Ladenburg (family)
Ladenburg is the name of a well-known Mannheim family of Jewish descent from Ladenburg . The ancestors in the male line were traders in Neuburg an der Donau . When they moved to Ladenburg, they called themselves Neuburger . Moses Zwi Hirsch Neuburger (died around 1765/70) was a rabbi and merchant in Ladenburg. His son Hajum Moses Hirsch Ladenburg (er) (around 1735–1781) came with his wife Terza Moyses - later she called herself Theresa Grötzinger - from Ladenburg to Mannheim in the middle of the 18th century and thus became the progenitor of the Mannheim family, the subsequently branched out to Frankfurt am Main and later to the USA.
Personalities
- Wolf Ladenburg (1766–1851), founder of the Ladenburg bank in Mannheim (1785)
- Seligmann Ladenburg (1797–1873), owner of the WH Ladenburg & Söhne banking house , important financial tycoon in Mannheim, co-founder of BASF
- Ludwig Ladenburg (1817–1877), bank director (namesake of the Ladenburghöhe )
- Carl Ladenburg (1827–1909), owner of the banking house WH Ladenburg & Sons in Mannheim, member of the Baden state parliament, honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim (1907)
- Emil Ladenburg (1822–1902), German banker, co-owner of the Ladenburg bank
- Ernst Ladenburg (1854–1921), German banker, co-owner of the Ladenburg bank
- Leopold Ladenburg (1809–1889), lawyer and economist, "pioneer of modern commercial law"
- Albert Ladenburg (1842–1911), German chemist
- Rudolf Ladenburg (1882–1952), German physicist, emigrated to the USA in 1932 and worked on the Manhattan Project , the construction of the atomic bomb for military purposes.
literature
- Leopold Ladenburg : Family tree of the Ladenburg family . Verlag J. Ph. Walther, Mannheim 1882.
- B. Rosenthal: The origin of the Ladenburg family , in: Israelitisches Gemeindeblatt . 13th year, No. 10, Mannheim 1935.
- Florian Waldeck : Ladenburg , in: Alte Mannheimer Familien, writings of the Mannheim Family History Association . Self-published, Mannheim 1920 (reprinted 1986).
See also
Web links
Commons : Ladenburg (Family) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Schäfer: Ladenburg, Wolf Haium. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 386 ( digitized version ).