Carl Ladenburg

Carl Ladenburg, honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim

Carl Ladenburg (* 19th June 1827 in Mannheim , † 4. October 1909 ibid) was a banker and owner of the bank WH Ladenburg & Sons in third-generation member of the Baden state parliament , honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim, Privy Councilor of Commerce and Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Consul (1874-1909).

family

Ladenburg came from a well-known Jewish family in Mannheim (see also: Jewish life in Mannheim ) and was the eldest son of the Mannheim banker Seligmann Ladenburg (1797–1873), managing partner of the banking house WH Ladenburg & Sons, and the merchant's daughter Julie Goldschmidt (1800–1859) ) from Kassel .

On May 11, 1859, he married Ida Goldschmidt (* December 16, 1840 in Kassel; † November 10, 1928 in Mannheim), the daughter of the businessman Siegmund Goldschmidt (1805–1868), co-owner of the company Gebr. Goldschmidt Indigo- u. Farbwarenhandlung in Kassel, and Wilhelmine Büding (1815–1894), whose grandfather was the founder of the bank, Moses Büding, in Kassel. Ida Ladenburg stood out in Mannheim through her voluntary work: she was president of the Badischer Frauenverein, branch association Mannheim, since 1904, and for many years she was president of the servants association.

Ladenburg's daughter, the women's rights activist Julie Ladenburg, married the lawyer Ernst Bassermann (1854–1917) in 1881 , who later became chairman of the National Liberal Party and a member of the German Reichstag .

His grandfather was Wolf Hajum Ladenburg (1766–1851), the founder of the Ladenburg bank in Mannheim.

Life

Ladenburg joined his parents' bank as early as 1843 at the age of 16 after attending the public school. From 1850 to 1853 he worked in Paris and London and then devoted himself intensively to his parents' banking house. With his wedding (1859) he became a partner. After his father left, he became a managing partner of the bank.

The banking house "WH Ladenburg & Sons" around 1907

In 1904/1905, Ladenburg experienced the transformation of his banking house into the Süddeutsche Disconto-Gesellschaft , whose supervisory board chair he took over until he passed it on to his son-in-law Ernst Bassermann. This new company was an offshoot of the Deutsche Disconto-Gesellschaft , which became part of Deutsche Bank in 1929 .

He was partner and board member of numerous local and regional companies. For example, he was a partner in Dr. H. Haas'schen Buchdruckerei, publisher of the Mannheimer Generalanzeiger and chairman of the supervisory board of the Badische Bank, which he co-founded in 1870 (today: Baden-Württembergische Bank ), the Alkali-Werke Westeregeln , the Rheinische Elektrizitätsgesellschaft , the Badische Rück- u. Co-insurance company (later Frankona ), the Waldhof pulp factory , the Association of German Oelfabriken , the Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation (today: Südzucker AG ). He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Süddeutsche Jute-Industrie , the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Darmstadt, the Schuckert-Gesellschaft in Nuremberg, the Badische Assekuranz-Gesellschaft , the Vita-Versicherungsgesellschaft (later Hamburg-Mannheimer ), the Mannheimer Dampfschleppschiffahrts-Gesellschaft and other companies .

Ladenburg was a member of the Chamber of Commerce from 1864 to 1909, and from 1868 he was one of the first commercial judges .

Ladenburg was also politically active: he took a leading position in the National Liberal Party . The city of Mannheim sent him 1887-1891 and 1893-1897 as a member of the Baden state parliament. Florian Waldeck says : “ He did not speak often in parliament, but when it did, his statements were filled with the spirit of the experienced man who was one of the best experts on our economic life. “In addition, Ladenburg was a member of the Mannheim Citizens' Committee for years.

On May 11, 1909, on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary , the Ladenburgs donated 100,000 marks to the Mannheim women's association for the construction of a women's home in the former Grand Ducal Institute.

On October 4, 1909, Ladenburg died of a stroke in Mannheim . He is buried with his wife in the Jewish cemetery in Mannheim (field C II Fam, row 01, grave 03).

Honors

• On the occasion of the city's anniversary in 1907, Ladenburg was made an honorary citizen.
• Since 1909 - after a temporary renaming during the Nazi regime - there is still Karl-Ladenburg-Strasse in Mannheim-Neuostheim , named after the Mannheim honorary citizen .
• On the occasion of the bank's 100th anniversary in 1885, Grand Duke Friedrich I appointed him to the Council of Commerce , later he was appointed to the Privy Council of Commerce.

Orders and decorations

• Imperial Austrian Order of the Iron Crown (approx. 1874), with which the granting of hereditary nobility was associated in Austria

Web links

Commons : Carl Ladenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ladenburg and the "Mannheimer Generalanzeiger"

References

1. ↑ Florian Waldeck: Ladenburg, in: Alte Mannheimer Familien, writings of the Mannheim Family History Association, self-published, Mannheim 1920 (reprint 1986).

literature

• Leopold Ladenburg : Family tree of the Ladenburg family , Verlag J. Ph. Walther, Mannheim 1882.
• Florian Waldeck: Ladenburg , in: Alte Mannheimer Familien, writings of the Mannheim Family History Association, self-published, Mannheim 1920 (reprint 1986).
• B. Rosenthal: The Origin of the Ladenburg Family , Israelitisches Gemeindeblatt, 13th year, No. 10, Mannheim 1935.
• Hermann Schäfer:  Ladenburg, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 388 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ladenburg, Carl. In: Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 113-114, ISBN 3-17-008696-0 .
• Sigismund von Dobschütz: The ancestors of Elisabeth Goldschmidt from Kassel and Mannheim. - First publication: Hessische Familienkunde (HFK), publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Familienkunde Societies in Hessen, Volume 24, Issue 4/1998, page 161f., Verlagdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch, 1998; ISSN  0018-1064 . - New publication with additions and corrections: "Maajan - The Source", Issue 76, Swiss Association for Jewish Genealogy, Zurich 2005; ISSN  1011-4009 .

See also

• Ladenburg (family)
• Ladenburg Bank
• Jewish life in Mannheim