Alexander Schoeller

Julius Alexander Schoeller (born March 24, 1852 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † November 22, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German banker .

Life

The son of the Elberfeld factory owner, city councilor and member of the Chamber of Commerce Carl August Schoeller (1802–1874) and Ida Blank (1811–1891) was born in 1877 after an apprenticeship at the Arthur Blanck banking house and various stays abroad - including in Uruguay , Belgium and Great Britain Director of the Hamburg branch of Deutsche Bank . In 1879 he joined the Prussian Sea Trade as a civil servant and was subsequently awarded the title of Secret Sea Trade Council. In 1884, at the instigation of Adolph von Hansemann, he moved to the management of the Disconto-Gesellschaft , to which he was a personally liable partner until his death.

Focus of the work Schoeller was the one funding the Rhine - Westphalia heavy industry . As a member of the supervisory board of the German-Luxemburgish Mining and Hütten-AG , the RWE , the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , the Eschweiler Bergwerk-Verein and the Nordstern colliery, he was involved in the financing of the mining companies of Hugo Stinnes , August Thyssen and Emil Kirdorf .

On the other hand, he was heavily involved in the financing of German colonial companies , for example the German New Guinea Society and the Otavi Mining and Railway Society .

For his services, Schoeller was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with ribbon and the commander's cross with star of the Austrian Franz Joseph Order .

Alexander Schoeller died in Berlin in 1911 at the age of 59 and was buried in the Schoeller family's hereditary funeral in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The preserved wall grave in the style of historicism made of clinker with black cladding made of syenite was created by the architects Kayser & von Großheim .

family

Julius Alexander Schoeller derived from the Rheinische business family Schoeller , was married to Maria Dirksen (1866-1925), with whom he had two sons and four daughters. His son Alexander (1886–1960) followed his father as a banker and became, among other things, director of the discount company in Saarbrücken , the A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein in Aachen and the Deutsche Bank in Görlitz . His son Alexander Schoeller (1925–1987) married into the Düren branch of the family and took over the family business, Anker Carpet .

Of his four daughters, Maria (* 1896) married the fighter pilot Carl Bolle and their daughter Cornely (Nelly), (* 1903) the resistance fighter Erwin Planck .

literature

Martin L. Müller: Schoeller, Julius Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 368 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Biography of the Historical Society of Deutsche Bank

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 308. Grabmal Schoeller, Alexander . On: http://www.grabpatenschaften-berlin.de (accessed on February 23, 2019).

personal data
SURNAME	Schoeller, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schoeller, Julius Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German banker
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1911
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 308. Grabmal Schoeller, Alexander . On: http://www.grabpatenschaften-berlin.de (accessed on February 23, 2019).