Maakri (Carl Ludvig Macker [Mecker])

18^th‑C dean of the weavers’ guild. According to TT, the dry-cleaners now at No.23 evolved out of the cleaning and dying company founded by the Macker family in 1820 (Carl Ludvig was first mentioned in 1769), but other sources claim the founders (same year) as Birk, a family having lived in the area since 1625. Street also home to the Jewish Synagogue until the March 9^th 1944 bombing, although probably unfrequented at that time: according to the Eichmann list presented at the Wannsee Conference, Estonia in 1941 was Judenfrei, the only ‘Jew-free’ (also termed Judenrein, or ‘clean of Jews’) ‘German’ country... In 2007, a new synagogue was completed in Karu.