Joachim Andreas Grunelius

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Grave of Joachim Andreas Grunelius in the main cemetery

Joachim Andreas Grunelius (born August 7, 1776 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 7, 1852 there ) was a German banker and member of parliament.

Life

Andreas Grunelius was the son of the citizen and trader in Frankfurt am Main, Peter Grunelius (1739–1810), the founder and owner of the company “Peter u. Joh. Balthasar Grunelius "wool and linen en wholesale" and his wife Anna Catharina nee Sauer (1748–1806). His father's company was liquidated when he died in 1810. The object of the company was the wholesale trade in cloths, soaps, oilcloths, carpets, horse blankets and linen and woolen goods.

On October 14, 1800, Andreas Grunelius married Anna Elisabeth Bethmann called Hollweg (1781–1850), the daughter of the banker Johann Jakob Bethmann-Hollweg , who had been a partner in Bankhaus Bethmann since 1781 and operated as a partner. With the articles of association dated July 1, 1801, Grunelius also joined the renowned bank. He ended his activity as Associé of Bankhaus Bethmann under the managing director Simon Moritz von Bethmann on December 31, 1823. At the beginning of the following year, his own company Grunelius & Co started business at 167 Große Gallusgasse.

As a banker he was extremely successful. In 1826, for example, his bank, in partnership with Hope & Co., Amsterdam, launched the first six percent Russian government bond on the Frankfurt market. Most recently he died as a guilder millionaire.

His eldest son died as a student. The second son Moritz Eduard Grunelius (1803–1846) also became a member of the legislative body (1835–1846) and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce from 1834 to 1841 . Then he left Frankfurt and became the founder of the Alsatian line of Grunelius in Kolbsheim and operator of an ironworks in Niederbronn / Unterelsass. The third son, Peter Karl Grunelius (1807–1867) remained a banker in Frankfurt am Main and in 1854 became one of the founders of the Frankfurter Bank . The daughter Margarethe Emilie (1804–1870) married the Frankfurt parish priest Alexander Stein in 1824 and the second daughter Susanne Bertha (1808–1877) married the Frankfurt merchant Jakob Emil Bernus in 1830 .

Joachim Andreas Grunelius is buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery ( Gewann B, grave site 49-50). The grave is a listed building .

politics

From 1808 to 1826 he was a member of the Permanent Citizens' Representation and from 1817 to 1829 of the Legislative Body .

Patronage

Grunelius and his wife use a not insignificant part of their wealth for charitable foundations and patronage. In 1845 Anna Elisabeth set up a foundation for orphans from the Frankfurt villages and supplemented her mother’s foundation, the Oberräder Children's School from 1830, with a legacy of 100,000 guilders. Joachim Andreas Grunelius was part of the administrative commission founded by Frankfurt citizens in 1832, which bought and furnished several houses for children's schools (such as Wegscheide ) with foundation funds. The Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft received several foundations.

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personal data
SURNAME Grunelius, Joachim Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and MP
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1852
Place of death Frankfurt am Main