Louis Ephraim Meyer
Louis Ephraim Meyer (born October 12, 1821 in Hanover ; † February 2, 1894 there ) was a banker.
Life
family
Louis Ephraim's father, Ephraim Meyer (1779 in Schnaittach ; † 1849) ran a bank founded in 1797. His sister married Moritz Magnus .
Career
Louis Ephraim Meyer completed a commercial training in his father's business. When he became a partner in 1847, the business was renamed Bankhaus Ephraim Meyer & Sohn , and after his father's death he became sole owner. In 1856 he acquired the Dachenhausenpalais , to which he relocated the business premises.
He participated in the Peiner Hüttenwerk, in the share sugar factory Neuwerk , the Hanoverian iron foundry , the Linden share brewery, in the Georg Egestorff salt works and chemical factories and in the Silberleithe . In 1872 he co-founded the Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank and in 1890 the Hannoversche Immobilien Gesellschaft.
Meyer was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and was a member of the Reichsbank Committee. In 1871 he became a councilor of commerce and in 1886 he became a secret councilor of commerce .
He is buried in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede .
At the end of 1894, the Norddeutsche Bank acquired a commanding stake in the banking house amounting to 4 million marks. In 1926 it ran into a liquidity crisis and became part of the Gumpel family of industrialists . Erich Meyer remained from the founding family as a manager. In the banking crisis of 1931/32 it suffered securities losses and was liquidated in December 1933 with the participation of Dresdner Bank .
literature
- Paul Wolf (arr.): Germany's urban development . Hanover , ed. in agreement with the City of Hanover, “Dari” Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag , Berlin-Halensee 1922, p. 210f.
- Julius Blanck : The banking and stock exchange in the city of Hanover , 2nd edition, Hanover: Theodor Schulze, 1927, passim
- Peter Schulze : MEYER, (9) Louis Ephraim. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 253.
- Peter Schulze: Meyer, (9) Louis Ephraim. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 441.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Schulze : Meyer, (9) Louis Ephraim. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 253; online through google books
- ↑ Register entry in the German biography
- ^ Krause: The Commerz- und Disconto-Bank 1870-1920 / 23: banking history as system history ; P. 176
- ^ D. Ziegler: The Dresdner Bank and the German Jews ; P. 166
- ^ I. Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the Third Reich ; P. 261
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Louis Ephraim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Banker in Hanover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1894 |
| Place of death | Hanover |