Albert Andreae de Neufville

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Albert Andreae de Neufville and his wife Therese

Albert Andreae (born September 11, 1854 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 30, 1940 ibid) was a German banker from Frankfurt and builder of the townscape-defining Villa Andreae in Königstein im Taunus .

Life and family

Albert Andreae comes from the Andreae merchant and banker family . His grandfather Ferdinand Andreae-Hebestreit (born September 8, 1787 in Frankfurt am Main; † June 6, 1857 there) was a businessman and member of the permanent citizens' representation of the free imperial city of Frankfurt . His father was Philipp Hermann Andreae-Goll (born November 17, 1817 in Frankfurt; † July 4, 1891 ibid), also a businessman in Frankfurt. The mother, Pauline nee Goll, was the daughter of the banker Heinrich Goll-Platzmann, the owner of the banking house Joh. Goll & Sons (founded in 1602, liquidated in 1915). The Platzmann family was related to the Thomas and Heinrich Manns families . The banker Fritz Andreae was a second cousin and Walther Rathenau's brother-in-law .

Albert Andreae became a partner in Joh. Goll & Sons. Joh. Goll & Sons was one of the oldest banks in the city. Founded in 1660 by Johann Goll, the bank had been under this name since 1721. In 1915 the company lost its independence. The Frankfurt banking families were often related by marriage to one another. Albert Andreae also continued this tradition. His wife Teresa (born February 5, 1854 in Frankfurt) was born de Neufville . She was the daughter of the Secret Commerce Councilor Gustav Adolf de Neufville , also a Frankfurt private banker. The D & J de Neufville banking house had existed since 1578. As was customary in the family, Albert Andreae put his wife's name after his own and called himself Albert Andreae de Neufville.

The family lived in Frankfurt in the former Gollschen house at Untermainkai 11, corner of Neue Mainzerstraße 1–3, corner of Hofstraße. Albert Andreae had his father-in-law Gustav Adolf de Neufville-Büttner extensively rebuilt this house. Albert Andreae de Neufville had a son named Alfred (* 1881), who died in the First World War in October 1914 and left his widow Henriette de Neufville-Flersheim and two children. His widow took over the sponsorship of his godson of the same name, Alfred Andreae. A lot of information about the family comes from him at an advanced age. Here from his memoirs: “At the time of Albert Andreae's marriage to Therese de Neufville in 1880, the families of both married couples were in almost fairytale-like circumstances. Albert's father was in the United States at a young age, recognized the opportunities of railroad construction there and invested profitably in it. Presumably he had larger shares in Goll & Söhne bank than his brother-in-law. Therese de Neufville's brothers - Otto and Alfred - owned the D. & J. de Neufville banking house together with Friedrich and Carl von Neufville. Alfred had Anna Mumm von Schwarzenstein, daughter of the then Frankfurt mayor ( Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein ) as his wife and Otto - Evelyn Mylius - from a very wealthy Milanese family. The latter lived in a very stately property on the Schaumainkai and in summer a villa on Lake Como from which they gladly let their guests row across the lake by liveried gondoliers. (...) Right up to old age Albert Andreae knew how to surround himself with a cultivated household and steward, (who) traveled with him (...) to the "Stefanie" (today: Brenner's Park-Hotel & SpaHotel) in Baden-Baden . " .

Therese Andreae de Neufville mourned since the death of her son and set up a rock niche in the park of the villa with a bronze bust of her son, in front of which she often sat on a bench. Alfred Andreae wrote about the situation at this time: When the French occupation came to Königstein immediately after the First World War, he could only defend himself from the seizure (note: the Villa Andreae) by transferring it to his son-in-law Georges Du Bois , a Swiss citizen from the canton of Neuchâtel . The two named grandchildren had to go abroad because of their partly Jewish descent.

The grave of Albert Andreae on the Frankfurt main cemetery, Gewann A No. 290/291, is no longer preserved due to the high subsequent acquisition costs. When it was given up, the bones of Lord Mayor Landmann , who had emigrated to Holland, and his wife were reburied there. A glass picture with the portrait of Johann Valentin Andreaes from a window of the Andreaesche Haus in Frankfurt was removed at the instigation of a family member and installed in the possession in Neu-Isenburg .

Visit from Empress Friedrich

It is said that Empress Friedrich once visited the Villa Andreae after she was asked to stay as a guest in the villa. Although she had announced at short notice for this visit - her letter was put aside and only found in the afternoon after the lady of the house had got up from her nap. She was just able to give instructions when the porter's house was on the phone that the Empress was driving up the mountain. Tea then took place, they apologized and explained that the staff had put the letter down without reporting to the authorities.

Villa Andreae

Villa Andreae with the castle ruins in the background. Taken before 1900
Stock book Villa Andreae. The address is given as Limburger-Straße 13

In Königstein im Taunus, real estate was acquired in the early 1890s. In 1891 Andreae de Neufville, who was active on the board of the Dutch community in Frankfurt, had the castle-like " Villa Andreae " built as a summer residence and provided with elements of Frankfurt landmarks. The architect of the villa was Franz von Hoven , who, together with Ludwig Neher , also built the new town hall complex at Paulsplatz / Braubachstrasse between 1900 and 1904. The tower of Villa Andreae is strikingly similar to the Rententurm in Frankfurt. The property of L. Albert Hahn's parents and the sanatorium of Dr. Oskar Kohnstamm .

The family chronology of both Johann Valentin Andreae and Jakob Andreae are among his ancestors , which is why the ornamentation on the villa building can be traced back to religiously intended Rosicrucian symbolism. Regarding villa construction, it is also worth mentioning that in a book publication about the Frankfurt branch of the Andreae family from 1923 it is referred to as the “ Magnificent Castle” . In fact, there are hundreds of postcards from ancient times showing this magnificent building. The view from the villa is also indicated on many works of art as "View from Gaisberg" and corresponds to the view of the old Merian engraving of Königstein Castle .

literature

  • Alexander Dietz : History of the Andreae family - Frankfurt branch. Frankfurt am Main 1923, pages 187-189, 192, on the following pages there are photographs of the family.
  • Walther Amelung: Be it as it may, it was so beautiful - life memories as contemporary history . Königstein im Taunus 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Kohnstamm # Family, relatives and friendship with the Mann, Andreae, Rathenau, Hallgarten, Binswanger and Hahn families
  2. ^ Erichhabenberg: Der Finanzplatz Frankfurt , 1955, page 133
  3. ↑ a b c d Stadtarchiv Königstein im Taunus - letter from Alfred Andreae from 2010
  4. ↑ In relation to the entry on "du Bois", the entry in Walther Amelung's memoirs makes sense, Albert Andreae would descend from an old Huguenot family. 1984, p. 221.
  5. ↑ The City Archives Königstein im Taunus in a commemorative publication from 2001, '150 years of cure in Königstein'
  6. ↑ alemannia-judaica.de
  7. ↑ Alexander Dietz : History of the Andreae family - Frankfurter branch . Frankfurt am Main 1923, pages 3-19
  8. ↑ Steinere House Königstein
personal data
SURNAME Andreae de Neufville, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreae, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and owner of Degussa
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1940
Place of death Frankfurt am Main