Marcus Warschauer

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Marcus Warschauer (born August 25, 1777 in Breslau , † November 28, 1835 in Berlin ) was a German-Jewish banker in Königsberg i. Pr.

Life

Career

Marcus Warschauer completed his commercial apprenticeship at the Ottenzoser trading house in his hometown. He then went to Berlin, where he was an employee of the Mendel Oppenheims bank (1758–1820). He recommended him to his older brother, the banker Wolff Oppenheim (1753–1828) in Königsberg i. Pr., Where Warschauer continued his career. In 1807, Warsaw married Rebecca Oppenheim (1784–1865), the daughter of his boss, and in the same year became a partner in the bank, which was henceforth called Oppenheim & Co. After Wolff Oppenheim's departure in 1824, the company was managed by his son Mendel Wolff Oppenheim (1780–1863, from 1826: Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim) and Marcus Warschauer, and from then on it was called Oppenheim & Warschauer.

The Warschauer family had a country house in a large park called "Karlsruhe" in the Königsberg district of Mittelhufen next to Luisenwahl . In 1817, together with his father-in-law Wolff Mendel Oppenheim, Warschauer purchased the Groß Holstein Castle and forestry from David Meyer Friedländer west of Königsberg in the administrative district of Moditten , which he had bought in 1812 for 70,000 thalers. In 1835 he sold the castle and estate to the previous tenant Ferdinand Adolf Gottfried Magnus.

Since 1800 he was a member of the Society of Friends , founded in 1792 , whose members supported each other in cases of poverty, unemployment, illness and death.

Johann Eduard Wolff portrayed Marcus Warschauer around 1820. The picture is in the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg.

family

Marcus Warschauer married Rebecca Oppenheim on August 12, 1807. They had five daughters and a son, whom the couple baptized while remaining in Judaism themselves .

  • Berta (Becha) Jeda Warschauer (* 1811).
  • Clara Alexandrine Warschauer (1814–1883) married the lawyer Eduard von Simson (1810–1899) in 1834 .
  • Caroline Eveline Warschauer (* 1815).
  • Robert Warschauer (1816–1884) married Marie Mendelssohn (1822–1891), daughter of the Berlin banker Alexander Mendelssohn .
  • Charlotte Alexandrine Warschauer (1819–1913) married the manor owner Anton Douglas (1807–1883) and lived on the Amalienau estate .
  • Marie Josephine Warschauer (1820–1883) married her cousin, the farmer Adolph Oppenheim (1816–1894), and lived on the Hennickendorf manor, which had previously belonged to the Thaer family .

literature

  • Panwitz, Sebastian: The bank chronicles Oppenheim & Warschauer by Felix Alexander; in: Mendelssohn Studies 18 (2013), pp. 322–348.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Panwitz: The Bank chronicles Oppenheim & Warsaw Felix Alexander; in: Mendelssohn Studies 18 (2013), pp. 322–348, here p. 326.
  2. ^ Karl Faber: The main and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Grafe & Unser, Königsberg, 1840, p. 153.
  3. ^ Schloss Groß Holstein , on Ostpreußen.net, accessed July 9, 2015
  4. ^ Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, list of works, room 3: Portrait of the Königsberg banker Marcus Warschauer
  5. ^ Amalienau Palace , Anton Douglas Landowner von Amalienau, accessed July 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Warsaw, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish banker of the Oppenheim & Warschauer bank in Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1835
Place of death Berlin