Oppenheim (Berlin family)

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The Oppenheim family is a German family that first lived in Königsberg , then in Berlin and was involved in banking in the 19th century, among other things . She was related to the Mendelssohns and the Warsawers.

history

The Königsberg-Berlin family found its origin with the banker Wolff Oppenheim , the first-born son of Mendel Joseph .

In the summer of 1753 turned Nathan Veitel (son of) Heine (Chaim) Ephraim (1703-1775), owner of several gold and silver factories, the King Friedrich II. The request, the privilege for his second son, Joseph, Ephraim on Mendel Joseph transferred allow. In December 1755 Frederick II granted the merchant Mendel Joseph (around 1720-1758) from Schoten an der Memel , Courland , who was able to prove a fortune of 12,000 thalers , a protection privilege for Königsberg (Prussia) , against a payment of 1,000 thalers to the Batch checkout.

Mendel Joseph (* around 1720; † around 1758 in Königsberg) married Rahel (* around 1734–1790), she married Isaac David in her second marriage , and in her third marriage Süßkind Oppenheim (* around 1732 in Hamburg ; † September 9, 1809 in Königsberg ), Merchant , community leader and protective Jew with general privilege in Königsberg from October 28, 1779.

Tribe list

Rahel's first marriage to Mendel Joseph established the Königsberg line of Oppenheim, which later also produced the Oppenfeld line, which was raised to the nobility . The common sons took the name of their stepfather Oppenheim . These goods:

