Emil von Oppenheim
Emil Freiherr von Oppenheim (born January 22, 1862 in Cologne ; † February 4, 1956 at Jagdhaus Steffeln near Gerolstein ) was a German banker .
Life
Emil von Oppenheim was the third son of Albert and Paula von Oppenheim. From 1881 he studied law at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . Like his brother Max von Oppenheim , he became active in the Corps Palatia Strasbourg in 1883 . As an inactive , he moved to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Philipps-Universität Marburg .
After the legal traineeship in Cologne and the doctorate to Dr. iur. In 1885 in Göttingen he became a cavalry officer in the hussar regiment "King Humbert of Italy" (1st Kurhessisches) No. 13 in Frankfurt-Bockenheim . As Rittmeister of the reserve , he later resigned in order to join his father's bank Sal. Oppenheim in Cologne on October 1, 1882 . He headed it from 1893 to 1913, ten years of which as senior director. In 1894 he married Freiin Maria von Pergler Perglas (1871-1959), with whom he had three children. The family lived in since 1910 to Villenkolonie Cologne-Marienburg belonging Palais Oppenheim . After 1913 he settled on Gut Ramersdorf as a manor owner .
Oppenheim was chairman of the supervisory board of Motorenwerke Mannheim AG and Hilgers AG . He was a member of the supervisory board of Westfälische Eisen- und Drahtwerke AG and the mechanical engineering company Karlsruhe . In the Rhine Province and the Province of Westphalia he was Consul General for the Kingdom of Italy (1894–1906) and the Kingdom of Saxony (from 1912).
Oppenheim experienced five German forms of government and died at the age of 94 in Steffeln in the Eifel .
Awards
- Commerce Council
- Iron cross on a white ribbon
- Landwehr service award, 1st class
- Iron crescent
- Mount of Olives Cross
- Saxon War Merit Cross
- Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- Commander of the Knightly Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus
literature
- Oppenheim, Emil, Abraham, Hubert, Freiherr von. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1361.
- Finkenberg: Emil Freiherrn von Oppenheim in memory. Deutsche Corpszeitung 57 (1956), p. 83 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 34 , 46
- ↑ Viola Effmert, Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie: Cultural Promotion in the 19th Century , 2006, p. 299
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oppenheim, Emil von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oppenheim, Emil Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German private banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th February 1956 |
| Place of death | at Gerolstein |