Eduard von Todesco

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Eduard von Todesco

Eduard Freiherr von Todesco (born April 1, 1814 in Vienna ; † January 17, 1887 there ) was an Austrian entrepreneur , banker and philanthropist .

He came from a Jewish family that originally bore the name Hirschl . Hermann Todesko (1791–1844) had taken on the name of Todesco or Todesko. Since his Italian business partners had difficulties pronouncing his name, they used to announce him as "Tedesco", ie "the Germans". That was the inspiration for the new family name, which also indicated that the wealthy factory owner had achieved social advancement. From 1848 Eduard von Todesco and his brother Moritz ran the wholesale company Hermann Todesco's Sons and an affiliated private bank. In addition, they had owned the Marienthal textile factory since 1858 . In 1861 he was built by Emperor Franz Joseph I in the knighthood raised to 1869 Baron appointed. Thus he belonged to the so-called Second Society .

Eduard Freiherr von Todesco was married to the one who was born in Brno Sophie Gomperz (born July 22, 1825 in Brno, † July 9, 1895 in Vienna), a sister of the well-known classical philologist Theodor Gomperz . Sophie ran one of the most influential salons of the time in Vienna during her marriage .

Palais Todesco on Kärntner Strasse
Grave of the Todesco family in the Dobling cemetery in Vienna

From 1861 to 1884, Eduard had an elongated neo-renaissance building with around 500 rooms built at Kärntner Strasse 51. This Palais Todesco is one of the most important buildings of the so-called Ringstrasse epoch . At first it was completely inhabited by family members and later 2/3 was bought by Gabriele von Oppenheimer.

The children of this couple were:

  • Franziska (called Fanny) (born April 14, 1846 in Vienna; † February 18, 1922 ibid) became the first wife of Henry de Worms on April 28, 1866 (born October 20, 1840 in London; † January 9, 1903 ibid) . Henry was appointed 1st Baron Pirbright of Pirbright in 1895 and lived almost exclusively in England. There were three children from this marriage.
    • Alice Henriette Antoinette von Worms (born April 2, 1865; † 1952), who married Johann Heinrich Boyer Warner († 1891) in 1886 and David MacLaren Morrison in 1892.
    • Dora Sophie Emily von Worms (born June 9, 1869)
    • Constanze Valerie Sophie von Worms (born April 28, 1875; † 1963), married to Maximilian von Löwenstein-Scharfeneck (1871–1952). Her grandson was Rupert Ludwig Ferdinand zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1933-2014), a German-British banker and long-time financial manager of the Rolling Stones .
  • Anna Todesco (born September 26, 1847; † October 31, 1900, see Anna von Lieben ) married Leopold von Lieben on December 3, 1871 (* May 7, 1835; † March 10, 1915)
  • Hermann Todesco (1849–1876)
  • Gabriele (called Yella) (1854–1943) married Ludwig Freiherr von Oppenheimer (1843–1909) landowner, entrepreneur and politician. Their child, Felix Freiherr von Oppenheimer (1874–1938), lived with his mother in Palais Todesco in Vienna in 1883 after their parents divorced. One of his close friends was Hugo von Hofmannsthal .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Müller: Eduard Freiherr von Todesco. AGSÖ at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ Tina Walzer: The Jewish founding members of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank 1816 and their tombs at the Jewish cemetery Währing in Vienna, part 5: Hermann Todesko, founder of a Viennese Ringstrasse family from Pressburg , accessed on February 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Müller: Small Chronicle of Gramatneusiedl, Marienthal and Neu-Reisenberg. AGSÖ at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Hohenemsgenealogie.at
  5. ^ Prince Rupert Loewenstein: "A Prince among Stones", Bloomsbury, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-4088-3279-0
personal data
SURNAME Death Co, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Todesco, Eduard Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur, banker, philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1887
Place of death Vienna