Emil Meyer (banker)

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Portrait - relief in the marble medallion of the banker Emil Meyer on the tomb in the Stöcken cemetery ;
Architect: Heinrich Köhler , dated 1901

Emil Meyer (born April 19, 1841 in Hanover ; † March 26, 1899 there ) was a German banker and secret councilor .

Life

Born in the royal seat of what was then the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of the Jewish banker Adolph Meyer , Emil Meyer - according to the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter from 1914 - “[…] looked after the wounded in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71 as well as later great merits in promoting charitable endeavors ”.

Emil Meyer had already taken over the banking house Adolph Meyer together with his brother Sigmund Meyer, who was appointed secret councilor in 1870, after the death of their father in 1866 , and continued its tradition .

Emil Meyer's tomb at the Stöcken city cemetery was included in a list drawn up by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation as one of more than 130 tombs worth preserving there . It can be found in department 1, number 1.

Emil-Meyer-Strasse

Emil-Meyer-Strasse in the Hanover district of Vahrenwald , which was still laid out during the German Empire in 1911, posthumously honored the charitable banker by giving it its name. At the time of National Socialism , the street name was abolished in the year of the seizure of power in 1933 and replaced by the name Besselstraße, after the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel . Only after the end of the Second World War and still during the time of the British occupation zone was the traffic connection renamed back to Emil-Meyer-Straße in 1945.

See also

Web links

Commons : Emil Meyer (banker)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Alain Guggenheim: Emil Meyer , family tree as “family history of Alain Guggenheim” on the gw.geneanet.org site

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Helmut Zimmerman : Emil-Meyer-Strasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 71.
  2. ↑ a b c Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): Bankhaus Adolph Meyer , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the assistance of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubilee Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 152
  3. ↑ Peter Schulze : Adolph Meyer. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 252.
  4. ↑ Silke Beck, Cordula Wächter (Red.), Michael Krische : Stadtfriedhof Stöcken , brochure with 32 mostly illustrated pages plus folding plan, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Green, Hanover: Department of Environment and Urban Green, 2009, pp. 7, 21, 32.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and banker, secret councilor and benefactor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1899
Place of death Hanover