Eduard Beit from Speyer

Eduard Beit , since 1910 Eduard Beit von Speyer , (born September 22, 1860 in Hamburg ; died March 8, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German- Jewish banker , Prussian councilor and owner of the Frankfurt banking house Lazard Speyer-Ellissen .

Life

Eduard Beit came from a well-known Hamburg family of Sephardic origin. His father was the chemist and physician Ferdinand Beit . His mother was Johanna Beit née Ladenburg, daughter of the influential Mannheim banker Seligmann Ladenburg .

His older brother was Ferdinand Beit Junior , who later became a member of the Hamburg parliament .

After commercial training in Hamburg, London, Paris and New York, he became a partner in the Speyer family in 1896 and owner of the leading Frankfurt banking house Lazard Speyer-Ellissen in 1896 .

Ennoblement

Eduard Beit was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on March 23, 1910 with the predicate "von Speyer" in order to secure the continued existence of the family name "Speyer" in Frankfurt am Main.

literature

Herrmann AL Degener: Degeners Who is it? Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 90.

Web links

Beit von Speyer, Eduard in the Hessian biography

Individual evidence

↑ Whether the Beits descended from Sephardic or Akenasian Jews is disputed in research. Henning Albrecht writes about this in his biography of Alfred Beit: “Perhaps the assignment of the Beits to the Sephardi was born from the wish of the biographers to surround the family with the esprit of 'noble origins' from an early age and to place their later economic success in a long tradition “And rather advocates ancestry from Ashkenazi Jews. See p. 12 there.
^ Beit von Speyer, Eduard. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
↑ Forsthausstrasse No. 70 - Eduard Beit von Speyer (1860-1933). In: Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen a closer look: The Sachsenhausen Westend - The Kennedyallee. Gerda Henkel Foundation, Science Portal, July 13, 2019, accessed on March 14, 2020 (to read, scroll down to “Forsthausstrasse No. 70”).
^ Ulrich Eisenbach: Speyer (also Speier since 1792). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 674-676 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Beit from Speyer, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beit, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Jewish banker and Prussian commercial councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 1933
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Whether the Beits descended from Sephardic or Akenasian Jews is disputed in research. Henning Albrecht writes about this in his biography of Alfred Beit: “Perhaps the assignment of the Beits to the Sephardi was born from the wish of the biographers to surround the family with the esprit of 'noble origins' from an early age and to place their later economic success in a long tradition “And rather advocates ancestry from Ashkenazi Jews. See p. 12 there.

[2] Beit von Speyer, Eduard. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

[3] Forsthausstrasse No. 70 - Eduard Beit von Speyer (1860-1933). In: Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen a closer look: The Sachsenhausen Westend - The Kennedyallee. Gerda Henkel Foundation, Science Portal, July 13, 2019, accessed on March 14, 2020 (to read, scroll down to “Forsthausstrasse No. 70”).

[4] Ulrich Eisenbach: Speyer (also Speier since 1792). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 674-676 ( digitized version ).