Theodor Sarre

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Grave of Theodor Sarre in the French Cemetery in Berlin

Theodor André Sarre (born December 1, 1816 in Berlin ; † February 24, 1893 there ) was a German businessman and entrepreneur as well as city ​​elder of Berlin .

Life

Theodor Sarre came from a Berlin Huguenot family . His father was the merchant Jean Henri Sarre (1786–1863), his mother Caroline Friederike Wilhelmine nee. Pöhn (1789-1863). He attended the Gray Monastery high school , but had to leave it in 1832 due to an eye problem. He completed a four-year commercial apprenticeship in Ferdinand Dannenberg's grocery store. In 1848 he joined the copper and brass works of Carl Justus Heckmann (1786–1878), where he quickly made a career. In 1853 he married Heckmann's eldest daughter Mathilde (1830–1879).

In 1869 his father-in-law divided his property. Theodor Sarre received the sugar factories in Herzershof in the Küstriner Vorland and Stralsund as well as the associated goods Devin and Voigdehagen near Stralsund and the banking business CJ Heckmann, based in the Heckmann villa in Schlesische Straße 18/19, which primarily served the management of the family property and managed the Sarre until 1878.

After he had already been a city councilor and district chairman, he was active as an unpaid city councilor in the magistrate of Berlin from 1869 . In the fall of 1891 he suffered a stroke and then withdrew from all public offices on January 1, 1892. On February 12, 1892 he became an honorary city ​​elder of Berlin , and died a year later. His grave with a statue of Karl Cauer is in the cemetery of the French Reformed Congregation on Chausseestrasse.

Theodor Sarre had four children: Carl Sarre (1856–1924), the administrative court director, Gustav Sarre (1860–1906), who inherited the Herzershof estate, Margarete Sarre (1861–1928) and the art historian and museum director Friedrich Sarre (1865–1945).

literature

  • Friedrich Sarre: Théodore Sarre. In: The French Colony. Journal for the past and present of the French Reformed communities in Germany 7, 1893, p. 147 ff.
  • Harry Nehls: Cauer sculpture on the Sarre grave . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 5, 1989, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 33-37 .
  • Harry Nehls: The Sarre Family Tomb. In: Museums Journal , 12, Issue 4, 1998, pp. 10-11.
personal data
SURNAME Sarre, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarre, Theodor André (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and entrepreneur as well as city elder of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1893
Place of death Berlin