Abraham Oppenheim
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Abraham Oppenheim , from 1868 Abraham Freiherr von Oppenheim , (born May 24, 1804 in Cologne ; † October 9, 1878 ibid) was a German banker and patron .
Life
Oppenheim was the second oldest son among a total of twelve children of the banker Salomon Oppenheim junior and his wife Deigen Levi (1775-1842), who later called herself Therese Stein. She was the daughter of a businessman from Dülmen .
In 1821 the eldest son of Salomon Oppenheim (junior), Simon , joined his father's bank , he was later followed by Abraham; in the same year Oppenheim provided his wife Therese with a power of attorney to sign.
Salomon Oppenheim junior gave his sons Simon and Abraham general power of attorney to continue the banking business in 1827. The following year Abraham also became a partner. He expanded the commission and exchange house founded by his father into a major private bank. When he married Charlotte Beyfus (1811–1887) in 1834 , the family became closely related to the Rothschild banking family , of which Charlotte's mother was descended from, and also had business ties .
Abraham Oppenheim played a part in the development of the German railway system, the German insurance industry and the Rhenish mechanical engineering and cotton industries. In 1868 he was the first unbaptized Jew in Prussia to become a baron and belonged to the inner circle of King Wilhelm I. As part of his consultation with the king, he organized, together with Gerson Bleichröder and other befriended bankers, the financing of the Prussian-Austrian war of 1866 through a Government bond . The "revolutionary" plan by Abraham Oppenheim and Bleichröder, advocated by Bismarck, to privatize the state-owned mines in the Saar area and thus finance the war, was not heard by the Prussian king.
With a purchase contract of January 4, 1873, Abraham Freiherr von Oppenheim and his wife acquired the castle in Bassenheim, built in 1787, with the associated park. After that, extensive construction work began, including the foundation of a hospital, which was inaugurated on June 28, 1887 and transferred to the community. In addition to the construction costs of 48,694 marks, Mrs. von Oppenheim equipped the house with 450,000 marks for operation and maintenance. During her lifetime, Charlotte von Oppenheim (1820–1887) ordered the construction of a mausoleum in Bassenheim Park, to which she and her husband were transferred on October 24, 1889.
A nephew of Abraham Oppenheim was Albert von Oppenheim , later co-owner of the Sal. Oppenheim bank and an important art collector.
literature
- Gabriele Teichmann: Oppenheim, Abraham Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 561 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Treue: Abraham Oppenheim (1804–1878). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , Volume 8. Aschendorff, Münster 1962, pp. 1–31.
- Wilhelm Treue: The Cologne bankers Oppenheim. Simon Oppenheim (1803–1880), Abraham Oppenheim (1804–1878) and Dagobert Oppenheim (1809–1889). In: Cologne entrepreneurs in the 19th and 20th centuries. (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien , Volume 13.) Aschendorff, Münster 1986, ISBN 3-402-05588-0 , pp. 171-202.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cord-Michael Sander, Horst Walter: A family shapes Bassenheim . Hrsg. Heimatverein Bassenheim e. V., Bassenheim 1993.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Oppenheim, Abraham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oppenheim, Abraham von (full name from 1868) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1878 |
| Place of death | Cologne |