Seligmann Ladenburg

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Seligmann Ladenburg (born December 9, 1797 in Mannheim ; died November 25, 1873 there ) was the owner of the “ WH Ladenburg & Sons ” bank and an important banker in Mannheim.

family

He came from the Ladenburg family , a well-known Jewish family in Mannheim, and was the son of the banker Wolf Ladenburg (1766–1851), the founder of the Ladenburg bank , and Wilhelmine Lorch (1770–1845) from Mainz.

Seligmann Ladenburg married Julie Goldschmidt (born May 10, 1800 in Kassel ; died September 4, 1859 in Mannheim) from Kassel on October 15, 1823 , daughter of Samson Ruben Goldschmidt (died April 1841) and Henriette Feidel.

His successor as owner of the bank was his son Carl Ladenburg (1827–1909), an honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim.

Seligmann Ladenburg was the older brother of the lawyer and economist Leopold Ladenburg (1809-1889).

Life

The banking house "WH Ladenburg & Sons" around 1907

After attending the Mannheim Lyceum - he was also a student of Adolph Diesterweg - Ladenburg joined his father's bank early on. In his wedding year 1823 he became a partner in the bank. Due to his good judgment, his decisiveness and business solidity, he quickly gained general attention in financial circles, which is why he became the head of the bank after the death of his father in 1851 and the two older brothers.

He was a committed advocate of Baden joining the Zollverein , which was supposed to bring freedom of trade within the individual German states, and strongly disapproved of the opposition of the then leaders of the liberal party .

In the 1840s (“ March Revolution ” of 1848) he remained neutral, but was conservative in thought and action .

He showed no interest in a position in public life and was only a member of the Chamber of Commerce from 1839–1863 . He rejected re-election in 1863.

When the Austro-Prussian War broke out in 1866, he predicted Prussia's victory . His proposal to Baden's finance minister to raise funds for participation in the war also formed the basis for raising these funds. Since then, his advice has been in demand in all important financial operations and he was one of the founders of almost all large companies (e.g. Badische Schiffahrtsassekuranz-Gesellschaft, Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation Waghäusel (today: Südzucker AG ), Mannheimer Dampfschleppschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, Rheinische Gasgesellschaft, Mannheimer) Exchange Association). He was - together with five other members of the Ladenburg family, including his brother Dr. Leopold Ladenburg - co-founder and president of the “ Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik ” BASF in Ludwigshafen , whose founding meeting took place on March 25, 1865 in his private home, and co-founder and member of the board of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway . Ladenburg had become one of the most influential personalities in Mannheim's economy.

On his 70th birthday in 1867, he founded the “ Seligmann, Julie and Leopold Ladenburg Foundation ” with a capital of 30,000 guilders . The purpose of the foundation was to help needy residents of Mannheim, who were in need through no fault of their own, through a foundation award.

Seligmann Ladenburg was buried in the Jewish cemetery (Mannheim) .

See also

literature

  • Leopold Ladenburg: Family tree of the Ladenburg family. Verlag J. Ph. Walther, Mannheim 1882.
  • Hermann Schäfer:  Ladenburg, Seligmann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 387 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Florian Waldeck : Ladenburg . In: Florian Waldeck: Old Mannheim families. Self-published by Buchdruckerei Max Hahn & Co., Mannheim 1920, ( Writings of the Family History Association Mannheim 1, ZDB -ID 1447695-2 ), (Also reprinted: Gesellschaft der Freunde Mannheims, Mannheim 1987).
  • Ladenburg, Seligmann. In: Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-17-008696-0 , pp. 111-112.
  • Wolfgang Pieper: Seligmann Ladenburg as the financier of BASF. A contribution to the relationship between entrepreneurs and financiers in the 19th century. In: Tradition. Journal for company history and entrepreneur biography. CH Beck, Volume 12 (1967), Issue 6, p. 553 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Otto Watzinger, Jörg Schadt and Michael Martin: History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 , Verlag Kohlhammer, 1987, p. 111
  2. ↑ Werner Abelshauser (ed.): The BASF. A company story. CHBeck, 2nd edition Munich 2003, p. 27.
  3. ^ Annual report of the direction of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway for the administrative year 1858/59. Ludwigshafen am Rhein, December 19, 1859.
personal data
SURNAME Ladenburg, Seligmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1873
Place of death Mannheim