Daniel Meinertzhagen (banker)

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Daniel Meinertzhagen V. , (born December 8, 1801 in Bremen , † July 12, 1869 in London ) was a German merchant and English merchant and banker.

biography

Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire , the Meinertzhagen family seat

Daniel Meinertzhagen V. comes from an old merchant family. His great-grandfather was the businessman and Bremen Senator Daniel Meinertzhagen II (1697–1765), his grandfather Daniel Meinertzhagen III. (1733–1807) was a Bremen merchant and parent man in Bremen and councilor in the Bremen council and his father was the merchant Daniel Meinertzhagen IV (1772–1848).

Daniel Meinertzhagen V. moved to England after his father's company went bankrupt in 1826 and was naturalized in England in 1837. He married Amelia Huth (1801–1887), the daughter of the banker Frederick Huth (1777–1864) and sister of Henry Huth (1815–1878) (banker and book collector), in 1833, and was accepted into his father-in-law's bank from 1833 and in 1850 Partner of the Frederick Huth & Co. bank , which became the second most important Anglo-German commercial bank after the Rothschilds .

As an English merchant and banker, Meinertzhagen supported trade relations between England and the Bremen economy. Therefore, he was in 1859, together with Albert Schumacher, Bremen's Consul General in Baltimore , honorary citizen of Bremen . Bremen's honorary citizenship is the highest honor bestowed on personalities who have made a name for themselves in the country.

His only son Daniel Meinertzhagen VI. (1842–1910), married to Georgina Potter (1850–1914), was a senior partner at the bank. His son from his second marriage was the British colonel and naturalist ( ornithologist ) Richard Meinertzhagen (1878–1967).

literature

  • Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .
  • H. Gerdes: The fates of a Bremen merchant family , part II. In: Weser newspaper . Bremen September 1921.
  • Georgina Meinertzhagen: A Bremen Family . Reprint: Memphis / Tennessee, General Books 2010, ISBN 978-1-154-64262-9 . (contains the travel diary of his European trip in English from pages 10 to 52).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georgina Meinertzhagen: A Bremen Family . Reprint: General Books, Memphis, Tennessee, 2010, pp. 2 and 105f.
personal data
SURNAME Meinertzhagen, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinertzhagen V., Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and English merchant and banker
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1869
Place of death London