Benecke brothers

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The banking house Gebrüder Benecke was an important company in Berlin at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Nicolas (1759–1811), Chrétien (1763–1805) and Etienne Benecke (1768–1806) were the sons of the surgeon Jean Guillaume Benecke from Stolp in Pomerania and his wife Susanne, née. Richard. Chrétien and Etienne founded a goods, forwarding, money and exchange business in Berlin in 1792 and are said to have continued the action of the late banker FW Schütz in Spandauer Strasse 22 in 1794 . In 1795 it was converted into a banking and commission business. In 1812/13 the plot was one of the highest rated companies.

Wilhelm Christian Benecke had been an employee of the company since 1793 and took over the management after the early death of the company founder in 1806. The guardianship of the four children Etienne, Johann Wilhelm (1797–1827), Carl, Etienne (1800–1877) and Louis-Ferdinand, Etienne's eldest brother Nicolas took over. Under Wilhelm Christian Benecke, the bank developed into a first-rate house in Prussia that was recognized throughout Europe. During the French invasion in 1806, the Benecke brothers issued bills of exchange free of charge for the payment of French contributions, together with three other Berlin houses, which the state redeemed gradually. In 1820 a government loan was issued for Norway. In 1820 the son of the late Etienne Benecke, Johann Wilhelm Benecke and the brother of Wilhelm Christian Benecke, Gustav Benecke, were associated. Wilhelm Christian Benecke withdrew completely from the company in 1823. Together with Mendelssohn & Fränkel and other bankers and banking houses, the Benecke brothers founded the Berliner Kassenverein in 1823 . On February 1, 1826, the bank went bankrupt.

literature

  • Conversations-Lexicon , New Series, Volume 1, A – Cz, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1822
  • Rolf Straubel: Merchants and manufacturing entrepreneurs , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995
  • Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Wilhelm and Etienne Benecke. From the beginnings of the Hamburg gymnastics association in 1816. In: Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter , 11 (1985), VHG , pp. 159–173. ( online )

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Footnotes

  1. ^ (Johann) Wilhelm Benecke was the founder of the Hamburg gymnastics club from 1816 and its first chairman until his return to Berlin in April 1819; see references to Hauschild-Thiessen.
  2. ↑ Etienne, also known as Stephan Benecke, was also chairman of the Hamburg gymnastics association for a year in 1822/23; see references to Hauschild-Thiessen.