Julius Bleichroder

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Julius Bleichröder, around 1900

Julius (Israel Levy) Bleichröder (born April 27, 1828 in Berlin ; † February 17, 1907 in Berlin) was a German banker of Jewish denomination.

Origin and family

Julius Bleichröder came from the banking family Bleichröder and was the founder of the banking house Julius Bleichröder & Co. The founder of the banking house S. Bleichröder , Samuel Bleichröder , was his father. His brother was Gerson Baron von Bleichröder, known as Bismarck's banker and raised to the nobility by him in 1872 . Julius Bleichröder's daughter Johanna (1861–1938) married the physicist and politician Leo Arons .

Life

Banker Julius Bleichröder (center), with his son Fritz Bleichröder and the governess Anna Cahen
tomb

He attended high school until he was 16. In 1844 Bleichröder completed an apprenticeship at the Frankfurt Rothschild bank. After the death of the father, his two sons continued the banking business. Julius founded his own bank around 1860 and was thus independent from his older brother Gerson. There was still a silent partnership between the two banks, which was given up in 1870.

Bleichröder married Adelheid Salomon on May 30, 1858, and they had seven children together.

Bleichröder was a member of the Society of Friends , a Berlin Jewish charity and the unofficial center of the Berlin economic and financial elite. He supported numerous charities financially; for example the first old people's home of the Jewish community in Berlin. He was the namesake of the Julius Bleichröder Foundation, which promoted the training of Jewish teachers. A park in Berlin-Pankow was named after him and his son Fritz Bleichröder , namely the Bleichröderpark .

Julius Israel Levy Bleichröder was buried in hereditary funeral no. 409, where his wife Adelheid (1838–1910), sons Richard Samuel (1866–1874), Paul John (1869–1891) and Dr. Fritz Bleichröder (d. 1938) resting in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee . The father Samuel Bleichröder (1779–1855) and the famous brother Gerson von Bleichröder also rest in this cemetery . His descendants converted to Christianity and were buried in a crypt in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery. The mausoleum chapel was demolished on the instructions of Wilhelm Pieck at the beginning of the 1950s because the GDR government needed space for its newly established memorial to the socialists .

literature

  • Meyer's large conversation lexicon. Bibliographical Institute, Volume 22, 1908.
  • Fritz Stern : Gold and Iron. Bismarck and his banker Bleichröder. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-550-07358-5 ; New edition: Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60907-X .
  • The Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee, Berlin. A tour of selected tombs, ed. by the Jewish Community of Berlin, edited by Fiona Laudamus, Jörg Kuhn , Wolfgang Gottschalk and Klaus-Henning von Krosigk , Berlin 2011, p. 75 no. 56.

Web links

Commons : Julius Bleichröder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Composed of contradictions
  2. ^ Max Kreutzberger, Letter from Max Kreuzberger to Uwe Henning , Typescript, 1978, p. 1. ( Online , accessed October 15, 2011)
  3. ^ Society of Friends
  4. ^ Jewish retirement home
  5. ↑ Julius Bleichröder Foundation
  6. ^ Morning post: Bleichröderpark
  7. ^ Joachim Hoffmann : Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery, cultural history travel guide, Verlag Das Neue Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00959-2 ; P. 20
  8. ↑ Details of the hereditary burial can be found on an explanation board in the cemetery.
personal data
SURNAME Bleichroder, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleichröder, Julius Israel Levy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1907
Place of death Berlin