Carl Alexander Schuke (14 August 1870 – 16 November 1933) was a German

organ builder Organ building is the profession of designing, building, restoring and maintaining pipe organs. The Organ builders , organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of Organ stop, stops, Manual (mu ...

and from 1894 to 1933 owner and manager of the . The company still exists today.

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Born in ,

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, Schuke was the son of the pastor Karl Schuke, who officiated in Stepenitz from 1867 to 1886, and Charlotte Margarethe Alexandrine Anna von Wulffen. In 1885, he came to Potsdam and attended the Viktoria-Gymnasium, today . After graduating from high school, he learned the organ building trade from master organ builder Carl Eduard Gesell. After Gesell's death in 1894, Schuke bought the company and thus took over the business. Through his temporary work at the organ building company Sauer from

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, he was able to gain experience in contemporary modern organ building techniques, which he brought into his company and thus made his workshop one of the best known organ building companies. After his death in Potsdam at the age of 63, his sons

Karl Schuke Karl Ludwig Alexander Schuke (6 November 1906 – 7 May 1987) was a German organ builder. The son of the organ builder Alexander Schuke, he continued, together with his brother Hans-Joachim Schuke, to run their father's company in Potsdam until ...

and Hans-Joachim Schuke continued to run the company together. Approximately 140 organs were built during Alexander Schuke's tenure. For example, Schuke built the organ at the .

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Schuke, Karl Alexander
on BMLO
All new constructions, alterations and repairs by Alexander Schuke, with details of the stops, manuals and pedals

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