Ferdinand Beit (chemist)

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Ferdinand Beit (born July 27, 1817 in Hamburg ; † April 1, 1880 there ) was a German entrepreneur, co-founder of today's Aurubis and BASF .

Life

Ferdinand Beit comes from a well-known Hamburg family of Sephardic origin. He was the son of the cloth merchant Philipp Raphael Beit and his grandfather Marcus Salomon Beit (1734–1810) was the founder of the gold-silver separating company at I. Elbstraße 43. Ferdinand Beit attended the Hamburg School of Scholars at the Johanneum . He studied medicine at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic , in Munich and obtained a medical doctorate in Berlin.

Back in Hamburg he got into the family business & Co. RL Beit one. In 1846, together with Cesar Godeffroy , he founded the "Elbkupferwerk", the Elbhütten-Affinier- und Handelsgesellschaft , from which he separated the Beitsche Silberscheide in 1866 and, with the help of the Norddeutsche Bank, transformed today's Aurubis into Norddeutsche Affinerie AG , of which he was chairman of the supervisory board Was death.

Together with his brother Siegfried, he founded under the holding company Beit & Co. , the Beit & Philippi Chilesalpeterfabrik and subsequent chemical factory of book and stone inks in Hamburg-Winterhude on Goldbekkanal . He also participated in the founding of Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik AG , which was merged into IG Farben AG in 1924 .

Villa Beit: Entrance to the Milky Way

Ferdinand Beit was married to Johanna (1829–1915), the daughter of the influential Mannheim banker Seligmann Ladenburg . One of his children was the son of the same name and member of the Hamburg Parliament, Ferdinand Beit Junior . The youngest of four sons - Eduard Beit von Speyer (1860–1933) - became the owner of the leading Frankfurt banking house Lazard Speyer-Ellissen from 1896 to 1928 by marrying into the Speyer family . One nephew was Alfred Beit , the gold diamond magnate and later co-founder of De Beers .

After his death, Beit's wife Johanna lived in the Villa Beit, built in 1890/1891 by Martin Haller , on Milky Way and Harvestehuder Weg in Hamburg-Pöseldorf.

Works

  • About the price difference of the one u. outgoing silver, 1845
  • 4th Annual Report on the Hamburg Association Against Animal Cruelty, Made on behalf of the Board of Directors, 1846.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Whether the Beits descended from Sephardic or Akenasian Jews is disputed in research. Henning Albrecht writes about this in his biography of Alfred Beit: “Perhaps the assignment of the Beits to the Sephardi was born from the wish of the biographers to surround the family with the esprit of 'noble origins' from an early age and to place their later economic success in a long tradition “And rather advocates ancestry from Ashkenazi Jews. See p. 12 there.
  2. ↑ AR: With the success came the poison . Norddeutsche Affinerie has existed for 125 years. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 135 , June 13, 1991, pp. 18 ( abendblatt.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Dieter Thiele, Reinhard Saloch: From the meadow ground to the industrial belt . Canal trips through past and present. Ed .: Barmbek history workshop. VSA, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-87975-865-4 , p. 83 .
  4. ^ Beit von Speyer, Eduard. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ Forsthausstrasse No. 70 - Eduard Beit von Speyer (1860-1933). In: Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen a closer look: The Sachsenhausen Westend - The Kennedyallee. Gerda Henkel Foundation, Science Portal, July 13, 2019, accessed on March 14, 2020 (to read, scroll down to “Forsthausstrasse No. 70”).
  6. ↑ Alfred Beit. Hamburger and Diamantenkönig, family table Beit page 139 (PDF file; 4.32 MB)
  7. ^ Ralf Lange: Architekturführer Hamburg , Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-930698-58-7 also as a google book
personal data
SURNAME Beit, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1880
Place of death Hamburg