Hans Franz Passavant (banker)

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Hans Franz Passavant ( December 5, 1751 - November 30, 1834 ) was a Basel banker.

In 1800 he founded the bank Passavant & Cie. , which existed until 1923 and in 1854 was one of the six private banks that merged to form the Bank Corporation, later UBS .

He was married to Marie-Jeanne Martin (* 1761 in Geneva; † 1803), with whom he had four children: the banker Emanuel Passavant (1785–1842), the theologian Theophil Passavant (1787–1864), Margarete Elisabeth Passavant (1783 –1859) and Valerie Passavant (1797–1839).

  • Hans Passavant (1751–1834) founder of the Bankhaus Passavant & Cie, grave at the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel

    Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

  • Hans Passavant (1751–1834) founder of the Passavant & Cie bank, epitaph, Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel

    Funerary inscription, Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horlacher, Daniel Tröhler: 1810-1813 . In: All letters to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Volume 3. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich December 23, 2011, p. 108 (accessed November 18, 2014).
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the Passavant trunk
personal data
SURNAME Passavant, Hans Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basel banker
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1751
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1834