Philipp Schwartz (Mayor)

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Philipp Schwartz (* around 1680 in Zweibrücken , Palatinate ; † November 10, 1747 in Magdeburg ) was a German tobacco dealer and mayor of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg. The Schwartz family provided many mayors of the Palatinate Colony of Magdeburg and was active in many industries .

Life

When the French invaded the Palatinate in 1688 as part of the War of the Palatinate Succession , the Councilman Isaak Schwartz from Zweibrücken moved with his family to Brandenburg an der Havel . In his new homeland he gained respect and among other things became inspector of the reformed community in the new town of Brandenburg .

Isaac's son Philipp Schwartz moved from Brandenburg to Magdeburg around 1700 and opened a tobacco shop there. In Magdeburg Schwartz married the Huguenot daughter Susanna Beaugrand on November 23, 1702 (born July 16, 1676 in Magdeburg, † May 12, 1738 in Magdeburg), the widow of the tobacco manufacturer Abraham Würtz. They had a total of nine children, four of whom are known by name. After the death of his first wife, Schwartz married Susanna Cornelia Sandrart (* around 1720 Magdeburg), the youngest daughter of the tobacco manufacturer Georg Sandrart (Abraham Würtz's partner). Progeny from this compound is not known. The descendants of Philipp Schwartz remained formative for Magdeburg for over a century in politics as the mayor of the Palatinate Colony and in the economy as company founders and entrepreneurs . They were associated with many of Magdeburg's bourgeois families, such as the Gaertners , Sandrarts , Würtz and others.

Public work

Philipp Schwartz became a citizen of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg in 1703. In 1723 he became mayor of the Palatinate Colony of Magdeburg, an office that he held until 1742.

While Philipp Schwartz was active in the tobacco trade, his sons Philipp Christian and Isaak Abraham, the Schwartz brothers, were involved in tobacco production. With royal privilege, they founded a rapé tobacco factory in 1746, employing 70 tobacco spinners. The product "Rappetabak" was black pressed tobacco, especially the "Strasbourg Rappé", a snuff . The factory also passed into the next generation, Philipp Christian's sons, Ernst Jakob and Johannes Isaac Schwartz, who also ran other businesses together. In 1805 it was sold to the Krahmer & Co company. In 1811 it still employed 16 workers.

The brothers Philipp Christian and Isaak Abraham Schwartz also tried their hand at the difficult business of raising silkworms by planting mulberry trees . In 1755, Philipp Christian Schwartz founded a ribbon factory, the parent company of JJ Schwartz Söhne, at Breiten Weg 130 in Magdeburg, across from the Katharinenkirche . The company later passed to the in-laws Rumpff.

The Schwartz family provided four mayors of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg in three successive generations. Just one year after the death of Philipp Schwartz, he was followed in this office by his son, the tobacco producer Philipp Christian Schwartz (a son-in-law of Moyse Garrigue ). This remained in office until 1763. One of his sons, Johann Isaak Schwartz, is on the list of mayors of the Palatinate colony in 1783. Shortly afterwards, in 1788, his brother Ernst Jakob Schwartz took up this position, who remained mayor of the colony for 19 years until 1807.

literature

  • Johannes Fischer: The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg. Magdeburg 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Fischer es: The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 19, 1939, page 138
  2. ↑ Helmut Asmus, Manfred Wille: 1200 years Magdeburg. From the imperial palace to the state capital. A city history in two volumes. Scriptum Verlag, 2002, page 194
  3. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 53
  4. ^ Rolf Straubel : Merchants and Manufactory Entrepreneurs , 1995, page 245
  5. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 83
  6. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg cultural and economic life No. 22, 1942, pages 150/151
  7. ↑ Johannes Fischer: The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 19, 1939, page 138
personal data
SURNAME Schwartz, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tobacco trader and mayor of the Palatinate Colony of Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken , Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1747
Place of death Magdeburg