Anselm Salomon von Rothschild

Anselm Salomon Rothschild, lithograph by Friedrich Lieder , around 1830

Anselm Salomon Freiherr von Rothschild (born January 29, 1803 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 27, 1874 in Vienna ) is the founder of the Austrian Creditanstalt for Trade and Industry .

family

Anselm Salomon Rothschild was the son of Salomon Meyer Freiherr von Rothschilds (1774–1855), the founder of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild banking family , and his wife Caroline Stern (1782–1854). He was married to Charlotte von Rothschild (1807-1859), the eldest daughter of the London banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1830), his father's younger brother, while his sister Betty (1805-1874) was married to the Parisian banker James de Rothschild got married.

children

Anselm Salomon and Charlotte had eight children, four daughters and four sons. After the death of Anselm Salomon, his youngest son Albert took over the management of the bank in Vienna.

1. Mayer Anselm Leon von Rothschild (1827–1828) - lived only one year and four days, from July 7, 1827 to July 11, 1828.
2. Caroline Julie Anselm von Rothschild (1830–1907) later called herself just Julie de Rothschild and married Adolph Carl de Rothschild , the last banker of the Neapolitan branch of the banking house. She became a close friend of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and lived, among other things, on Lake Geneva in the Château Pregny.
3. Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild (1832–1924) was an outstanding musician and married to the Frankfurt banker Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild .
4. Sarah Luisa von Rothschild (1834–1924) married the banker's son Raimondo Franchetti and lived in a. a. the Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti in Venice.
5. Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild (1836–1905) left the banking house in Vienna and became an art collector and patron. He let u. a. build the magnificent Rothschild Gardens in Vienna. He died unmarried and childless.
6. Ferdinand James Anselm von Rothschild (1839–1898) moved to England and had the magnificent Waddesdon Manor built there. After the death of his wife and child in bed, he became an art collector. He died without an heir and appointed his youngest sister Alice von Rothschild as heir.
7. Albert Salomon Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild (1844–1911) later became head of the house and from 1872 continued the banking business of the Rothschild family in Vienna.
8. Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (1847–1922) moved into the immediate vicinity of her eight year older brother Ferdinand James Anselm. There she bought the village and manor house Eythrope . She later inherited Waddesdon Manor, but then moved to the south of France for health reasons. Around her castle in Grasse she maintained a huge garden with at times 100 gardeners. She also died childless and bequeathed her fortune (one of the largest in Britain with £ 92 million) to her wealthy English nephew, Baron Jakob de Rothschild.

activity

From 1859 on, Rothschild gradually withdrew from the Creditanstalt, for which he had raised the majority of the share capital himself, and devoted himself increasingly to the Südbahngesellschaft . For the war of 1866 , Rothschild, who had studied in Berlin, gave neither Austria nor Prussia credit, as he was an unconditional supporter of peace between the two competing monarchies.

As a philanthropist , he founded the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna in 1869 and donated a. a. 1.2 million guilders in will to the Viennese Jewish community. As an art collector, he created the basis for the famous Austrian Rothschild art collection.

He received the city of Vienna's highest distinction, honorary citizenship , in 1847, after his father had been honored with it in 1843; In 1861 he was appointed to the manor house of the Imperial Council by Emperor Franz Joseph I.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Rothschild, Anselm Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 27th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 114–116 ( digitized version ).
• G. Otruba:  Rothschild Anselm Salomon Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 289.

Web links

Commons : Anselm Salomon von Rothschild  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Anselm Salomon von Rothschild in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• The Rothschild dynasty - Anselm v. Rothschild (1803-1874)
• Descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild