Karl Abraham Wetzlar from Plankenstern
Karl Abraham Wetzlar, from 1777 Baron von Plankenstern (* 1715 in Offenbach am Main ; † September 3, 1799 in Vienna ) was known as a "millionaire Jew". He founded the Wetzlar von Plankenstern dynasty.
Life
Karl Abraham Wetzlar possibly had his roots in Wetzlar . He is said to have come to Vienna as a poor man and made a fortune there as an employee of the banker Simon Wolf Oppenheimer . The Habsburgs appreciated his loan brokerage and cheap army supplies, which is why he was appointed imperial court agent in 1763 . In 1776 he converted to Christianity and in 1777 he was made a baron , although Joseph II had demanded that his family convert to Christianity as well. However, Wetzlar's wife refused, which is why it was expressly stated in the nobility diploma that only Wetzlar himself and his children, insofar as they had already converted or would still do so, received the nobility.
Karl Abraham Wetzlar collected from Plankenstern art, which he did in Palais Schönborn housed and supported as a patron of the arts , among others Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , whose academy he attended. In 1785 he rented the Damian Palace . One of his sons bought the palace in 1800. The Wetzlar von Plankenstern family lived in the palace for half a century.
He married Eleonore Schluchtern, with whom he had five daughters and seven sons, including the son Raimund Wetzlar von Plankenstern, who had the villa XAIPE built.
Around the year 1821, Plankengasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt (1st district) was named after him.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wetzlar von Plankenstern, Karl Abraham . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 55th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1887, p. 191 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Klaus Edel, Karl Abraham Freiher Wetzlar von Plankenstern 1715 (16) –1799 , Association of Austrian Scientific Societies 1975 (= dissertations from the University of Vienna , vol. 25).
- Semigothaic genealogical paperback ari (st) okratic-Jewish marriages, 1912, first year, p.238ff Wetzlar von Plankenstern
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Lorenz , "Agnes Selby: Constanze, Mozart's Beloved (Vienna: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag 2013)" (Vienna 2014).
- ↑ alemannia-judaica.de
- ^ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: Complete Works and Letters: Critical Edition. Register tape . Ed .: Pestalozzianum Zurich. tape 1 . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1994, ISBN 3-85823-475-3 , p. 597 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Ingrid Mittenzwei: Between yesterday and tomorrow: Vienna's early bourgeoisie at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century . In: Bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Monarchy . tape 7 . Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98872-8 , p. 79 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Ingrid Mittenzwei: Between yesterday and tomorrow: Vienna's early bourgeoisie at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century . In: Bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Monarchy . tape 7 . Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98872-8 , p. 322 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ planet-vienna.com
- ^ Karl Graf von Zinzendorf et al., European Enlightenment between Vienna and Trieste. The diaries of Governor Karl Graf von Zinzendorf 1776-1782 , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-77792-2 , p. 632
- ↑ Viennatouristguide.at (PDF; 2.0 MB)
- ↑ Hietzing
- ^ Plankengasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wetzlar von Plankenstern, Karl Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian court agent and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1715 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenbach am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1799 |
| Place of death | Vienna |