonging to the estate, and since 1975 Furpach .

In 1905 Karcher donated an animal fountain on the Upper Market in Neunkirchen. The horse trough was initially on the corner of Oberer Markt and Kriershof. In 1936 the fountain was relocated to the Scheibstrasse green area without any function and was to be used for the war-related meltdown in 1942. However, it ended up at a scrap dealer in Offenbach. On June 20, 2005, a replica of the “Karcher Animal Fountain” was set up by a sponsorship group on the Upper Market, about 200 meters from the old location.

No children are known from Paul Karcher's marriage to Friederike Wilhelmina Ida Clara von Waldow in 1884. Karcherstrasse in Furpach is dedicated to Paul Karcher and his family. A community hall at the former estate was also named after the family.

literature

  • Georges E. Karcher and Fritz Kirchner: The Karcher family from Saarland , Saarbrücken 1979, ISBN 3-931519-19-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Karcher. Saarland-Biografien.de, accessed on December 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Armin Schlicker: Street Lexicon Neunkirchen. Streets, squares and bridges in the past and present . Published by Historischer Verein Stadt Neunkirchen eV Neunkirchen 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-027592-0 . P. 231
  3. ↑ A well triggers detective work. Saarbrücker Zeitung , June 5, 2011, accessed on December 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Karcher, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karcher, Philipp Heinrich Paul Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain, landowner, ironworks manager and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1912
Place of death Iserlohn