Michael Heine

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Michael (Michel) Heine (born April 19, 1819 in Bordeaux , † November 10, 1904 in Paris ) was a French banker and businessman, nephew of the Hamburg banker Salomon Heine and cousin of the German poet Heinrich Heine . He emigrated to New Orleans (USA), where he married Marie Amélie von Miltenberg (born April 25, 1832 in New Orleans).

Together with his brother Armand and the Parisian banking house Rothschild Frères , he founded the A. & M. Heine banking house in New Orleans in the early 1860s, which also opened in Paris in the 1880s.

Bankhaus Fould and Bankhaus A. & M. Heine

In 1795, the Fould bank was founded by Beer Leon Fould in Paris, but the company name was changed several times, from the above name to BL Fould and Fould Oppenheim and Fould, Oppenheim & Co. to Fould & Co. Armand and Michel Heine became partners in the bank by Fould & Co.

From 1864 at the latest, they were self-employed in the USA under the name A. & M. Heine in New Orleans. In 1883, Armand and Michel Heine founded their own family bank in Paris under the name Armand & Michel Heine. Under its previous name, the bank was already involved in many railway construction business operations in Spain. In the USA, business was expanded to Louisiana and other cities in the east of the country. In 1881 A. & M. Heine bought the Panama Railroad together with Rothschild Frères .

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After the civil war in the United States, Michael and Marie Amélie went back to France and worked as real estate agents and architects there. Among other things, they designed luxury villas and country houses in and around Paris. They lived in Paris at Allee Hoche 21. Michael Heine invested in the cotton business and had financial ties with the French emperor. He and his wife were later buried in the family grave in the churchyard in Richelieu.

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Web links

  1. ^ Genealogy of the Heine family, on genea-bdf.org
personal data
SURNAME Heine, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heine, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French banker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1904
Place of death Paris