Louise von Rothschild

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The Rothschild Palais on Untermainkai, the couple's place of residence, now the seat of the Jewish Museum
Grave of Louise von Rothschild (right) and her husband (left)

Baroness Louise von Rothschild (* 1820 , † 1894 ), also written as Luise von Rothschild , was a member of the Rothschild family. She is one of the founders who founded several social institutions in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Louise von Rothschild was the youngest daughter of Nathan Mayer von Rothschild . Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his youngest brother James de Rothschild were considered to be the leading figures of the House of Rothschild . Her father had made a significant contribution to the rise of the banking house through financial services for the British government and the Hessian elector Wilhelm I. She was raised in the spirit of the Enlightenment and was considered to be very well educated. In line with family tradition, Luise von Rothschild married her cousin Mayer Carl von Rothschild in 1842 , who came from the Neapl branch of the Rothschild family. Together they had seven daughters, three of whom were members of the Rothschild family who married two other Christian nobles. Their fifth daughter, Hannah Luise von Rothschild , remained unmarried. Like her mother, she was involved in the social sector and, among other things, donated the Carolinum sanatorium in Frankfurt in memory of her father.

The married couple Mayer Carl and Louise von Rothschild lived in Frankfurt. From 1843 Mayer Carl von Rothschild worked in the Frankfurt head office of the bank, whose management he took over in 1855 after the death of his father and his uncle Amschel Mayer together with his younger brother Wilhelm Carl . The couple were among the influential and very wealthy citizens of Frankfurt. Louise von Rothschild's husband was a member of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and co-founder of the Frankfurter Bank , consul of Parma and Bavaria and consul general of Austria . In 1866 he was a member of the delegation that negotiated with Bismarck to achieve more favorable conditions for the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by Prussia. From 1867 to 1871 he was a member of the Frankfurt city council and at the same time the North German Reichstag . In 1871 he became the first Jew to become a member of the Prussian manor house . During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 Louise von Rothschild set up a private hospital in Hafenstrasse, Frankfurt am Main, where she and her daughters looked after soldiers. For this she was honored with the Order of Luise by Empress Augusta in 1874 .

Rothschild and his wife also appeared as collectors and donors. Louise von Rothschild donated the Clementine Girls' Hospital in 1875 in memory of her daughter Clementine, who died young. She donated her luxurious summer house on the Bornheimer Landwehr as well as 800,000 gold marks. In a bomb attack on October 4, 1943, the Clementine Children's Hospital was destroyed, as was the children's hospital and maternity house founded by Johann Theobald Christ . After the end of the Second World War , the two foundations merged to form the Clementine Children's Hospital Dr. Christ Foundation . They jointly built the Clementine Children's Hospital on the rubble site of Christ's children's hospital and maternity hospital near the Frankfurt zoo .

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  1. ^ Dörken, p. 83
  2. ^ Dörken, p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Rothschild, Louise of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothschild, Luise von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the Rothschild family
DATE OF BIRTH 1820
DATE OF DEATH 1894