Adèle von Rothschild

Adèle von Rothschild (* 1843 , † 1922 ), actually Adele Hannah Charlotte von Rothschild , was a member of the Rothschild family. She gave the city of Frankfurt am Main the painting Goethe in the Campagna by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , which is now in the Städel. As was common practice in the Rothschild family during the 19th century, Adele von Rothschild married her French cousin Salomon de Rothschild in 1862 . However, her husband died two years after the wedding.

Adèle von Rothschild was the daughter of Mayer Carl von Rothschild and his wife Louise von Rothschild . Both parents were grandchildren of the founding couple of the Rothschild dynasty Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Gutle Rothschild , who were both born in the Judengasse in Frankfurt . Adèle von Rothschild's parents were among the most influential Frankfurt citizens. Her father was a member of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and co-founder of the Frankfurter Bank , Consul of Parma and Bavaria and Consul General of Austria . In 1866 he was a member of the delegation that negotiated with Bismarck to achieve more favorable conditions for the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by Prussia. From 1867 to 1871 he was a member of the Frankfurt city council and at the same time the North German Reichstag . In 1871 he became the first Jew to become a member of the Prussian manor house . During the Franco-Prussian War, her mother set up a hospital on Frankfurt's Hafenstrasse, where she and her daughters looked after wounded soldiers. Louise von Rothschild was awarded the Order of Luise by Empress Augusta in 1875 .

Goethe in the Campagna
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , 1787
Oil on canvas
164 × 206 cm
Städel

By donating the painting to the city of Frankfurt, Adele von Rothschild acted in the tradition of her parents. Louise von Rothschild donated the Clementine Children's Hospital in 1865 in memory of her daughter Clementine, who died young . The Günthersburgpark bequeathed her father the city of Frankfurt, with the testamentary edition, make it available to the public and to demolish the neoclassical mansion. Adele von Rothschild's sisters acted in a similar way. In 1890, Hannah Luise von Rothschild donated the Carolinum sanatorium in memory of her father, where she herself worked as a nurse. The Carolinum still exists today.

literature

• Edith Dörken: Famous Frankfurt Women , Otto Lembeck Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-87476-557-2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dörken, p. 83