Elisabeth Berenberg

Elisabeth Berenberg

Johann Hinrich Gossler

Elisabeth Berenberg (born December 2, 1749 in Hamburg ; † January 16, 1822 there ) was a German banker in Hamburg.

Life

"Elisabeth Gossler b. Berenberg ”,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Berenberg was the sole heiress of the Berenberg banking family, of Dutch origin, and was the first woman to be a general partner of the Berenberg trading and banking house from 1790–1800 . She was the daughter of the banker Johann Berenberg (1718–1772) and was named after her grandmother Anna Elisabeth Amsinck (1690–1748). With Elisabeth Berenberg, the Berenberg family died out in the male line in 1822.

She was married to the banker Johann Hinrich Gossler , and was u. a. Mother of Hamburg Senator Johann Heinrich Gossler , grandmother of Hamburg's First Mayor Hermann Gossler and great-great-grandmother of First Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard . Her great-grandson Johann Berenberg Gossler was ennobled in 1888 as von Berenberg-Gossler . Her eldest daughter Anna Henriette Gossler was married to Ludwig Erdwin Seyler , partner or senior of the Berenberg trading house from 1788/90.

Elisabeth Berenberg is commemorated on the double collecting grave plate of the Gossler family in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, Ohlsdorf Cemetery .

literature

• Joh.Berenberg, Gossler & Co .: The history of a German private bank , Berenberg Bank , Hamburg 1990
• Percy Ernst Schramm : Merchants at home and across the sea. Hamburg evidence of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries , Hamburg, Hoffmann and Campe, 1949
• Percy Ernst Schramm: Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German Cultural History in the Light of the Fate of a Hamburg Bourgeois Family (1648-1948) , Volume 1, Göttingen, 1963
• Percy Ernst Schramm: "Merchants during occupation, war and siege (1806–1815): Hamburg's trade in the French era, illustrated using company and family papers." Tradition: Journal for Company History and Entrepreneur Biography , 4th year, No. 1 (Feb 1959), pp. 1–22 ( JSTOR 40696638 )
• Percy Ernst Schramm: Hamburg merchants in the 2nd half of the 18th century . In: Tradition. Journal for company history and entrepreneur biography 1957, No. 4, pp. 307–332 ( JSTOR 40696554 )