Moritz Guggenheimer

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Moritz Guggenheimer (born April 20, 1825 in Munich ; † July 26, 1902 there ) was a banker, head of the city council in Munich and first director of the Upper Bavaria Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Moritz Guggenheimer married the merchant's daughter Therese Maron in 1850. After this marriage was divorced in 1871, he married Helene, née Wolff, in 1879. Their daughter Hildegard later married the philosopher Manfred Schröter . Her sister Hedwig became known as a historian.

Moritz Guggenheimer's father had moved to Munich in 1825 as a small textile dealer (linen, silk) from Harburg in the Donau-Ries region. In 1855 Moritz Guggenheimer took over his father's company, Bernhard S. Guggenheimer, and ran it with great success.

In 1872 he founded the bank Brüder Guggenheimer & Co. together with his brothers Eduard and Josep . The bank was taken over by the Bayerische Vereinsbank in 1892 . From 1892 until his death in 1902 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Vereinsbank.

After the Löwenbräu brewery was converted into a stock corporation in 1872, he became chairman of the supervisory board and also remained in this position until his death.

From 1869 to 1873 Guggenheimer was the first director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Upper Bavaria

As a Jew, he was also involved in the Jewish community in Munich. Moritz Guggenheimer became a member in 1869 and chairman of the council of municipal representatives in 1870, comparable to today's city council. He was the first Jewish member on this body. In 1879 he resigned as head of the city council, in 1881 he resigned his mandate following anti-Semitic accusations.

Guggenheimers were honored with the title of Kommerzienrat .

swell

  • Richard Bauer, Michael Brenner: Jewish Munich: from the Middle Ages to the present. 2006, ISBN 3-406-54979-9 , pp. 103-104. (on-line)
  • Cornelia Knust: Look here - the entrepreneur Moritz Guggenheimer. In: Economy - The IHK magazine for Munich and Upper Bavaria. 09/2014. (on-line)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Steffan: Bayerische Vereinsbank 1869-1969. A regional bank through a century. H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1969.
  2. ↑ Harald Winkel: Economy on the move: the economic area Munich-Upper Bavaria and its Chamber of Industry and Commerce through the ages. 1990, ISBN 3-406-33903-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Guggenheimer, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1902
Place of death Munich