Carl von Kaskel

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Michael Ernst Carl Kaskel , from 1867 von Kaskel , from 1869 Freiherr von Kaskel , pseudonym : Carl Lassekk (born October 6, 1797 in Dresden ; † July 31, 1874 there ) was a German banker of Jewish origin, owner of the Kaskel bank and co-founder of Dresdner Bank .

Life

He was the son of the Jewish royal Saxon commercial councilor Michael Kaskel (1775-1845) and Sara Schlesinger (1774-1858) from Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1831 he married in Warsaw Victoria Karoline Eugenie Fränkel (born February 25, 1811 in Warsaw; † March 8, 1843 in Dresden), the daughter of the banker Samuel Leopold Antoni Fränkel (1773-1833) in Warsaw, and had two with her Children, daughter Marie and son Felix (1833-1894).

In 1844 , at the age of 47, Kaskel , who converted from the Mosaic faith to Protestantism and later to Catholicism , took over his father's bank Kaskel , in which he had worked for years and had been instructed in the banking business by his father. As the house banker of the Saxon royal family and royal Saxon Privy Councilor , he financed the German war for Saxony and Austria in 1866 . For this, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I elevated him to the Austrian nobility on October 28, 1867 in Paris , but the diploma was not issued. Two years later, as Vice President of the Saxon Bank , Kaskel was elevated to the Austrian baron status on February 9, 1869 with a diploma from May 19, 1869 in Vienna with the award of the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class . Only a few days later, on June 4, 1869, in Pillnitz, he also received royal Saxon recognition of his baron status .

Kaskel's tomb in the Trinity cemetery

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 German Empire and beyond by the beginning of the 21st century.

He was Consul General of the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway .

Kaskel was already musically gifted as a child and was also active as a composer under the pseudonym Karl Lassekk . For decades he was a longstanding and closest friend of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer . In his name he conducted negotiations with the family of the composer Carl Maria von Weber in 1851/52 . Robert Schumann was one of his correspondence partners .

Kaskel died in Dresden in 1874. His grave is in the Trinity cemetery .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Maria Oettinger, Hugo Schramm-Macdonald: Moniteur des dates, contenant un million de renseignements biographiques , entry Fränkel , 1882
  2. ↑ Felix Freiherr von Kaskel, raised to baron with his father in 1869, was married to Emma Freiin von Oppenheim . When Dresdner Bank was founded, he was its chairman from 1872 to 1894 and was considered the wealthiest man in Dresden after King Albert of Saxony . - Source: Helas: Villenarchitektur Dresden (1999), p. 61
  3. ^ Journal of Corporate History, Volumes 28–29, Society for Corporate History (ed.), 1983, page 176 ( excerpt )
  4. ^ Journal of Company History , page 182 ( excerpt )
  5. ^ Journal of Company History , page 183 ( excerpt )
  6. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI (1987), page 138.
  7. ↑ François-Pierre Lobies: Index bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum (IBN), Volume 3, Part 1, 1973, page 15; - Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden, 1868, page 73 ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon , 1880, page 252 ( excerpt )
  9. ↑ Heinz Becker, Sabine Henze-Döhring: Giacomo Meyerbeer. Correspondence and Diaries , 2006, page 630 ( digitized version )
  10. ↑ Michael Short: Liszt letters in the Library of Congress , Library of Congress (ed.), 2002, page 76 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Kaskel, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaskel, Carl; Kaskel, Carl Freiherr von; Lassekk, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1874
Place of death Dresden