Souchay (family)

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Souchay coat of arms, coat of arms collection in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck

Souchay , completely Souchay de la Duboissière , is the name of a Huguenot family who first came to Hanau from France in the 18th century . In the 19th century the family became very prosperous in the textile trade and formed branches in Frankfurt am Main , Manchester and northern Germany.

story

Pierre Souchay (before 1625 – after 1677) was the lord of an estate near Orléans , which earned the family the nickname de la Duboissière to distinguish it from families with the same name but not related . This was not a title of nobility, even if it was sometimes viewed as such in the 19th century. The names are identical, but there is no ancestral relationship with the family of Pierre-Hélène Souchay, seigneur de Montgriffon (1733–1806) and the family of Paul de Lamerie (= Souchay de la Merie ). The Souchay de la Duboissière family was French Reformed ; two of Pierre's grandsons left France after the Edict of Fontainebleau around 1700 and went to Geneva . Another grandson, Jaques Souchay (* 1689 in Gien ; † 1743 in Hanau ), learned the goldsmith's trade in Paris and came to Hanau via Geneva in 1714, where he started his own business in 1722 as a manufacturer of gold and silver goods ( jewelery ).

Anton Wilhelm Tischbein : Souchay family (1779)

The German family branches go back to Jacques' three sons Esaie, Marc André and Jean-Daniel. Esaie and Marc André continued their father's manufacture as Les Frères Souchay . They specialized in the manufacture of golden tobacco boxes .

The north German branch is formed by the descendants of Esaïe Souchay (* 1723 in Hanau; † 1791 in Lübeck) and his wife Anne Petronelle, née Varlut (1725–1769), who mainly worked as merchants.

The Frankfurt branch was founded by the preacher of the French Reformed congregation in Frankfurt, Jean-Daniel Souchay de la Duboissière (1736–1811). His son, the banker and Draper Cornelius Carl Souchay (1768-1838) put in the time of the continental blockade as "adventure capitalist" with equally daring and successful speculation the foundation for a global trading and financial empire. The family relied early on the rapidly increasing importance of English cotton fabrics and the railway ( Liverpool and Manchester Railway ) and became one of "the richest Anglo-German trading families of the mid-19th century". The entrepreneurial network, the family capitalism of the Souchays, was consolidated on a family basis through strategically planned marriages with the Schunck, Benecke, Mylius and Bunge families. Schunck, Souchay & Co. supplied the European market through its branches in England, France, Italy and Russia.

Of the descendants of Cornelius Carl Souchay, his sons Jean / Johann Daniel Souchay, builder of Eckberg Castle near Dresden, Charles, owner of Neuhof Castle near Coburg , and the Frankfurt politician Eduard Souchay as well as his granddaughter Cécile Charlotte Sophie Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his great-grandson Max Weber gained importance. Guenther Roth emphasizes the importance of family history and character for Weber's classical views, e. B. for Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism .

The considerable fortunes that were made in the Frankfurt and Lübeck branches through profit in the textile trade in the first half of the 19th century were subsequently used to secure the upper-class lifestyle of the family: "The general trend in wealth development was from profit to retirement ". Several family members now pursued their artistic inclinations, financially independent.

In 1961 there were only two male carriers of the name Souchay, the brothers and later doctors Cornelius (* 1945) and Sebastian (* 1949), great-great-grandsons of Eduard Souchay .

coat of arms

The family's coat of arms shows three birds in a 2: 1 position with outstretched wings and three birds soaring. As Helmzier a bird with open flight. The birds are different than eagles, hawks or as ducks (of French souce = Shoveler described). The tinging changes between black on gold, gold on red and silver on red. The helmet covers are black / gold.

Possessions

Eckberg Castle

representative

  • Esaie Souchay (1723–1791), goldsmith (Les Frères Souchay) in Hanau → Lübeck branch and Berlin line
  • Marc André Souchay (1730–1811), goldsmith (Les Frères Souchay) in Hanau → Hanauer Ast and Russian branch
    • Anna Petronella Souchay (1753–1851) ∞ Charles Colin (1749–1817)
      • Jacques Charles Colin (1825–1870) (goldsmiths Souchay & Colin )
  • Jean-Daniel Souchay de la Duboissière (1736–1811) → Frankfurter Ast

