Albert Oppenheimer

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Albert Oppenheimer

Albert Oppenheimer (born on January 13, 1814 in Braunschweig ; died on January 11 and June 11, 1897 there ) was a German banker of the Jewish faith.

Life

Albert Oppenheimer was the son of Lehmann Oppenheimer (1782–1849) and his wife Betty, geb. Lax (1787-1867). Lehmann was the son of the protective Jew Levin Daniel Oppenheimer (1738-1826) who immigrated to Braunschweig .

Albert Oppenheimer joined his father's company, Bankhaus Oppenheimer , in 1842 and took over management of it in 1850 together with his brother August (1816–1878). In addition, he was the leaseholder of the Braunschweigische Landeslotterie.

From 1862 he was the representative of the Jewish community in Braunschweig and from 1868 until his death in 1897 also its head.

Oppenheimer Bank

Levin Daniel Oppenheimer ran a money exchange business in the city , for which his son Lehmann received a license in 1797 . Under his son Albert, the 1853 emerged from Bankhaus "Lehmann Oppenheimer & Son" developed in the Broad Street ( Insurance Number numerous through its corporate investments and urban development measures an important factor in the 775) the economy of the city of Braunschweig . In May 1900 the bank headquarters moved from Breiten Strasse to Dankwardstrasse 2. In 1932, as a result of the German banking crisis , the Oppenheimer bank was finally taken over by Commerz- und Privatbank AG , later Commerzbank . The bank still has a branch in the building today.

family

Rosalie Oppenheimer, b. Levin (1824–1911), wife of Albert Oppenheimer.

From 1847 Albert Oppenheimer was with Rosalie, geb. Levin (March 21, 1824 in Berlin - June 8, 1911 in Braunschweig). Together they had five daughters: Berta (1848–1939), married to the banker Karl Magnus; Elisabeth (born 1850), married to the merchant Michels from Hanover; Anna , married to the merchant Robert Jasper from Braunschweig; Minna (born 1854), married to the Wiesbaden doctor Moritz Cohn and Helene (1858–1943), married to the lawyer Max Aronheim . In 1871 Oppenheimer had acquired the property at Hohetorwall 14, corner of Sonnenstrasse , on which he had a villa built for himself and his family. The building was destroyed in World War II. Today there is a new building there.

The Oppenheimer and Aronheim families are often mentioned in the memoirs of the Braunschweig-born writer Ricarda Huch , who lived as a child at Hohetorwall 11 (at that time still Hohetorpromenade ) in the immediate vicinity of the Oppenheimers.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Reinhard Bein: Ewiges Haus - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig , p. 191
  2. Reinhard Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). P. 319
  3. ^ Ebeling: The Jews in Braunschweig: Legal, social and economic history from the beginnings of the Jewish community to emancipation (1282–1848). P. 328
  4. Bein: Ewiges Haus - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig , p. 192f
  5. Bein: Ewiges Haus - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig , p. 191
  6. ^ Ebeling: The Jews in Braunschweig: Legal, social and economic history from the beginnings of the Jewish community to emancipation (1282–1848). P. 298
  7. Bein: You lived in Braunschweig. Biographical notes on the Jews buried in Braunschweig (1797 to 1983). P. 320
  8. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Oppenheimer Bankhaus , In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume , p. 101
  9. ↑ Stages of life in Braunschweig - In the footsteps of Ricarda Huch ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.5 MB)
  10. ^ Ricarda Huch : Memories of your own life. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1980, p. 121