Ludwig Goldfinch

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Ludwig von Stieglitz, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1843

Ludwig Stieglitz , 1826 Baron Ludwig Stieglitz ( Russian Людвиг Штиглиц , * 24. December 1779 in Arolsen , † March 6 . Jul / 18th March  1843 greg. In St. Petersburg ), one was Russian entrepreneur and banker of German-Jewish origin. He founded the Stieglitz & Co.

Life

As Levi Stieglitz, Ludwig Stieglitz was the youngest of three sons of the Waldecker protective Jew Hirsch Bernhard Stieglitz and his wife Edel Elisabeth, née. Marcus. His oldest brother was the doctor Johann Stieglitz (born as Israel Stieglitz) in Hanover. The poet Heinrich Stieglitz was his nephew. As a young man, Stieglitz moved to Russia as a representative of the family business. Both through trade and, increasingly, through banking, he came to great fortune and influence. In 1800, his brother Israel was baptized in Ronnenberg near Hanover and given the name Johann. In 1802 he became court medicus in Hanover. In 1803 his brother Levi came to Ronnenberg from Saint Petersburg to be secretly baptized there as well. The baptism was notarized, but not entered in the church register, as "there are reasons against a public announcement". As a Christian, Ludwig Stieglitz was appointed court banker by Tsar Alexander I and raised to the nobility in 1826.

Ludwig's son, Alexander Baron Stieglitz (* 1814; † 1884), head of the Russian State Bank

Stieglitz also worked as a court banker under Alexander's successor, Tsar Nicholas I , but also remained an entrepreneur. Among other things, he invested in the construction of the steamship line between Lübeck and St. Petersburg from 1829 and in the takeover of an insolvent cloth factory in Narva , which in the following decades, under its new director Napoléon Peltzer, became one of the most renowned cloth factories in Russia. In Courland , he acquired the Gross-Essern estate ( Ezere in Latvian ). As a result, he was also part of the Courland Knighthood from 1840 .

family

Ludwig Stieglitz married Amalie Angelica Christiane Gottschalk (born July 26, 1777 in Hanover , † February 20, 1838 in St. Petersburg), making him brother-in-law of the banker Martin Joseph Haller in Hamburg; The hereditary Russian nobility was confirmed to their descendants by an ukase from the Senate of April 3, 1863. The eldest son Nikolaus, who visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and graduated from high school here in 1827, died in 1833; Alexander took over the bank, which he liquidated in 1863, and became the first president of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, founded in 1860 . The daughter Nathalie (born October 17, 1803 in St. Petersburg; May 17, 1882 in Frankfurt am Main) married Johann David von Harder in 1824 .

literature

  • Peter Hertel and Christiane Buddenberg-Hertel: Ed .: Region Hannover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-7752-4903-4 .
  • Olga Stieglitz: The Stieglitz from Arolsen: texts, images, documents. Bad Arolsen: Museum 2003 (Museum Hefte Waldeck-Frankenberg; 22) ISBN 3-930930-10-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hertel and Christiane Buddenberg-Hertel: Ed .: Region Hannover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-7752-4903-4 , p. 25 f.
  2. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305545 , no. 231
personal data
SURNAME Goldfinch, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stieglitz, Baron Ludwig von; Штиглиц, Людвиг (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian banker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1843
Place of death St. Petersburg