Kaskel Bank

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House Wilsdruffer Straße 20 with a memorial plaque to the former Kaskel bank in the same place

The bank Kaskel was a private bank with headquarters at today Wilsdruffer Straße 20 in Dresden .

history

Memorial plaque at the house at Wilsdruffer Strasse 20.

It was founded in 1771 by Jakob Kaskele, who came from Poland and was appointed court factor in Dresden . The focus was initially on the exchange business . After Jacob's death in 1788, his widow Philippine (1742–1811), who came from Prague, headed the institute. Jacob's son Michael Kaskel (1775–1845) was an army and coin supplier in Dresden. Michael's Evangelical baptized son Carl von Kaskel (1797–1874) was President of the Saxon Bank and financed the German war for Saxony and Austria . For this he was raised to an Austrian baron in 1867. In 1872 the Kaskel bank was converted into a stock corporation, which, under its new name Dresdner Bank, was to become one of the leading credit institutions in the Reich. As the house banker of the royal family, he enjoyed a great reputation at the Dresden royal court.

Carl's son Felix von Kaskel (1833–1894) was from 1872 to 1894 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Dresdner Bank. He married Emma von Oppenheim (1837–1928) in 1857 and was considered the wealthiest man in Dresden after the king. His father-in-law, the Cologne banker Simon Oppenheim , gave the couple the Palais Oppenheim, which was built for the Königsberg and Berlin banker Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim, which was henceforth also known as the Palais Kaskel-Oppenheim .

literature

  • Joachim Felix Kaskel: From Court Factor to Dresdner Bank. The Kaskel entrepreneurial family in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Journal of Company History. 28th vol., No. 3, 1983, ISSN  0342-2852 , pp. 159-187, JSTOR 40694811
  • Simone Lässig : Jewish private banks in Dresden. In: Hans-Peter Lühr (Red.): Industrial city of Dresden? Economic growth in the empire (= contributions to cultural history 61 = Dresdner Hefte. Vol. 18, issue 1). Dresdner Geschichtsverein , Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-910055-53-2 , pp. 85–99.
  • Matthias Lerm: Farewell to old Dresden. Loss of historical building stock after 1945 . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-86151-047-2 .
  • Volker Helas : Villa architecture Dresden. = Villa architecture in Dresden. = Villas in Dresden. Taschen, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8228-9755-8 , p. 61.

Individual evidence

  1. Helas (1999), p. 61

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 3 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 10 ″  E