August de Weerth

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Peter August de Weerth (born October 30, 1832 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ); † January 6, 1885 there ) was a German banker .

Life

August de Weerth came from an old Elberfeld bourgeois family. After visiting the school in Elberfeld (1844-1849) and high school there, he studied at the University of Heidelberg Law and became in 1852 a member of the Corps Suevia . After completing his studies, he returned to Elberfeld and worked as a lawyer and banker. Here he was one of the founders of the Bergisch-Märkische Bank in 1871 and became its first director. He was a city ​​councilor for Elberfeld .

literature

  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985). Heidelberg 1985, No. 441

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter August de Weerth on www.albrecht-blank.de
  2. ↑ Brigitte Alexander, Gisela Schmoeckel: Righteous, wealthy and godly - The “not entirely insignificant” life of the reindeer Peter de Weerth (1767–1855) . bgv-wuppertal.de ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 679 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv-wuppertal.de
  3. ↑ Statistics of the Elberfeld high school, p. 75, no. 130 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 121 , 491
personal data
SURNAME Weerth, August de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weerth, Peter August de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1885
Place of death Elberfeld