Abraham Heart Cohen

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Abraham Herz Cohen (also: Abraham Cohen ; born 1746 in Hanover ; died March 10, 1825 ) was a Hanover chamber agent .

Life

family

Abraham Herz Cohen was the son of the "Israelite" Herz Cohen, who came from a Jewish family . He married Amalia, née Gans, from Celle , with whom he had 14 children, including Philipp Abraham Cohen, who later became a banker and metal merchant, who was born on March 25, 1790 in Hanover . Of Cohen's 14 children, three died before their mother's death in 1822.

At his death in 1825, Cohen left behind 4 sons and 7 daughters, more than 30 grandchildren.

Career

Cohen, who worked in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , protected numerous electoral Hanoverian officials and court servants, whose salaries were paid from England, from starvation with the help of his international trade relations during the so-called French era . Despite the prohibition by Napoleon Bonaparte and often at risk of death , Cohen managed to get parts of the outstanding wages from England for those civil servants and in particular family fathers who had not entered the service of Napoleon or his brother Jérôme , who was appointed King of Westphalia .

After the former electorate was elevated to the Kingdom of Hanover , the already aged Cohen was appointed royal Hanoverian chamber agent in 1816.

Before his death, Abraham Herz Cohen donated several legacies for charitable purposes “without regard to the Confession ”. This included the sum of 4,000 Thalers for the construction of the New Synagogue in Hanover.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Rothert : Cohen, Abrah. Heart , in which: General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 525
  2. ↑ n.v . : Cohen, Abraham in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on August 26, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e f H: Abraham Herz Cohen, royal. hannövr. Cammer Agent , in Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen ... , Volume 3, Part 2, pp. 1367-1368; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ Stefanie Knetsch: The group's own banking institute of the Metallgesellschaft in the period from 1906 to 1928. Programmatic claim and implementation (= contributions to company history , Volume 6), also dissertation 1997 at the University of Bonn, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3- 515-07406-3 and ISBN 3-515-07406-6 , p. 23; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Abraham Heart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Hanover Chamber Agent
DATE OF BIRTH 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1825