August Friedrich Bloch

August Friedrich Bloch , born as Abraham Bloch (born November 4, 1780 or 1781 in Teplitz , † May 10, 1866 in Berlin ) was a German merchant and president of the Prussian maritime trade.

Life

As a merchant, August Friedrich Bloch was successful in the trade in goods between Königsberg (Prussia) and Berlin, and went bankrupt from 1810 due to government intervention with retroactive effect in pricing and calculation. He was therefore repeatedly financially supported by the Prussian state treasury until 1818. When his appeal against the interference was finally rejected by the courts, he became an agent of the Prussian Ministry of the Treasury through the mediation of Karl August von Hardenberg . On further employment by the Prussian financial politician Christian (von) Rother , he later also became an agent of the Prussian debt administration as well as theMaritime trading company . From 1830 to 1847 he was still an agent for the Schickler family . In 1848 he was appointed President of the Maritime Trade as Rother's successor and held this position until 1854. During his term of office the disinvestment of a large part of the industrial division of the maritime trade, which was stabilized by this liquidity improvement and turned into a pure banking and trading company. This restructuring , initiated in 1845, combined with the subsequent dismantling of goods trading activities, was of fundamental importance for its later development into the Prussian State Bank. His successor as president of the maritime trade was Otto von Camphausen .

Bloch was a member of the Society of Friends in Berlin.

family

Bloch took the first name August Friedrich when he was baptized in 1816 . In 1816 he married Charlotte Sophie Löwe, born Sara Leo ; she was the aunt of the Shakespeare researcher, poet, translator and philanthropist Friedrich August Leo (1820–1898).

Awards

• Honorary Citizen of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1850)
• Order of the Red Eagle , 3rd Class (1853)

Trivia

In the 1986 film adaptation of Christian von Rothers for ARD under the title Christian Rother - Banker for Prussia , his colleague August Friedrich Bloch is also considered in a leading role.

literature

• Hans Bellée :  Bloch, August Friedrich (formerly Abraham). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 305 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Leo, Friedrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 646-653.
2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung 1853, p. 431
3. ↑ Christian Rother - Banker for Prussia ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Dietmar Pertsch: Jüdische Lebenswelten in feature films and television games: Films on the history of the Jews from their beginnings to emancipation in 1871 , Walter de Gruyter, 1992, p. 160 ff.