Rosa Oppenheim, around 1830, by August Grahl (1792–1868)
Benoit Oppenheim the Elder Ä. with his sisters Anna, the wife of Hugo Oppenheim and Marie, wife of Ernst von Leyden
Franz Oppenheim , around 1900
  1. Wolff Mendel Oppenheim (March 13, 1753 in Königsberg; † January 17, 1828 ibid), negotiator and banker ⚭ June 17, 1772 with Henriette Goldschmidt (1756–1832), called Jette , daughter of Jonathan Maier Oldenburg Goldschmidt (1700–1778) and the Buna Miriam Poppert († 1772) from Hamburg .
    1. Bona (Bune Brune) Oppenheim (* 1775 in Königsberg; † August 17, 1836 in Dresden) ⚭ David Meyer Joachim Friedländer (* June 23, 1769 in Königsberg; † October 9, 1825 there).
      1. Jonathan Friedländer (1793–1863), called John, landowner in Königsberg ⚭ Amalie Heine (1800–1838)
    2. Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim (born February 1, 1781 in Königsberg, † October 10, 1863 in Dresden ), banker (before the Christian baptism of Mendel Wolff Oppenheim ) ⚭ 1810 Rosa, b. Alexander (born March 15, 1792; † January 4, 1849 in Dresden), daughter of Abraham Alexander from Königsberg and Martha born. Seligmann († 1844 in Dresden)
      1. Rudolph Oppenheim (* July 2, 1811 in Königsberg; † June 4, 1871 in Arnau, East Prussia) businessman, banker and Belgian consul ⚭ Dorothea (* 1818), b. Heimann.
        1. Martha Helena Dorothea Oppenheim (born July 5, 1841 in Danzig; † August 21, 1912) ⚭ 1861 Raimund Behrend (1832–1906), landowner in Arnau in the Königsberg district and member of the Reichstag of the German Empire
          1. two sons and a daughter: Dora Eleonore Behrend (1877– after 1945), writer
        2. Marie Oppenheim, also called Rie (* July 31, 1844; † August 28, 1932 in Berlin) ⚭ 1868 the doctor Ernst von Leyden (1832-1910).
        3. Benoit Alexander Oppenheim (born August 25, 1842 in Königsberg; † May 5, 1931 in Berlin) ⚭ 1870 Lina Louise (1850–1890), daughter of Ernst von Saucken-Tarputschen , took over his father's banking business
          1. Rudolph Oppenheim the Elder J. (February 22, 1871 in Berlin; † August 16, 1922 ibid), lawyer ⚭ 1896 Marguerite Worrell Everett (1867–1939)
            1. Louise Oppenheim (born November 29, 1896 in Santa Barbara (California), † January 15, 1982 Stockbridge (Massachusetts))
            2. Katharina Oppenheim (born July 20, 1900 in Berlin)
          2. Lina Louise Oppenheim (born August 1, 1872 in Wannsee; † August 17, 1960 in Falkenstein Taunus), teacher ⚭ 1897 Raoul Richter (1871–1912)
            1. five children: Gustav Richter (* 1900), Büdich Richter (* 1900), Eveline Richter (* 1904) ⚭ 1930 Herbert Schütte, Leo Richter (* 1906), Roland Richter (* 1908)
          3. Kurt Oppenheim (born March 10, 1874 in Berlin; † October 22, 1882 there)
          4. Benoit Oppenheim the Elder J. (born September 18, 1876 in Berlin; † February 5, 1934 ibid), lawyer and banker ⚭ 1920 Cécile von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born January 6, 1898), daughter of the banker Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the marriage was divorced
            1. Louise Oppenheim (* March 6, 1922; † 2013) ⚭ 1) 1943 Hans Zielinski (* 1913); ⚭ 2) 1953 Georg Wriedt (* 1922)
            2. Vera Oppenheim (* June 8, 1923) ⚭ 1944 Fritz Schieckel (* 1912)
        4. Anna Rosa Oppenheim (born May 1, 1849; † April 17, 1931) ⚭ 1871 her cousin, the banker Hugo Oppenheim (1847–1921), who founded the banking house Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn in 1912 after having been a partner in Robert Warschauer for many years & Co. had been.
      2. Elisabeth Julie Oppenheim (born April 12, 1813 in Königsberg; † January 4, 1905 in Dresden) ⚭ 1832 the painter August Grahl (born May 26, 1791 in Poppentin, Mecklenburg; † June 13, 1868 in Dresden).
        1. Marie Grahl (1832–1895) ⚭ 1851 the painter Alfred Rethel
          1. Else Rethel (1853–1933) ⚭ 1873 the painter Karl Rudolf Sohn
        2. Hugo Grahl (1834–1905) agricultural scientist ⚭ 1865 Anna Kummer (1844–1925), daughter of Carl Robert Kummer
        3. Rose Grahl (1835–1909) ⚭ 1875 the agricultural scientist Adolf Stengel
        4. Martha Grahl (* 1837), she was five months old
        5. Anna Grahl (1838–1897) ⚭ 1865 the literary scholar Hermann Hettner
        6. Otto Gustav Grahl (1839–1875) architect
        7. Felix Grahl (1841–1842), he was only one year old
        8. Alexe Grahl (1844–1903) photographer
