Moritz Daniel Volkmar

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Moritz Daniel Volkmar (born March 30, 1792 in Berlin as Moritz Daniel Levy ; † March 26, 1864 in Berlin) was a German broker and banker .

Life

His family came from Poznan . From there, his grandfather Salomon Moses Levy (approx. 1720–1778) immigrated to Berlin in the middle of the 18th century. Of his five children, his uncle Moses Salomon Levy (1757–1813) became a successful banker, coin dealer and grain wholesaler. His younger brother, Daniel Salomon Levy (1766-1845), was Moritz Daniel's father. His mother was Rebecca (1770-1822), daughter of Liepmann Meyer.

Levy trained in business and became a banker like his uncle Moses Salomon. He later worked as an agent at the Royal Prussian Main Bank and as a fund, money and exchange broker . Around 1837 he was baptized and changed his family name to Volkmar.

In 1811 Levy joined the support organization Society of Friends , as its economist he was 1830-1863. In this function he provided the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer with commissions several times . In 1842 Meyerbeer's composition “Dem Vaterland - À la Patrie” for two tenors, two basses and four-part male choir was premiered on the 50th anniversary of the company . On March 3, 1861, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new ballroom of the association at Neue Friedrichstrasse 35, another large choral work by Meyerbeer followed, in which choir members of the Berlin Court Opera took part.

family

Levy had been married to Louise Goldschmidt, daughter of the pawnbroker Hirsch Bendix Goldschmidt, since 1816. Your children were:

  • Leopold Volkmar (1817–1864), lawyer,
  • Benny Moritz Volkmar (1818-1851),
  • Julie Volkmar, married. Löwenstein (1820–1869),
  • Rebecka Clara Volkmar (* 1822),
  • Johanna Friederique Volkmar, married. Benary (1823-1857),
  • Hermann, from 1838 Carl Friedrich Volkmar (* 1825),
  • Antonie Volkmar (1827–1903), painter,
  • Doris Volkmar, married. Countess von Posadowsky-Wehner (1829–1873) and
  • Wilhelm Volkmar (* 1835).

Literature and Sources

  • Steven M. Lowenstein Levin: The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770–1830 , Oxford University Press, Los Angeles, 1994.
  • Jakob Jakobson: The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851 , Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1962.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer: Correspondence and Diaries. Vol. 8 ed. and commented by Sabine Henze-Döhring, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-019231-5 , p. 714.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, Vol. 25, No. 13, p. 183 f of March 26, 1861.
  2. ^ Secret State Archives Berlin PK , VIII. HA, J1, No. 1–2
personal data
SURNAME Volkmar, Moritz Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levy, Moritz Daniel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German broker and banker
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1864
Place of death Berlin