Felix Hecht

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Felix Hecht (born November 27, 1847 in Friedberg , Hessen , † October 18, 1909 on the journey between Eisenach and Weimar ) was a German economist, banker and patron of culture in Mannheim.

Career

Felix Hecht comes from a Jewish family from Friedberg in the Wetterau. He was one of ten children of the merchant and emigration agent Baruch Hecht and his wife Betty, nee. Eagle.

Hecht studied law and social sciences in Gießen , Göttingen and Heidelberg , he received his doctorate in Göttingen on The Roman Calendar Books in 1867 and habilitated in Heidelberg in 1869 with a study of the history of bearer papers in the Netherlands . He was friends with his teacher Johann Caspar Bluntschli . Both were together in the National Liberal Party and, as Freemasons of the Heidelberg Lodge Ruprecht, belonged to the five roses .

In 1871, Bluntschli recommended Hecht as the first director of the then founded Rheinische Hypothekenbank in Mannheim, which developed into one of the leading mortgage banks in Germany. While Hecht was in charge of the bank during the development phase, which should have required full attention, he continued to give lectures at the University of Heidelberg until he gave up lectures at the urging of the press and employers in 1872, but continued to work scientifically, which is reflected in important books on the history of banking, questions of rural loans, problems of cooperative credit organizations and the investment of ward and foundation funds. Hecht's work influenced modern banking management for a long time.

In 1886, Hecht also joined the management of the Pfälzische Hypothekenbank in Ludwigshafen on a part-time basis.

Private life

Villa Hecht (2019)

In 1875, Felix Hecht married Helene Bamberger from Mainz , a niece of the banker and politician Ludwig Bamberger . The couple built a villa in L10.1 in Mannheim, now called Villa Hecht, which became one of Mannheim's cultural centers at the time.

The Hecht couple were friends with Johannes Brahms , who was a guest at the Villa Hecht on visits to Mannheim. The wife Helene ran a salon in which, at least at the turn of the century, important personalities of cultural life - not only from Mannheim - met, for example Franz von Lenbach , who portrayed Helene Hecht. In 1899 the couple helped found the University of Music.

The Hecht couple had four sons, two of whom died as small children. The widow Helene Hecht was deported on October 22, 1940 at the age of 86 and died on the transport to Gurs .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Roman calendar books. A treatise from the area of ​​Roman traffic life , Heidelberg: Mohr 1868.
  • A contribution to the history of bearer papers in the Netherlands , Erlangen: Enke 1869.
  • The stock exchange and stock system of the present and the reform of the stock corporation law , Mannheim: Schneider 1874.
  • Mündel and foundation funds in the German states , Stuttgart: Cotta 1875
  • Banking and banking policy in the southern German states , Jena: Fischer 1880
  • The warrants (warehouse and warehouse pawn tickets); with contributions to the history and statistics of the warehouse system , Stuttgart: Enke 1884.
  • The organization of the land loan in Germany , Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1891/1903
  • The European Land Credit , Vol. 1, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1900

Hecht's letters are in the Bluntschli estate in the State Library in Zurich.

Honors

  • 1892: Order of the Crown of Italy (Officer)
  • 1894: Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion

literature

  • Ms. Schulte: Felix Hecht . In: Badische Biographien , VI. Part: 1901–1910, Heidelberg: Winter 1935, pp. 530–537 ( digitized version ).
  • Bernhard Kirchgässner:  Hecht, Felix. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 173 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bernhard Kirchgässner: Felix Hecht and the Rheinische Hypothekenbank zu Mannheim in the development phase of the German real-estate credit system , in: Hanns Hubert Hofmann (Ed.): Bankers and Bankiers: Büdinger lectures 1976 . Starke, Limburg / Lahn 1978, pp. 45-84.
  • Karl Otto Watzinger: History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 97-98.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Otto Watzinger: History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1984, p. 98 .
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, October 28, 1892.
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, May 25, 1894
personal data
SURNAME Pike, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, banker and patron of culture
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1909
Place of death between Eisenach and Weimar