Leopold Willstätter

Leopold Willstätter (born May 15, 1851 in Karlsruhe , † September 4, 1902 in Brunnen SZ ) was a German banker .

biography

Leopold Willstätter studied chemistry at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic . He was a partner in the Veit L. Homburger bank and a member of the supervisory boards of numerous Karlsruhe and foreign companies. Among other things, he was in Karlsruhe on the supervisory board of the brewery company. S. Moninger AG , the Karlsruher Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft , the Karlsruher Werkzeug-Maschinenfabrik (formerly Gschwindt & Cie.) And the Society for Electrical Industry Karlsruhe , which Willstätter co-founded on January 6, 1897. Outside of Karlsruhe, he was on the supervisory board of the Portland-Cement-Factory Diedesheim-Neckarelz (later Portland-Cement-Factory Heidelberg and Mannheim AG ) and the Löwenburg brewery in Zweibrücken .

He was Austrian Consul General and Persian Consul General in Karlsruhe.

He was awarded the Knight's Cross II from the Order of the Zähringer Lion , as well as the Order of the Sun and Lion, second class.

literature

• Baden biographies , VI. Part, 1935, p. 816 ( digitized version )
• Chronicle of the City of Karlsruhe , 1902, 104 ( digitized version )

References

• Half-length portrait of Leopold Willstätter in Dt. Digital library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ETZ: Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift , Ed. A., Volume 15, 1894, p. 448
2. ^ Tonindustrie-Zeitung , Volume 26, 1902, p. 1539
3. ↑ Journal of the whole brewing beings . New series, Volume 20, 1897, p. 690
4. ^ Reichsministerialblatt , Volume 19, 1891, p. 137
5. ↑ Messages from the Association for Defense of Antisemitism , Volume 6, 1896, p. 315
6. ^ Heidelberger Zeitung , No. 237, Thursday, October 11, 1900