Background
Ernst Marlier was the son of Philipp Marlier, a postal official (died 1902), and Mathilda Marlier (née Forkeln).
Pharmaceutical manufacturer proprietor
Ernst Marlier was the son of Philipp Marlier, a postal official (died 1902), and Mathilda Marlier (née Forkeln).
After receiving commercial training in the Fuchs Book Factory, Marlier fulfilled his military service obligation in Infantry Regiment 22 in Kassel, after which he moved to Nuremberg. There he was proprietor of a shipping firm, Micado. In 1903 Marlier settled in Berlin (Kurfürstenstrasse 173a, later Sternstrasse 22), where he founded multiple drug firms (Chemische Fabrik Doctor Schröder GmbH, Chemische Fabrik Doctor Hartmann GmbH, Chemische Fabrik Doctor Wagner und Marlier, and the coal wholesaler Julius Marlier).
By 1907 Marlier was already having problems with police headquarters, which warned that Marlier’s preparations “did not have the properties ascribed to them in their sales information.” Among the pharmaceuticals Marlier sold were Antipositin, Antineurasthin, Renascin, Slankal, Levathin, Visnervin, Vitalito and Hämasol.
In 1904, Marlier was charged with battery and disturbance of the peace, and sentenced to six days in jail. In 1913, on the corner of Friedrichstraße and Jägerstraße, Marlier was arrested for assault and battery.
According to the police, Marlier had slapped the face of a woman waiting at a cab stand. When two drivers intervened, Marlier beat them both.
A policeman named Brandt saw the disturbance and approached, whereupon Marlier attacked him.
According to the police report, Marlier was taken to the police precinct. A wild scene ensued, the furious Marlier accosting everyone in sight. Marlier was sentenced to pay a 600 mark fine.
Marlier"s wife divorced him in 1922 because he beat her.
But Marlier was unable to keep the villa because of his business problems. In 1905 the Pharmaceutical Institute of Berlin determined that Marlier’s medicines consisted of nothing more than tartaric acid, citric acid, sodium chloride, and egg yolk.
In 1907 the German government forbade the sale of Marlier’s Antipositin and Antineurasthin. Marlier became involved in a tangle of legal troubles and in 1921 was forced to sell the to industrialist Friedrich Minoux for 2,300,000 reichsmarks.
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