Eduard Wiener of Worlds
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Eduard Wiener (born July 7, 1822 in Prague , † October 15, 1886 in Vienna ), from 1867 Eduard Wiener Ritter von Welten , occasionally Eduard Ritter Wiener von Welten , was an Austrian wholesaler and banker of the Ringstrasse era .
Life
He was born the son of the Jewish wholesaler Hermann Wiener († 1874) in the Prague ghetto , but later converted to Catholicism . Wiener married Henriette Goldschmidt (1829–1894), daughter of the banker Benedikt Hayum Goldschmidt (1798–1873, founder of the BH Goldschmidt banking house in Frankfurt am Main ), consul of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany , and Jeanette Kann (1802–1848) in 1854 - a family closely related to the Rothschilds . Henriette was the sister of the banker and art patron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild .
Eduard Wiener lived in Vienna as a wholesaler and head of his own bank "Eduard Wiener", president of the Austrian Creditanstalt and the Danube Steamship Company . He was the landlord of Leopoldsdorf in Marchfelde ( Lower Austria ). In addition, Wiener was the royal Portuguese consul general . In Vienna he had his Palais Wiener von Welten built on Schwarzenbergplatz in 1869 .
After being awarded the 3rd Class Iron Crown Order , Wiener was elevated to the Austrian knighthood with the addition of “von Welten” on June 30, 1867 in Vienna . In addition, he was raised to the Portuguese nobility on March 20, 1873 for his services as Portuguese consul general by King Pedro I.
Wiener was buried in the old Israelite section of the Vienna Central Cemetery in a mausoleum designed by the architect Max Fleischer and built by Eduard Hauser , probably the most famous Viennese stonemason company of its time. His son Alfred Wiener Ritter von Welten, first lieutenant in the reserve, died in a duel in Doboj in Bosnia on June 13, 1886 and was also buried in this mausoleum. His younger son Rudolf Ritter Wiener von Welten became heir .
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X , pp. 186f.
- Genealogical paperback of noble houses in Austria . Maas' Sons, 1905, p. 558.
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Leopold von Lämel In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, p. 401.
Mentioned in the article “ Leopold von Lämel ” (1790–1867); Eduard Wiener was Lamel's nephew. - Sigmund Mayer : The Viennese Jews. Commerce, culture, politics. 1700-1900. Löwit, 1917, p. 289. ( Google books )
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women from all times and countries. Druckerei Orient, 1925, p. 280. ( Google Booke )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fredric Bedoire: The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture, 1830–1930. Translated into English by Robert Tanner. KTAV Publishing House, 2004, ISBN 0-88125-808-3 , pp. 328f. With a large photo of the mausoleum. ( Google books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiener von Welten, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Viennese Knight of Worlds, Eduard; Wiener von Welten, Eduard Ritter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian wholesaler and banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1886 |
| Place of death | Vienna |