Jakob von Kaufmann-Asser

Jakob Kaufmann-Asser , from 1870 knight of Kaufmann-Asser (* July 17, 1819 in Garzweiler; † July 22, 1875 in Cologne-Riehl by suicide), was a German banker , landowner and consul general of the Republic of Paraguay .

Life

Kaufmann was the son of the trader Joseph Kaufmann (1773- ??) from Garzweiler ( Grevenbroich district ) and Josephina Lovendahl. On February 13, 1845, he married the Dutch Henriette Florine Rose Asser, an aunt of the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tobias Asser, in Amsterdam . The descendants of the Kaufmann-Asser were active in many areas of public life.

With the award of the Austrian Iron Crown Order 3rd class he was raised to the Austrian knighthood on April 2, 1870 in Vienna with a diploma of April 15, 1870. The Prussian recognition took place on April 24, 1871 in Berlin .

In 1870 bought Kaufmann in Berlin by Count Maximilian von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven the castle Welterode and extensive lands in Eitorf ( Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ) as an object of speculation. Just two years later (1872) he sold part of the land to Julius Gauhe , paving the way for the first large-scale industrial company in Eitorf. In 1872 he gave the poor of Eitorf the "Kaufmann'sche Armenstiftung" for 2100 thalers, which he wanted to grant as a Jew regardless of denomination .

Kaufmann was director of the private " Elberfelder Disconto- und Wechslerbank" founded in 1872 . But as early as 1874 the bank went bankrupt and Kaufmann was sentenced to one month in prison for unsound business conduct.

After that, in 1875, he again sold lands to Dr. Fritz Gauhe. Just four days later, on July 22, 1875, he committed suicide in his apartment in Cologne-Riehl.

Descendants

The descendants of the progenitor Jakob Ritter von Kaufmann-Asser belong

• Adelheid (Adele) von Kaufmann-Asser, daughter of Jakob von Kaufmann, (1845–1919), married to the privy councilor Robert Esser
• Richard von Kaufmann-Asser , son of Jakob von Kaufmann, (1850–1908), national economist, art collector and patron
• Heinrich Ritter von Kaufmann-Asser , grandson of Jakob von Kaufmann, son of Ludwig von Kaufmann, lawyer, in the communications department of the Foreign Office during the First World War, then as a diplomat in various countries, from 1926 to 1932 head of the press department of the Foreign Office, 1933 Ambassador to Argentina, dismissed as a Jew
• Wilhelm Ritter von Kaufmann-Asser , grandson of Jakob von Kaufmann, son of Richard von Kaufmann, doctor, specialist author and film producer, married to actress Henny Porten
• Hetta Countess Treuberg , granddaughter of Jakob von Kaufmann, daughter of Ludwig von Kaufmann, married to Ernst Ludwig Ferdinand Franz Xaver Fischler Graf von Treuberg
• Carmen von Kaufmann-Asser , married to Detlef Joachim Ludwig Georg Wilhelm von Dewitz, a descendant of Karl Heinrich von Siemens
• Rupert Ludwig Ferdinand zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1933–2014), great-great-grandson of Jakob von Kaufmannd and a grandson of Hetta Countess Treuberg. Loewenstein was a German-British banker and long-time financial manager of the Rolling Stones .

literature

• Karl Schröder: Eitorf under the Prussians, Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2002, ISBN 3-87710-321-9
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Page 147, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408
• Genealogical database Asser
• Hetta von Treuberg: Between Politics and Diplomacy. Memoirs of Hetta Countess Treuberg, b. v. Kaufmann-Asser, Strasbourg 1921.
• Otto Glagau: The stock exchange and start-up fraud in Berlin, Leipzig 1876.
• Prince Rupert Loewenstein: “A Prince among Stones”, Bloomsbury, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-4088-3279-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Esser
2. ^ Prince Rupert Loewenstein: "A Prince among Stones", Bloomsbury, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-4088-3279-0