Hugo Oppenheim

Hugo Oppenheim (born February 5, 1847 in Berlin ; † January 23, 1921 Rehnitz / Neumark ) was a German banker .

Life

Hugo Oppeneim's parents, the lawyer Otto Georg Oppenheim (1817–1909) and Margarethe, b. Mendelssohn, Alexander Mendelssohn's daughter , came from banking families. Hugo was the couple's oldest son. His older sister Else (1844-1868) married the chemist and founder of the Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrication Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1867 , who after her death in 1873 married the younger sister Enole Oppenheim (1855-1939). His youngest sister Clara (1861–1944) married the gynecologist Adolf Gusserow in 1880 . The younger brother Franz Oppenheim became a chemist and director of Agfa.

In September 1871 Hugo Oppenheim married his cousin Anna Oppenheim (1849–1931), a daughter of his uncle Rudolph Oppenheim .

Hugo Oppenheim's wife Anna Oppenheim with her siblings Benoit Oppenheim d. Ä. and Marie von Leyden

Almost four months later, at the end of 1871, Hugo Oppenheim became a partner in the Robert Warschauer & Co. banking house at 48 Behrenstrasse , which was run by his uncle Robert Warschauer senior . In 1899 Hugo Oppenheim became senior partner of this bank, which six years later, in 1905, was taken over by the Darmstädter Bank für Handel und Industrie .

In 1877 Hugo Oppenheim joined the Society of Friends . He later became deputy chairman of the board of directors of the German-East African Society and a member of the supervisory board of the German-Asian Bank . From 1911 to 1919 Hugo Oppenheim supported the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) as a sustaining member .

In 1892 Hugo Oppenheim bought the villa at Matthäikirchstrasse 3b in the Tiergarten district , which from then on became the family home in Berlin. The Oppenheims spent the summer until 1905 in the Villa Sorgefrei , Scharrenstrasse 23-27 (today Schustehrusstrasse ), the summer residence of Hugo Oppenheim's parents in Charlottenburg. In 1905 Hugo Oppenheim acquired the Rehnitz estate on Rehnitzsee in Neumark . He financed the purchase with the money that the Darmstädter Bank paid him when it took over the Warschauer Bank. At that time the Rehnitz estate was 750 hectares of arable land, 300 hectares of forest, 75 hectares of water and 63 hectares of meadow. In the years that followed, the Oppenheims restructured the property and had the manor house rebuilt by the Bavarian architect Emanuel von Seidl between 1905 and 1906. In 1928 Hugo's widow Anna sold large parts of the estate to the Eigen Scholle settlement company . However, the family kept the manor, the forest and the lake. The estate community became an extensive settler village. After Anna Oppenheim's death, the heirs sold the rest of the property.

Banking house Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn

Share over DM 1000 in Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn Nachf. Berliner Privatbank AG from December 1964

In 1912 Hugo Oppenheim founded the private bank Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn with its headquarters on Unter den Linden 78, from 1919 Pariser Platz 1 in Berlin-Mitte . After Hugo Oppenheim's death, the bank fell to his only son, Robert Oppenheim . He had to liquidate it in 1932 due to over-indebtedness as a result of the banking crisis of 1931. The future-oriented parts of the business were taken over by the von Mendelssohn Bartholdy family and continued by Robert Oppenheim's great-nephew Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy under the company Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn Nachf . However, this was also not very successful and had to cease business at the end of 1934. In 1950 Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy founded the company Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn Nachf. Again, this time in Hamburg and Frankfurt / Main. In 1962 it took over the financially troubled Berlin-based bank, founded in 1950 as Jüdische Bank AG and renamed Berliner Privatbank AG in 1955, and from then on operated as Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn Nachf. Berliner Privatbank AG . In 1963 Hugo von Mendelssohn Bartholdy sold the bank, which three years later became insolvent.

children

• Else Oppenheim (1873–1945) married the painter Josef Block (1863–1943).
• Luise Oppenheim (1875–1926) married the officer Hans Petersen (1867–1944).
• Margarete Oppenheim (1877–1939) married the American-German painter Charles Frederic Ulrich (1858–1908).
• Anna Oppenheim (1879–1946) survived the persecution during the Nazi era, but died of malnutrition shortly after the liberation .
• Robert Oppenheim (1882–1956) became a banker and businessman.

literature

• Thomas Lackmann: The Mendelssohns' luck. Story of a German family.

Web links

• Oppenheim, Hugo in the German biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, annual report for the years 1915 to 1927. (PDF)
2. ↑ General Administration Kaiser Wilhelm Society - Information on the inventory: Members. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. , Archive of the Max Planck Society; Retrieved July 4, 2015. 
3. ^ Oppenheim, Hugo, Märkische Landsitze des Berliner Bürgerertums , accessed July 22, 2015
4. ^ Märkische country houses of the Berlin bourgeoisie, Hugo Oppenheim: Rehnitz, Rittergut (with Rittergut Glasow), Kr. Soldin (Renice, powiat myśliborski, and Głazów, powiat myśliborski). Lexicon of estates and land holdings; Retrieved July 4, 2015.
5. ↑ Gutsverwaltung Rehnitz, Soldin district: Oppenheim; Anna; Manor owner , address book Soldin / Neumark, 1925, pp. 257–258.
6. ^ Obituary notice: Letter from Else Block, Margarete Ulrich, Anna Oppenheim, Robert Oppenheim, Josef Block, Hans Petersen and Ehrentraut Oppenheim to Gerhart Hauptmann , on the digitized collections of the Berlin State Library
7. ^ Rehkitz Geschichte , on GenWiki, accessed July 4, 2015.
8. ^ Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn, Privatbank, registered 1912, Liq .: 1935, Pariser Platz 1 (center) , Jewish commercial enterprises in Berlin 1930–1945, accessed July 4, 2015.
9. ^ Oppenheim bankruptcy: Profits in postage stamps . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1968 ( online ).