Adolph vom Rath

Adolph vom Rath (born April 23, 1832 in Würzburg , † June 17, 1907 in Berlin ) was a Prussian banker, co-founder and board member of Deutsche Bank .

Life

Adolph vom Rath comes from a merchant family in Duisburg who had relatives in other German companies of the 19th century. Adolph's father Gerhard Carl vom Rath (1802–13 Nov 1875) had been running a sugar refinery in Duisburg since 1822 , but relocated it to Würzburg.

Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann , a brother-in-law and business partner of Gerhard Carl vom Rath, was a member of the board of the A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bankverein and founded his own banking business in Cologne in 1857, with 25-year-old Adolph vom Rath as a partner, who soon became the determining force of the bank Deichmann & Co. should be.

In 1870, Adolph vom Rath was a member of the founding committee of Deutsche Bank as a representative of his house, and was a member of the board of directors that submitted the founding statute to the Prussian government on February 25, 1870. The first general assembly elected him to the 24-member board of directors. In 1879 he was appointed to the Revision Commission. In 1880 he also moved from Cologne to Berlin and increased his influence on the management of Deutsche Bank. In 1889 he succeeded Adelbert Delbrück , who had been Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1871. The body was now called the “Supervisory Board” according to the 1884 amendment to the stock corporation law.

Adolph vom Rath was chairman of the supervisory board until his death and spent several hours a day in the bank's main building on Mauerstrasse, reading all of the secretarial correspondence.

At Viktoriastraße 6 in Berlin , the vom Rath family and his wife Anna vom Rath had a salon in which the writers Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Gerhart Hauptmann , the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey , the scientists Hermann von Helmholtz and Theodor Mommsen as well as the politicians Ludwig Bamberger and Rudolf von Bennigsen frequented.

In 1901 Adolph vom Rath was raised to the hereditary nobility, but kept his name "vom Rath".

Adolph vom Rath died in Berlin in 1907 at the age of 75 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rath, Adolph vom. on the website of the Historical Society of Deutsche Bank eV
2. ^ Genealogical file of the families of manufacturers, merchants and bankers in the Rhine and Ruhr regions.
3. ^ Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: The Berlin salons: With historical-literary walks. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016414-0 , p. 290. (online)
4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 307.

Web links

• Genealogical file of the families of manufacturers, merchants and bankers in the Rhine and Ruhr regions.