Marx Lowenstein

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Marx Löwenstein (born November 29, 1824 in Walsdorf near Idstein , † April 23, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main as Marks John Livingston ) was a German-American multimillionaire.

Life

Löwenstein is said to have embezzled sales proceeds on the occasion of a cattle market in Hochheim in the 1840s; This representation goes back to a newspaper article from 1926, but could be refuted on the basis of the traditional cattle trade protocols. He emigrated to America around 1846/47 and paid his brothers Frank (Feist) and Löb the crossing. In 1848 the so-called California Gold Rush began , in which the brothers also wanted to participate. One of them stayed in New York while Markus Löwenstein moved to San Francisco to order the goods in New York that the gold diggers were looking for. Usually they paid with gold dust or grains. Part of the profit was then invested in real estate in the rapidly expanding city of San Francisco and they earned a fortune in the millions. Before that, at the age of 24, he married 17-year-old Franziska (Frances) Marks (born April 17, 1831 in Herchweiler, Palatinate ) in Louisville (Kentucky ).

Livingston horse stable

The eldest daughter Fanny was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1853. The son Josef Leopold, called Joe, was born in San Francisco in 1856 , as was the youngest daughter Rose in 1860 . In San Francisco the family was called Livingston from then on . In 1867 Livingston visited his home parish in Walsdorf, paid off minor debts and showed benevolence towards the residents of his former home parish. In the same year he returned to San Francisco.

In 1870 Marks Livingston and Frank (Feist) moved back to Germany with their families and settled in Frankfurt as rentiers . The brother Löw and his family followed them in 1876.  Marx Livingston and his family lived in the Villa Bockenheim at Bockenheimer Landstrasse 33 until his death on April 23, 1889. Not far from the villa, Ulmenstrasse 20, he left in 1880 for carriages, horses and coachmen Build the Neo-Baroque Livingston horse stable , which has been preserved to this day, in which the carriages on the 1st floor were accommodated by means of an elevator due to a lack of space.

progeny

The stable was sold after Marx Löwenstein's death, the villa was bequeathed to his daughter Rose, who did not stay there and later sold the villa to the neighbors at No. 35, Kahn, to finance her foundations; Her mother moved to Reuterweg 34 soon after she became a widow . Her daughter Fanny married Dr. Salomon Herxheimer . He was the first dermatologist in Frankfurt, headed a clinic for skin and venereal diseases and died on August 12, 1899 in a mountain accident. In his memory, his widow founded the “Sanitätsrat Dr. Salomon Herxheimer Foundation ”. She donated a foundation capital of 100,000 RM for free treatment of needy skin diseases. Her mother Frances (Franziska) Livingston also gave this foundation 20,000 RM in her will. His brother Karl Herxheimer , later also a famous dermatologist, took over the management of the clinic and later managed to integrate it into the university clinic he co-founded.

Son Josef Leopold (Joe) continued the family business and married in a rich bank in the USA.

Daughter Rose remained unmarried. After the death of her father, she moved from her parents' villa to Myliusstraße 28. In 1891 she converted to the Protestant faith. In 1909 she set up two foundations in Frankfurt: The Nellini pen , with a foundation capital of 1,137,380 marks, as a home for single old women, and the painting of the Lukaskirche , with approx. 250,000 marks. The paintings for the church were designed in 1910–1918 by Wilhelm Steinhausen , whose large formats The Evening and the Morning were recorded in the Nellin pen (the paintings changed hands in 2009). The construction of the monastery, Cronstettenstr. 57, designed in 1912/13 by the then star architect Bruno Paul in neoclassical style and in the style of a stately country house.

literature

  • Harald Jenner: The Livingston family and the Nellini pen in Frankfurt am Main . Verlag Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-934123-20-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anni Jacob: Three Walsdorf benefactors . In: Idsteiner Heimatschau . No. 11 . Grandpierre, Idstein October 16, 1926.
  2. ↑ Werner Janzing: "Counter-representation" Markus Löwenstein. In: Rund um den Hutturm, Bürgerbrief No. 107. Bürgererverein Walsdorf eV, November 2019, accessed on December 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Helmuth Leichtfuß: Mordge or Mark Lowenstein called Marks Livingston. In: Rund um den Hutturm, Bürgerbrief No. 43. Bürgererverein Walsdorf eV, December 1988, accessed on December 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hanna Lachmann: News from the founder of the Livingston Foundation. In: Rund um den Hutturm, Bürgerbrief No. 66. Bürgererverein Walsdorf eV, August 1996, accessed on December 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hanna Lachmann: Rose Livingston - founder of the Nellini pen. In: Rund um den Hutturm, Bürgerbrief No. 66. Bürgererverein Walsdorf eV, August 1996, accessed on December 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein, Marx
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Livingston, Marks John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American multimillionaire
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsdorf near Idstein
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1889
Place of death Frankfurt am Main