Schloeth (family)

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The Basel Schloeth family goes back to the Berlin- based master locksmith and stove builder Heinrich Ludwig Schlöth (also Schlett and Schloett; 1781–1839), who settled on the knee of the Rhine around 1800 and married Maria Salome Treu (1781–1850) from Basel in 1806. In 1809 he and his family were naturalized in Binningen and in 1820 in Basel , where he had been running his own locksmith's shop on Birsig since around 1810 . He also worked as a mechanic and as a mill and balance maker. In later years he was mainly a stove manufacturer and sold heating devices he had invented. But he did not give up the traditional locksmith trade. He and his employees performed the locksmith work on the building of the General Reading Society on Münsterplatz, which was built between 1830 and 1832 .

Heinrich Ludwigs Schlöth's eldest son Friedrich Ludwig, known as Louis (1808–1869), also learned the locksmith's trade and continued the business and stove factory established by his father. As a locksmith and mechanic, he was one of the leaders in his field in Basel and also received demanding public contracts. Charlotte Kestner, daughter of Goethe's Lotte and sister of August Kestner, lived with him . All representatives of the Schloeth family can be traced back to Friedrich Ludwig, who was married twice and had a total of nine children.

Another son of Heinrich Ludwig Schlöth was the well-known sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818-1891), who first learned the trade as a locksmith and worked in the family business , but trained as a sculptor after the death of his father and achieved great success in this area. He remained without direct descendants. His nephew Achilles Schlöth (1858–1904), a son of Friedrich Ludwig Schlöth, also took up the profession of sculptor. His older half-sister Amalie Schneider-Schlöth (1839–1888) also became known as the author of the many-sided Basel cooking school , an extensive compendium of bourgeois food culture .

Well-known representatives of the family from the 20th and 21st centuries are the entrepreneur Rudolf Schlöth-Burckhardt (1856–1939) and his son, the textile merchant Max Schloeth-von Brunn († 1951), his son, the biologist and first full-time director of the Swiss National Parks Robert F. Schloeth (1927–2012), the artist Francine Schloeth (* 1961 ), who has lived in Buenos Aires since 2002 and whose work is represented in the Basler Kupferstichkabinett , the architect, spatial planner and co-founder of the homosexual working groups Zurich Lucas Schloeth (* 1962 ) as well as the political scientist , journalist and Zurich canton politician Daniel Schloeth (* 1965). The literary translator Madlaina Schloeth-Bezzola is the daughter-in-law of Robert F. Schloeth.

From the third generation onwards, the family is related by marriage to old Basel families such as Burckhardt , Faesch and von Brunn . In the course of the 20th century, the current spelling Schloeth became common.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Weiss: Baseler Bürgerbuch , Basel 1836, p. 41; F [ranz] A [ugust] Stocker: Ferdinand Schlöth , in: Vom Jura zum Schwarzwald 9 (1892), pp. 53–80, here p. 57. Cf. Heinrich Ludwig Schlöth on Marjorie-Wiki . A possible relationship with the iron merchant Johann Ferdinand Schlöth, proven in Potsdam in 1838, has not been clarified ( [1] ).
  2. ↑ Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the General Reading Society in Basel 1787–1937, Basel 1937, p. 75 (here incorrectly named Louis Schlöth).
  3. ↑ See Friedrich Ludwig Schlöth on Marjorie Wiki .
  4. ^ Hermann Kestner-Köchlin (ed.): Correspondence between August Kestner and his sister Charlotte, Strasbourg 1904, p. 299.
  5. ^ Website of Francine Schloeth .
  6. ↑ Basel Art Museum, 2013 annual report.
  7. ↑ On Daniel Schloeth's political activity see [2] .
  8. ↑ Excerpt from the Burckhardt family tree at www.stroux.org (PDF; 42 kB).

literature

  • Stefan Hess / Tomas Lochman (eds.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891), catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Skulpturhalle, Basel 2004, pp. 16 ff. And 22 ff.

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