Bank house Seeligmann
The Seeligmann bank in Karlsruhe was originally founded by Albert Haas and was taken over and renamed by his nephew Alfred Seeligmann (* August 12, 1846 - June 5, 1917) in 1877 . In 1916 the Jewish private bank was bought by the Mitteldeutsche Creditbank .
history
In 1870 Albert Haas and other partners had a commercial building built on Friedrichsplatz in Karlsruhe, where he ran a banking business. In 1877 Alfred Seeligmann took over the bank and continued it under the name of banking business Alfred Seeligmann & Cie . In the meantime, the building belonged to the Badische Bank in Mannheim .
Alfred Seeligmann was the son of the merchant Julius Seeligmann (* 1815 in Karlsruhe; † 1890) and Rosalie nee Haas (* 1823 in Karlsruhe; † 1893). In 1875 he married his cousin Sophie († 1896) from Mannheim, the daughter of Henriette nee Haas and the banker Moritz Fraenckel.
In 1880 the apartment and the bank offices were relocated to the own house at Kaiserstraße 96. In 1891 the Landau architect Ludwig Levy set up a new cash room.
In 1902 Oskar Seeligmann joined his father's bank as an employee and two years later he became a partner in the bank. From 1906 the bank was called Alfred & Oskar Seeligmann .
The senior boss Alfred Seeligmann was a member of the supervisory boards of the following companies: Dyckerhoff & Widmann , Eisenwerke Gaggenau , Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation Waghäusel (now Südzucker AG ), Baden cotton spinning and weaving mill Neurod , Mühlburger Brauerei-Gesellschaft (formerly Seldenecksche Brewery), chemical factory ( formerly Goldenberg Geromont & Cie), spinning mill and weaving mill Offenburg , Mitteldeutsche Creditbank (Frankfurt a. M.) and commercial and advance bank Karlsruhe .
Alfred Seeligmann planned a new five-story building for the bank at Kaiserstraße 96. The architects commissioned were G. Betzel and F. Betzel. On January 1, 1916, the bank and the building were sold to Mitteldeutsche Creditbank and the old building was demolished in April of the same year. Mitteldeutsche Creditbank merged with Commerzbank in 1929 .
literature
- Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Jews in Karlsruhe. Contributions to their history up to the Nazi seizure of power . Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1988 (2nd revised edition 1990)