Mayer Carl von Rothschild

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Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild

Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild (born August 5, 1820 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 16, 1886 there ) was a German banker and politician from the Rothschild family .

life and work

Rothschild was the eldest of four sons of Carl Mayer von Rothschild , the fourth of the five sons of the family founder Mayer Amschel Rothschild , and his wife Adelheid nee. Hertz. He received his training in various branches of the Rothschild house in Europe, in between he studied law in Göttingen in 1837 and in Berlin in 1838 . From 1843 he worked in the Frankfurt head office of the bank, which he took over management together with his younger brother Wilhelm Carl in 1855 after the death of his father and his uncle Amschel Mayer .

In 1842 he married Louise von Rothschild (1820-1894), daughter of his London uncle Nathan Mayer Rothschild . Together they had seven daughters, three of whom were married to members of the Rothschild family, two Christian nobles.

The Rothschild Palais on Untermainkai, today the seat of the Jewish Museum
Günthersburg Castle / Villa, architect Friedrich Rumpf

Rothschild was a member of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and co-founder of the Frankfurter Bank , Consul of Parma and Bavaria and Consul General of Austria . In 1866 he belonged to the delegation that negotiated with Otto von Bismarck in order to achieve more favorable conditions for the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by Prussia. From 1867 to 1871 he was a member of the Frankfurt city council and at the same time the North German Reichstag . In 1871 he became the first Jew to become a member of the Prussian manor house .

Rothschild and his wife also appeared as collectors and donors. He bequeathed his extensive library of his Villa Günthersburg to the city ​​library in a will . Louise von Rothschild donated the Clementine Children's Hospital in 1865 in memory of her daughter Clementine, who died young . The tradition of donations and foundations to the city of Frankfurt was continued by his daughters. Rothschild's fifth child, his daughter Hannah Luise von Rothschild , donated the Carolinum sanatorium in his memory in 1890 , which still exists today.

Rothschild Palace

In 1843, Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild acquired the neo-classical building at Untermainkai 15 from the city master builder Johann Friedrich Christian Hess and had it redesigned by Friedrich Rumpf . In 1887 the Freiherrlich Carl von Rothschild'sche public library , which Rothschild's daughter Hannah Luise von Rothschild had founded and whose namesake was Carl von Rothschild, moved into the palace . Today, as the Rothschild Palace, it is the seat of the Jewish Museum .

Villa Günthersburgpark

In 1845, his father, Carl Mayer von Rothschild , gave him extensive land in the north of the city of Frankfurt am Main, the so-called Günthersburg . Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild had Friedrich Rumpf build a new mansion there, the Palais / Villa Günthersburg, along with a park, tea house and orangery. Since 1850 there was a a. also the famous large-format painting Goethe in the Campagna , which Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein painted in Rome in 1786/87 . Tischbein himself brought it to Naples in 1798, where Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild bought it during a trip to Italy in 1840 and then brought it to his Villa Günthersburg from 1850. After the death of her father, his eldest daughter Adèle von Rothschild gave the city of Frankfurt am Main the painting Goethe in the Campagna by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, which is now in the Städel and is one of the most important works in the collection. Large parts of his significant silver collection from Villa Günthersburg are said to still be in the family's possession in Chateau Mouton. He bequeathed Günthersburgpark itself to the city of Frankfurt am Main with the condition in his will that it be made accessible to the public. As a testamentary condition, he decreed that his beloved classicist mansion, the Villa Günthersburg, was to be completely demolished. The thought of strangers walking around in his villa was unbearable to him. The tea house was destroyed by bombs in the Second World War, only the former orangery remained of the former buildings.

Grave of Mayer Carl von Rothschild (left) and his wife (right)

Rennhof Palace

In 1853 Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild had Rennhof Palace built in Empire style in Hüttenfeld , a district / part of the municipality of Hemsbach . The property is in the vicinity of Rothschild Castle in Hemsbach, now used as the town hall, which his father bought in 1839 as a villa (middle wing) from the Palatinate hunting councilor, Besen, and had it expanded into a Mediterranean-style castle with wings and corner towers. Just one year after the death of Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild, the castle was sold to a Prince Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg in 1887 . The Lithuanian High School Hüttenfeld has been based here since February 16, 1954 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 157.
  2. ↑ The Rothschild Palace and its history ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rothschild, Mayer Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothschild, Mayer Carl Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1886
Place of death Frankfurt am Main