Johann Berenberg (businessman)

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Johann Berenberg. Paintings in the Berenberg Bank in Hamburg.

Johann Berenberg (born March 12, 1718 in Hamburg , † March 2, 1772 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg merchant, banker , art collector, patron and co-owner or main owner of the Berenberg Bank . The bank (officially Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. ) is still named after him today.

Life

He belonged to the Hanseatic banking family Berenberg . Johann was the son of Hamburg Senator Rudolf Berenberg (1680–1746) and his wife Anna Elisabeth Amsinck (1690–1748), grandson of the Hamburg and Lisbon merchant Paul Amsinck and descendant of the Welser family .

Between 1735 and 1741 he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Venice . In 1748 he became a co-owner of the Berenberg Bank , together with his brother Paul Berenberg, who became a Hamburg Senator.

Berenberg was married to Anna Maria Lastrop (1723–1761) and had a son and a daughter. His son Rudolf, who may be mentally ill, died in Suriname at the age of 20 in 1768 after being sent there to represent his father's company, and in the same year his brother Paul died childless. It remained as the only heir to the family of Johann Berenberg's daughter, Elisabeth Berenberg . In December 1768 she was married to Johann Hinrich Gossler , one of her father's employees, and the following year Berenberg took on his son-in-law as a new partner. Johann Berenberg was the great-grandfather of Hamburg's First Mayor Hermann Gossler .

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personal data
SURNAME Berenberg, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hamburg merchant, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1772
Place of death Hamburg