Max Arnhold
Max Arnhold (born April 17, 1845 in Dessau , † December 4, 1908 in Dresden ) was a Dresden banker and Freemason .
Life
Max Arnhold was a son of the Dessau doctor Adolph Arnhold (1808–1872) and his wife Mathilde, nee. Cohn (1826-1905). Eduard and Georg Arnhold were among his brothers .
In October 1864, together with Ludwig Philippson, he founded a bank in Dresden, which, after Philippson's departure in 1876 and the entry of Arnhold's brother Georg in 1881 , traded as the banking house Gebrüder Arnhold . This maintained close contact, particularly with the ceramics and brewery industry, and, not least through the takeover of M. Schie in 1891 and Koppel & Co. in 1897, became the leading banking house in Dresden.
Max Arnhold counted himself among the assimilated Dresden Jews and always advocated an understanding between the religions. Accordingly, at the turn of the century he founded a “social foundation”, which was headed by clergy from the two major Christian denominations and a rabbi, and which distributed its income equally to charities of all three denominations. When he died in 1908, he bequeathed 100,000 Reichsmarks to her.
In 1869 Arnhold joined the Masonic lodge To the three swords and Astraea to the green diamond , where he rose to master in 1872. In addition, he was an honorary member of the Lodge Charlotte to the three carnations in Meiningen and co-representative of the same at the Great State Lodge of Saxony.
Max Arnhold was cremated in the Chemnitz crematorium and buried in the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery in Dresden.
literature
- Simone Lässig: Jewish private banks in Dresden . In: Dresdner Hefte , No. 61, ISBN 3910055532 , pp. 85ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1908, p. 302.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnhold, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1908 |
| Place of death | Dresden |