page_title: Carol Schmidt
section_title: Schmidt and posterity
hierarchical_section_title: Carol Schmidt / Schmidt and posterity
caption_attribution_description: Română: Placă instalată pe casa în care a locuit Carol Schmidt.
context_page_description: Carol Schmidt was an Imperial Russian politician in what is now Moldova. He was the longest serving mayor of Chișinău, being the mayor of the capital from 1877 by 1903, with a special contribution to the modernization of the city. He was a Bessarabian German and is considered one of the best mayors Chișinău ever had. He was the father of Alexander Schmidt, also mayor of Chișinău, between 1917-1918.
context_section_description: Carol Schmidt was the only mayor to whom the citizens requested to be called in his behalf while he was still alive. It happened in 1902, when Schmidt was at 25 anniversary of being the mayor of the city. The former Gostinnaia street (Russian, Гостинная), on which Schmidt lived, became Carol Schmidt street (Russian, Шмидтовская). At present, one part of the street is called Mitropolit Varlaam street, and the other part is called Metropolitan Dosoftei. The house in which Carol Schmidt lived has survived until today and is located on Mitropolit Varlaam street no. 84 (at the intersection with Mihai Eminescu str.). A memorial plaque installed on that building reminds, in Romanian and German, of the former resident.
  On 10 May 2014 the bust of Carol Schmidt was inaugurated in front of the National Philharmonic in Chișinău, near the house where the former mayor of Chișinău lived. All expenses were covered by the embassy of Germany and Poland. As for the mayor's grave, it is unknown. In 1937, a decade after Schmidt's death, Gheorghe Bezviconi wrote in the magazine From our past that the grave of the greate mayor remains shabby and only a modest wooden cross is guarding him. After years, the wood rotting, the grave can no longer be identified.
caption: The Memorial plaque is placed at the house where Carol Schmidt lived in Chișinău (84 Mitropolit Varlaam str.)
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