Carl Heine (banker)

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Carl Heine (actually Beer Carl Heine , born January 20, 1810 in Hamburg ; died July 3, 1865 there ) was a German banker and philanthropist .

After the death of his father in 1844, the son of the banker Salomon Heine took over the management of the banking house Heckscher & Co. Before that, he had founded a real estate company with August Abendroth and Adolph Jencquel in 1837 , which played a major role in the development of what is now Hamburg's Uhlenhorst district . From his large fortune, which according to various statements amounted to between 17 and 30 million marks, he donated significant sums to the Israelite Hospital and the Hamburg Art Gallery during his lifetime . The Kunsthalle had a portrait made of him, painted by the painter Hermann Steinfurth .

Carl Heine had a distant relationship with his famous cousin, the poet Heinrich Heine , throughout his life, not least because of financial disputes after the death of Salomon Heine . A reconciliation only came about when Carl Heine visited the seriously ill poet in Paris in 1847.

Carl Heine was married to Cécile-Charlotte Furtado (born in Paris in 1821, died in Rocquencourt in 1896).

Karlstrasse in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst was named after Carl Heine .

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SURNAME Heine, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heine, Beer Carl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1865
Place of death Hamburg