Jonas von Königswarter

Jonas Freiherr von Königswarter (born August 10, 1807 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 23, 1871 in Vienna ) was an Austrian banker .

Grave of the Königswarter family

biography

Königswarter was the head of a banking house in Vienna, director of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and president of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Vienna . He was raised to the Austrian knighthood on March 25, 1860 in Vienna, and to the Austrian baron on October 26, 1870 there . The use of the title applied to him and his descendants. The baron was also awarded the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class (KD) and on September 24, 1870 for his meritorious work by Emperor Franz Joseph with the Order of the Iron Crown 2nd Class.

Jonas married his cousin Josephine Königswerter in 1829, recte : Königswarter, (* April 13, 1811 - May 14, 1861 ), sister of Baron Maximilian de Königswarter (1817–1878).

He was the builder of the Palais Königswarter in Vienna and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Währing after his death . In 1941 his bones were exhumed and reburied in the New Jewish Department of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate IV).

literature

Hans Jaeger: Königswarter, Jonas Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 362 f. ( Digitized version ).
Friederike Hillbrand-Grill: Königswarter, Jonas Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 41.
Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume III, page 481.

Web links

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Remarks

↑ Portuguese baronate that has remained unnostrified. - Nice: ennobled Jewish families .

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.coresno.com/adelslexikon.html?type=atom&start ... - Austria
^ Wiener Zeitung of September 28, 1870
^ Official part. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 121/1860, May 20, 1860, p. 1, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
^ Theodor Schön: ennobled Jewish families . ( Semi-Gotha ). Angelberger, Salzburg 1891, position no.244.
↑ Patricia Steines: Hundred Thousand Stones. Grave sites of great Austrians of Jewish denomination on the Vienna Central Cemetery Gate I and Gate IV . Falter Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85439-093-9 , p. 313.

personal data
SURNAME	Königswarter, Jonas von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Königswarter, Jonas Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian banker
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1871
Place of death	Vienna

[4] Portuguese baronate that has remained unnostrified. - Nice: ennobled Jewish families .

[1] ttp://www.coresno.com/adelslexikon.html?type=atom&start ... - Austria

[2] Wiener Zeitung of September 28, 1870

[3] Official part. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 121/1860, May 20, 1860, p. 1, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.

[5] Theodor Schön: ennobled Jewish families . ( Semi-Gotha ). Angelberger, Salzburg 1891, position no.244.

[6] Patricia Steines: Hundred Thousand Stones. Grave sites of great Austrians of Jewish denomination on the Vienna Central Cemetery Gate I and Gate IV . Falter Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85439-093-9 , p. 313.