Alexander von Stieglitz

Baron Alexander von Stieglitz Ludwigowitsch ( Russian Барон Александр Людвигович фон Штиглиц ; September 1 * ^{. Jul} / 13. September  1814 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † October 20 ^jul. / 1. November  1884 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian banker , industrialist , patron and philanthropist .

Life

Baron Alexander von Stieglitz

Alexander von Stieglitz, the second son of the banker Baron Ludwig von Stieglitz with the Stieglitz & Co bank , studied at the University of Dorpat and then went to the Imperial Russian civil service as a member of the Industry Council of the Ministry of Finance.

After his father's death in 1843, Stieglitz inherited the Stieglitz & Co banking house and, like his father, became the Tsar's banker . 1840-1850 placed it very successful six 4% - government bonds to finance the construction of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad . At the height of the Crimean War , he arranged for a significant foreign loan. He also owned factories in Narva and St. Petersburg.

In 1846 Stieglitz was elected chairman of the stock exchange committee. He was thus involved in all financial operations of the Imperial Russian Council of Ministers. In 1857 he founded the Russian Railways Company with others . In 1860 he liquidated all of his commercial companies and also retired from chairing the stock exchange committee to become governor of the state bank newly established by Tsar Alexander II . In 1866 he gave up this post and left civil service.

In 1876 Stieglitz founded the Petersburg Central School for Technical Drawing , which became today's Stieglitz Applied Arts Academy . In 1878 he also donated a museum for the benefit of the students at his central school, today's Stieglitz-Kunstgewerbe-Museum in St. Petersburg.

Baron Goldfinch Drawing School

Baron Stieglitz Decorative Arts Museum

Stieglitz found his grave in Ivangorod in the Trinity Church, which he had built for his factory workers. Since his son had died as a child, his huge fortune fell to the adopted daughter Nadezhda Junewa, who was found as a baby in a basket in Stieglitz's dacha garden and was the illegitimate daughter of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich .

Honors (selection)

• Order of Saint Stanislaus 3rd class
• Order of Saint Vladimir 4th class
• Order of Saint Anne, 2nd class

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• ZAO "SAINT-PETERSBURG.COM": Alexander von Stieglitz (accessed on September 6, 2015)
• Central Bank of Russia : Alexander Ludwigowitsch Stieglitz (Russian, accessed September 6, 2015)
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