Liepmann Meyer Wulff

Liepmann Meyer Wulff , also Liebmann Meyer Wulff (born November 1, 1745 in Berlin ; † August 16, 1812 ibid), also known as Liepmann Tausk or Lippmann Tauss , was a Prussian court factor . He came from the Wolf Tausk family , one of fifty Jewish families who were expelled from Vienna and taken in Berlin in 1671.

Life

Meyer Wulff founded trading and transport companies, was a supplier to the army and the mint in Prussia and organized the postal system . In 1793 he acquired the long lease for the Potsdam pawnshop , and from 1794 to 1806 he was the general leaseholder of the state Prussian lottery . He was a multiple homeowner and mortgagee , around 1800 he called himself a banker , and in general he was called Berlin Croesus .

Wulff enjoyed the benevolence of the court especially under Friedrich Wilhelm II . Louis Eichborn called him a man who, through privileges and other advantages, had been made rich through violence to the detriment of the rest of the world . Even if the privileges were restricted under Freiherren vom Stein , in 1812 Wulff was still the richest citizen of Berlin.

In 1786 Liepmann Meyer Wulff was elected as a representative of the Prussian Jews alongside David Friedländer and Isaak Daniel Itzig . The aim of the three-person committee was civil equality and further emancipation of the Jews. Wulff represented the position of traditional Judaism. He was socially committed and founded the Lippmann-Tauss-Synagoge around 1780 . This, with an attached religious school, had been located in Berlin's Königsstadt , Gollnowstrasse 12, since 1893 , and was closed in 1937, the building was later destroyed.

A daughter of Liepmann Meyer Wulff was Amalie Beer , whose son was the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer .

literature

• Andreas Nachama et al .: Jews in Berlin , p. 52; Henschel Verlag Berlin. 2001

Web links

• Wilhelm Treue: Economic and technical history of Prussia , p. 191 ff.
• Berliner Vereinbote: Lippmann Taus-Synagogenverein (PDF file; 1.89 MB)
• Felix Singermann: The Lippmann-Tauss-Synagoge and the rabbi house of the Lipschütz