Eugen Landau
Eugen Freiherr von Landau (born March 17, 1852 in Breslau , † February 19, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German banker , industrialist and philanthropist .
family
Eugen Landau was the son of Jacob von Landau and Rosalie, née Ledermann. He married Anna Sobernheim, nee Magnus. She was the widow of Adolph Sobernheim. His stepchildren were Walter Sobernheim , Curt Sobernheim , Moritz Sobernheim and Frieda Sobernheim, who married the industrialist Georg Hahn.
Life
Eugen Landau attended the secondary school in Breslau. He went to Berlin and Bern to study . In Bern he joined the Corps Rhenania Bern , which received him in 1873. After an apprenticeship at Mitteldeutsche Creditbank and the L. Behrens & Sons banking house, he joined his father's bank in Berlin and Breslau as a partner.
After the death of the banker Jacob Landau, he took over the Jacob Landau banking business, which was active in Berlin and Breslau, from 1882 onwards, which he brought into the National Bank for Germany in 1898 in the wake of the stock market crisis , of which he was now chairman of the supervisory board . At the beginning of 1929, Landau was particularly involved in the merger of Commerz- und Privatbank with Mitteldeutsche Creditbank.
He was the director and founder of numerous banking and industrial companies and since 1875 Spanish consul general . During the First World War he was Rittmeister in the cuirassier regiment "Graf Gessler" (Rheinisches) No. 8 in Deutz and with Major d. R. a rank like no other non-baptized.
He was u. a. active in railway construction, as a co-founder of the AEG and the Schultheiss brewery (previously Patzenhofer), the largest brewery in the world at the time. For two decades he was chairman of the supervisory board of the National Bank for Germany and the Berlin hotel company "Kaiserhof".
As a philanthropist, he was a co-founder of the Aid Association of German Jews , he sponsored the Jewish old age aid, the Auerbach orphanage, the Invalidenbank and was President of the Pro-Palestine Committee.
Like his brother, he had renounced the title of nobility conferred on his father.
Awards
- Order of the Crown II class
- Grand Cross of the Royal Spanish Order of Isabella
- Star for the Royal Spanish Order of Charles III.
- Commander of the Order of Merit of Saint Michael
- Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Portuguese villa-Viscosa
- Greek Order of the Redeemer
- Gold medal from the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the occasion of his 80th birthday
literature
- Landau, Eugene. 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. 1061.
- Manfred Pohl: Landau, Eugen Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 482 ( digitized version ).
- Edited by the editor of the magazine for the entire credit system and Jörg E. Cramer: Enzyklopädisches Lexikon des Geld-, Bank- und Börsenwesens. 4., completely reworked. 1999 edition. ISBN 3-7819-0596-9
Web links
- Newspaper article about Eugen Landau in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 10 , 18.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landau, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landau, Eugen von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1935 |
| Place of death | Berlin |