Hermann Christian Wittgenstein
Hermann Christian Wittgenstein , birth name Herz Wittgenstein (born September 15, 1802 in Korbach , † May 19, 1878 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian merchant from the widely ramified Wittgenstein family .
Life
He grew up as the son of the Jewish businessman Moses Meyer-Wittgenstein (1768–1829) and his wife Bernhardine (Breindel) Simon (1768–1829) in Korbach , in what was then the Principality of Waldeck . At first he worked in the family business of his parents, who mainly traded in wool.
In 1839 he left Korbach with his brother Richard Simon Wittgenstein to expand the wool trade in the trade fair city of Leipzig . In the same year he was evangelically baptized in the Dresden Kreuzkirche in the name of Hermann Christian and married in Gohlis Fanny Figdor from Kittsee (* April 7, 1814, † October 21, 1890), daughter of an important Jewish family in Vienna, which was also before converted to Protestant faith at the time of marriage. Both became citizens of Leipzig in 1840, ran their business in Leipzig-Gohlis and lived there in wealthy circles. Among other things, they took care of the young violinist Joseph Joachim , a cousin of Fannys, who studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1843 to 1849 .
In 1851 the family moved to Vösendorf in Austria. He worked as an entrepreneur in cooperation with the Figdor family from Vienna . He administered decrepit aristocratic estates in order to renovate them and to get part of the renovation profits. The Figdors helped finance and sell the goods made on the estates. The profits were mostly invested in real estate. Among other things, the family acquired the Mauer estate near Vienna in February 1856 . In 1860 the family moved to Vienna and successfully expanded the real estate business there.
He and his wife Fanny had eleven children, including the later industrialist Karl Wittgenstein .
Awards
- Before 1925, Wittgensteinstrasse in Mauer was named after him.
- The Hermann-Wittgenstein-Straße in Vienna is also named after him.
literature
- Felix Czeike (ed.): Wittgenstein, Hermann Christian. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , pp. 667–667 ( digitized version , entry in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna).
- Allan Janick and Stephen Toulmin, Wittgenstein in Vienna , Speyer 1998
- Alexander Waugh: The Wittgenstein House. The story of an unusual family. Frankfurt am Main 2009
Web links
- Hermann Christian Wittgenstein in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittgenstein, Hermann Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wittgenstein, heart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1878 |
| Place of death | Vienna |