Max from Guaita

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Georg Clemens Philipp Maximilian von Guaita (born September 3, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 12, 1903 in Kronberg ) was a German businessman, local politician and association official.

The Secret Commerzienrat Max von Guaita came from Lombardy to Frankfurt a. M. The Guaita merchant family immigrated to the area and was ennobled in the early 19th century. She held stakes in numerous companies as well as extensive property around Frankfurt. Guaita was a partner in the Mumm wine shop ; Chairman of the supervisory board of the chemical factory Griesheim-Electron and member of several other supervisory boards ( Frankfurter Bank , Deutscher Phönix etc.).

Guaita was city councilor of the city of Frankfurt and from 1889 to 1892 vice president of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and from 1893 to 1899 its chairman. In 1893 he had a representative property built as a summer residence in Kronberg, the Villa Guaita , which is no longer standing today , on approx. 12 hectares of land. The societal high point of his career was the appointment to the manor house in 1901 by King Wilhelm II out of "the highest degree of trust" .

family

Guaita was the son of the merchant Anton von Guaita (1814–1875). At the age of 25 he married the 22-year-old Henriette Sophie Leve (born September 13, 1845 in Moscow † July 1, 1909 in Kronberg) on April 25, 1867 in Moscow , with whom he had two sons and three daughters.

  • Elisabeth von Guaita (* 1868 Frankfurt † 1892 Frankfurt), 24 years
  • Mathilde Sofie Annette von Guaita (born April 18, 1869 Frankfurt † March 13, 1955 Esher, Surrey) married Carl Georg Franz Richard (nickname) Schwerdt (born March 12, 1862 in Münster in Westphalia) on February 21, 1889.
  • Max Leberecht von Guaita (* July 5, 1874 Frankfurt † November 29, 1899 New York / USA) 25 years
  • Leon Georges Charles Louis Philipp von Guaita (* November 4, 1878 † November 17, 1932) 54 years, married Margit von Ploetz (* March 13, 1884 Wasserschloss Quilow † NN), was the owner of Storkau Castle (Elbe) from 1920 to 1932 / Tangermünde
  • Emilie Marie Julie von Guaita (born January 27, 1882 † June 24, 1953) 71 years old, married Heinrich Fritz Mumm von Schwarzenstein on September 28, 1901 and later moved into the villa Mumm (Kastanienhain house) in Kronberg, which still exists today .

The couple Max von Guaita and his wife Henriette Sophie, who paints herself, maintained close contacts with the Kronberg painters' colony . Especially through Professor Norbert Schrödl , a familiarity arose with Empress Friedrich , born Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (1840–1901). The mutual visits to Kronberg from 1894 between the widowed Empress Friedrich at Schloss Friedrichshof and the couple Max von Guiata in their Villa Guaita were reciprocal . Under his chairmanship, the Secret Commerce Councilor Max von Guaita ran a public fundraising campaign to create a lasting memory of the Empress Friedrich and placed an order with the artist Professor Adolf von Hildebrand . The initiator did not live to see the unveiling of the monument on June 18, 1904.

  • Monument remembrance of Viktoria Kaiserin Friedrich at the St.Johann Church in Kronberg

  • Viktoria Kaiserin Friedrich as widow, mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II

  • The widow's seat Friedrichshof of Viktoria Kaiserin Friedrich, today Schlosshotel Kronberg

  • Villa Guaita in Kronberg, laid down in 1961

According to a list (based on 1910), von Guaita's widow Sophie († 1909) was one of the 100 richest people in the empire with a fortune of 16-17 million Reichsmarks and an annual income of around 0.75 million Reichsmarks.

The family grave is located in the Frankfurt main cemetery .

literature

  • The Guaita Park: cultural history, existence and ecology of a historical open space , author: Johannes Wolf, published 1989, length 188 pages
  • Kurt Pritzkoleit: Who Owns Germany ? A Chronicle of Property and Power ; Vienna • Munich; Basel 1957; Pp. 61-72; The 100 richest in Prussia in 1910

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family research Pfeifer-Brentano
  2. ↑ Walk through the main cemetery to the grave monuments of important IHK presidents, on October 9, 2010. (PDF; 0.8 MB) Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft (Wipog), p. 4 , accessed on June 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Guaita, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guaita, Maximilian von; Guaita, Georg Philipp Clemens Maximilian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1903
Place of death Kronberg im Taunus