Adolph Meyer (banker)

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Tomb of Adolph Meyer and his wife Fanny in the old Jewish cemetery on Oberstrasse

Adolph Meyer (born January 5, 1807 in Hanover ; † April 10, 1866 there ) was a banker in Hanover.

Life

family

Adolph Meyer comes from the important Jewish banking family around Simon Meyer from Hanover. His grandfather was Meyer Joseph Schwerin , who came from Schwerin in Mecklenburg (died in Hanover on December 17, 1796).

Adolph married Fanny Königswarter (* March 13, 1804; + Nov. 12, 1861; sister of Wilhelm Königswarter and daughter of the Fürth banker Simon Königswarter (1774–1854) and Lisette Lämelsfeld (~ 1778–1814), daughter of Lämel Tuschkau and Sister Simon von Lämels ). Your children are:

  • Lisette (* 1830)
  • Bertha (1832-1885)
  • Wilhelm (* 1836)
  • Charlotte (* 1837)
  • Sigmund Meyer (born February 6, 1840 in Hanover; † July 14, 1911 there)
  • Emil (born April 19, 1841 in Hanover; † March 26, 1899 ibid)
  • Friederike (* 1842)
  • Albert (* 1844)

Career

Adolph expanded his father Simon's business and renamed it “ Bankhaus Adolph Meyer ”. The bank, built according to his own plans from 1845 to 1848 at Schillerstraße 32, was one of the first commercial buildings in the emerging Bahnhofsviertel ( Ernst-August-Stadt ), was run by his son Sigmund from 1866 and existed until the 20th century.

In 1828 he built a mill in Linden that he and Alexander Abraham Cohen (brother of 1837 Philipp Abraham Cohen ), Carl Domeyer and Georg Wessel (1791-1873; 1831-32 had in Afferde the woolen goods factories Marienthal founded) for mechanical weaving mill Linden at the Ihme expanded the first mechanical cotton mill in the Kingdom of Hanover. After the two business partners were paid out in 1853, the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1858. It produced the well-known " Lindener Velvet " (the Ihme Center is now on the site ). Meyer and Cohen kept one sixth as their own contribution.

He financed the first Hanoverian factory of Roman cement, which opened in Hameln in the summer of 1833 . In 1845 he bought the brass works in Reher (near Aerzen ) and founded a cement factory and a machine factory on the site. As a result, he set up a thread factory, a weaving mill, a bleaching mill and a wool spinning mill there.

It was not until 1848 that Meyer acquired Hanover citizenship and was elected captain of the Hanoverian vigilante group.

In 1860 he relocated the expanding agricultural machinery factory to Aerzen and founded the Aerzen machine factory there in 1864 .

From 1853 he and Cohen built the Hanover cotton spinning and weaving mill in Linden next to the mechanical weaving mill on the site of today's Linden thermal power station .

In 1854 Meyer had Heinrich Ludwig Debo build the workers' colony Fannystraße not far from the spinning mill , named after the banker's wife.

Meyer was a patron of the Kunstverein Hannover as well as general and Jewish welfare institutions. He was a member of the board of directors of the Jewish community and promoted - as a member of the building commission - the construction of the new synagogue on Bergstrasse (which was destroyed by the National Socialists in 1938).

The oldest known amateur photo in Hanover was made by Meyer (as a calotype , print on salt paper in the possession of the Hanover Historical Museum ). He photographed the Versman house on Schmiedestrasse shortly before it was demolished and signed the photo in the negative.

Adolf Meyer and his wife Fanny are buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery on Oberstrasse .

literature

  • Selig Gronemann : Genealogical studies on the old Jewish families of Hanover: on behalf of the management of the charity (Chewra kadischa) of the synagogue community Hanover on the hand of the inscriptions of the old cemetery . Ed. Louis Lamm. Berlin 1913, p. 146.
  • Ludwig Hoerner (with a contribution by Franz Rudolf Zankl): Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , pp. 68f.
  • The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927. Leipzig o. J. (1927), p. 152.
  • Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode 24, 1970, p. 269f.
  • Walter Buschmann : Linden trees. History of an industrial city in the 19th century. In: Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Volume 75. Hildesheim 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schulze : MEYER, (11) Sigmund. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 254.
  2. ^ Helmut Zimmerman : Emil-Meyer-Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 71
  3. ^ Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Bankhaus Adolph Meyer , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 152
  4. ^ Obenaus, banker, Fraenkel: Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and ... ; Vol. 2. p. 990
  5. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Agents, Bader and Copisten: Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800-1900 ; P. 84
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and banker
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1866
Place of death Hanover