Frankfurt branch

Cornelius Carl Souchay
  • Cornelius Carl Souchay (1768–1838), Frankfurt merchant ∞ Helene Schunck (1774–1851)
    • Jean / Johann / John Daniel Souchay (1798–1871), businessman in Manchester, lived in Dresden from 1859 ∞ Thekla Schunck (1809–1876)
    • Charles / Carl Isaac Souchay (1799–1872), merchant in London and Manchester ∞ Adelheid Dethmar (1809–1890)
      • Adelaide / Adelheid Souchay (1831–1908) ∞ Alfred Benecke (1818–1900), businessman
    • Eduard Souchay (1800–1872), Frankfurt politician ∞ Helene Schmidt (1804–1888)
    • Emilie Souchay (1805–1881) ∞ Friedrich Fallenstein (1790–1853), member of the government

The daughter descendants include Carl Jeanrenaud , via Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy the Mendelssohn family: Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy the Elder , Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy the Younger ; Otto Baumgarten , Fritz Baumgarten , Max Weber , Alfred Weber ; Otto von Dungern-Oberau ; Otto Lucius von Ballhausen , Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten and Robert von Lucius .

Lübeck branch

Friedrich Carl Gröger : Marc André Souchay and family (around 1805)

The daughter descendants include Röttger Ganslandt , Johannes Geibel and his descendants, including Emanuel Geibel , the descendants of Emil Ferdinand Fehling ( Maria Fehling , Ferdinand Fehling , Jürgen Fehling ) and Karl Peter Klügmann , August and Hugo Brehmer , August Wilhelm Fehling , Carl Curtius , Wilhelm Gädeke , Wilhelm Focke and Henrich Focke as well as Lilly Dieckmann .

Berlin line

memory

Funerary monuments

Tomb in Lübeck

Streets

In Lübeck, Souchaystraße near the manor house Krempelsdorf in Lübeck-St. Lorenz to Marc André Souchay and his family. The street was named in 1941 at the suggestion of Louise Souchay (1858–1945), the last Lübeck descendant of the family.

In Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen , Souchaystrasse is reminiscent of Eduard Franz Souchay .

The Souchay Court is located on the Clothorn Road in Manchester.

In Dresden- Loschwitz , too, there was a Souchaystrasse from 1904 that was reminiscent of John Daniel Souchay. It has been called Tolstoistraße since 1946 .

Literary

The Cuban author Leonardo Padura published the short story El romance de Angerona in 1990 , which describes in free form the relationship between Cornelio Souchay and the multiracial ( mulato ) Ursula Lambert from Haiti and their role in the management of the Angerona plantation . This resulted in the film Roble de olor (2004, English Scent of oak ) with the director Rigoberto López .

literature

  • Adelaide Souchay Benecke: Memories of the past. Edinburgh 1906 ( digitized , HathiTrust )
  • Marc André Souchay: Family and Life Memories 1759-1813. In: ZVLGA 38 (1958) ( digitalisat ), pp. 30-40
  • Otto Döhner: The Huguenot family Souchay de la Duboissière and their descendants. (= German Family Archives 19) Neustadt ad Aisch: Degener 1961
  • Guenther Roth : Max Weber's German-English family history 1800–1950, with letters and documents. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147557-7

Web links

Commons : Souchay (family)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Döhner (lit.), p. 15.
  2. ↑ Roth (Lit.), p. 40.
  3. ↑ Roth (lit.), p. XVII.
  4. ↑ Roth (lit.), p. 57.
  5. ↑ Roth (lit.), p. 650.
  6. ↑ Döhner (lit.), p. 24.
  7. ↑ Guenther Roth : Deliberate Search and Unexpected Discoveries Archival research on Max Weber's Milieu. In: Max Weber Studies 14 (2014), pp. 233–243, especially p. 233 ( digitized JSTOR ).
  8. ↑ According to Döhner (Lit.), pp. 16f., There also examples
  9. ↑ House No. 17: Junkerhof or Alter-Hof , accessed on June 25, 2021.
  10. ↑ Tolstoistraße in Stadtwiki Dresden, accessed on June 28, 2021
  11. ↑ See also Guenther Roth : Angerona: Facts and Fictions about Cornelio Souchay and Ursula Lambert's Cuban Coffee Plantation (2001, digitized ); Portuguese: Angerona: Fatos e ficcoes sobre a fazenda de café de Cornelio Souchay e Ursula Lambert em Cuba , in sociologia & atitropologia 2: 4 (2012): 211-39; Spanish: Angerona: mitos y realidades del cafetal cubano de Cornelio Souchay y Ursula Lambert , Istor. Revista de historia international xv: 57 (2014): 159-92.
  12. ^ Roble de olor in the Internet Movie Database .