Fritz von Friedlaender-Fuld

Friedrich (Fritz) Friedlaender , from 1906 from Friedlaender-Fuld (born August 30, 1858 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia , † July 16, 1917 at Gut Lanke , Mark Brandenburg ) was a German coal and steel entrepreneur .

family

He was the son of the Jewish merchant Emanuel Friedlaender, owner of the coal wholesaler of the same name in Gleiwitz, but himself converted to Protestantism .

Friedlaender was married to Milly Fuld. The two daughter Marie-Anna (1892-1973), a letter partner of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), was married to the British nobleman John Mitford (from the house of the barons Redesdale) in their first marriage, married the second marriage Diplomat and last foreign minister of the German Empire Richard von Kühlmann (1873–1948) and finally in third marriage Rudolph von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1881–1962), the second son of the Frankfurt banker Maximilian Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843–1940).

Friedlaender was raised to the Prussian nobility on February 27, 1906 with a diploma dated February 7, 1910 as royal Prussian Privy Councilor and Fideikommissherr on Gut Groß-Gorschütz in the Upper Silesian district of Ratibor with the name "von Friedlaender-Fuld" (after his wife).

Life

Friedlaender was an Upper Silesian coal magnate and is considered the founder of the Upper Silesian coke industry in Hindenburg . On the site of the Königin-Luise-Grube, the first modern coking plants were built in 1884 at the “Poremba” and “Skalley” pits , which produced ammonia and benzene in addition to coke . In addition, he built several coal mines in the Rybnik coal field and chemical industry facilities in Upper Silesia. Together with partners, he later founded Oberschlesische Kokswerke und Chemische Fabriken AG , which he floated on the stock exchange. From 1894 he moved his economic activities to Niederlausitz , where he invested his capital in lignite mining . For about 900,000 marks he acquired the “Bismarck” lignite mine in Poley with ancillary facilities (briquette factory, brickworks, etc.). In 1897 Friedländer invested in the opening of the "Milly" mine in Bockwitz , where in 1898 a briquette factory was built. Both companies became the basis of the Braunkohlen- und Briquettindustrie AG , BUBIAG for short , which he founded in 1900 and is based in Berlin.

At the request of the mining assessor Otto Spinzig , he founded a joint stock company on January 21, 1913 to operate a copper mine in Bjørkåsen, Norway .

With his fortune of an estimated 46 million marks, he was considered one of the richest people in Germany. He was a member of numerous supervisory boards , including the Deutsche Bank AG (around 1912-1915), was a member of the "Central Committee of the Reichsbank" and the consul general of the Netherlands . In addition, from 1916 to 1917 he was one of the first members of Jewish descent in the Prussian manor house . In 1891 he joined the Berlin Society of Friends . In recognition of his economic and political successes, he received the title of Privy Councilor of Commerce .

In Berlin, Friedlaender lived in the "Friedlaender-Palais", Pariser Platz 5a , built in 1895/1896 by the architect Ernst von Ihne . He also owned the house or property at Pariser Platz 6, which his daughter Marie-Anna later inherited. Previously Friedlaender had 1894 Good Lanke by the heirs of the landowner Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Rederns (1802-1883) leased , general intendant of the Royal stages of Berlin . When the Lanke estate with most of the Count's Redern property was sold to the city of Berlin in 1914 , Friedlaender continued to lease this estate. He waived his right of first refusal , but had the city ​​council of Berlin guarantee the right of residence and the lease for 25 years.

The urn with the ashes of Friedrich von Friedlaender-Fuld was buried in 1917 on Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg in a representative mausoleum designed by William Müller in 1910–1911 . The urn was transferred abroad by the descendants in 1947/1948.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN  0435-2408
2. ↑ According to a chronicle of the early days of the Weimar Republic, he received the Prussian hereditary nobility on the day of the silver wedding anniversary of the imperial couple: Kurt von Reibnitz (published anonymously): Gestalten around Hindenburg. Leading figures of the republic and today's Berlin society. 3rd edition, Reissner, Dresden 1930, p. 186.
3. ^ Copper mine in Norway. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 16, 2015 ; accessed on January 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Friedlaender-Palais with photo ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• Robert Friedlaender: Fritz von Friedlaender-Fuld and the German economy. Ascher Publishing House, Berlin 1918.
• Alfons Perlick :  Friedländer-Fuld, Friedrich (Fritz) Viktor von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 456 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Christoph Fischer, Renate Schein (ed.): "O ewich is so long". The historic cemeteries in Berlin-Kreuzberg. A workshop report. (Accompanying volume to an exhibition at the Landesarchiv Berlin 1987) Berlin 1987
• Acta Borussica , Volume 10 (1909–1918) (PDF file; 2.74 MB)

Web links

• History of Schloss Lanke at www.schloss-lanke.de , last accessed on July 12, 2018
• Friedrich Victor (Fritz) von Friedlaender-Fuld (biography) on the homepage of the art historian Beatrice Vierneisel MA, last accessed on July 12, 2018