        9. Katharina Grahl, called Käthe (1847–1933) ⚭ 1873 Leopold Just (1841–1891), professor of botany at the TH Karlsruhe
          1. Gerhard Just (1877–1944), chemist
      3. Adolph Oppenheim (born January 16, 1816 in Königsberg; † April 3, 1894 in Berlin) farmer and manor cousin Marie Josephine Warschauer (1820–1883).
        1. Otto Alexander Wilhelm Marcus Oppenheim (1841–1908)
        2. Marie Alexandrine Rosa Oppenheim (* 1843) ⚭ 1865 the mathematician Karl Wilhelm Borchardt (1817–1880)
          1. Emma Margarethe Borchardt (born October 27, 1871 - † March 20, 1895)
        3. Adolph Oppenheim (1852-1924)
        4. Paul Oppenheim
      4. Otto Georg Oppenheim (born May 2, 1817 in Königsberg; † November 27, 1909 in Berlin), lawyer and senior tribunal councilor ⚭ 1843 Margarethe Anna Henriette Mendelssohn (1823–1890), second daughter of the banker Alexander Mendelssohn
        1. Else Elisabeth Rosa Marianne Oppenheim (born January 16, 1844 in Berlin; † August 20, 1868) ⚭ 1867 first marriage of: Paul Felix Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born January 18, 1841 in Leipzig; † February 17, 1880 in Berlin), chemist
          1. Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born March 2, 1868 in Berlin, † July 26, 1949 in Basel) banker and industrialist
        2. Margarete Marie Oppenheim (1845–1847)
        3. Hugo Oppenheim (born February 5, 1847 in Berlin; † January 23, 1921 Renice), banker and Privy Councilor ⚭ his cousin Anna Rosa Oppenheim (1849–1931), daughter of Rudolph Oppenheim
          1. Else Oppenheim (born August 29, 1873 in Berlin; † January 19, 1945 in Bad Neuenahr) ⚭ 1895 the painter Josef Block (1863–1943)
            1. Anna Luise Block (1896–1982), publicist ⚭ 1) Jones; ⚭ 2) Heinrich Hauser (1901–1955), writer; ⚭ 3) Alfred Winslow Jones (1900–1989), financial journalist
            2. Hugo Block (1897–1989), photographer
            3. Otto Block (1901–1977), architect
          2. Luise Margarete Oppenheim (1875–1926) ⚭ the officer Hans Petersen (1867–1944)
          3. Margarethe Oppenheim (1877–1939) ⚭ 1897 the painter Charles Frederic Ulrich (1858–1908)
          4. Anna Oppenheim (1879–1946)
          5. Robert Oppenheim , also Hugo Rudolf Otto Robert (* July 9, 1882 in Berlin; † 1956 in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA), private banker ⚭ 1) 1913 Charlotte Simon (* December 7, 1894, † December 14, 1964 in Königstein im Taunus), a daughter of Eduard Simon ; ⚭ 2) 1921 Marie Pinner (1891–1979); ⚭ 3) 1931 Ehrentraut Margaret von Ilberg (1901–1962) emigrated with her to the USA in 1940.
            1. Hugo Oppenheim, later Opton (1917–1989) - of 1)
            2. Alexander Oppenheim, later Oldham (1925-2010) - of 2)
            3. Imogene Anna Oppenheim, later Opton (born April 25, 1932) - of 3) ⚭ Kenneth Fish
            4. Roberta Oppenheim, later Opton (born April 25, 1932) - of 3)
        4. Rosa (Rose) Enole Henriette Oppenheim (* December 20, 1849; † 1933) ⚭ Heinrich George August Paul Steffen (1834–1896), officer
        5. Franz Oppenheim (born July 13, 1852 in Charlottenburg; † February 13, 1929 in Cairo), chemist and industrialist, mainly working for the Agfa company ⚭ 1) 1881 Elizabeth Wollheim (1858–1904); ⚭ 2) 1907 Margarete Eisner, widowed Reichenheim (1857–1935)
          1. Rose Oppenheim (* 1881)
          2. Martha Oppenheim (1882–1971) ⚭ 1901 her relatives Ernst von Simson (1876–1941), lawyer, civil servant, entrepreneur, grandson of Eduard von Simson .
            1. six children, including the art historian Otto von Simson (1912–1993) and the painter Vita Petersen , b. Viktoria von Simson (1915-2011)
          3. Franz Caesar Oppenheim (1884–1887)
          4. Kurt Oppenheim (1886–1947) chemist and businessman ⚭ 1914 Margarethe Seidel (1892–1972), daughter of the art historian Paul Seidel . They had 3 children.
        6. Enole Margarethe Alexandrine Oppenheim (born July 1, 1855 in Genzano di Lucania; † March 29, 1939 in Berlin) ⚭ 1873 second marriage of: Paul Felix Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born January 18, 1841 in Leipzig; † February 17, 1880 in Berlin ), Chemist
          1. Cecile Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874–1923) ⚭ William Henry Gilbert (1860–1906)
          2. Lili Sophie Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1876–1927) ⚭ Friedrich Passini (1868–1938)
          3. Ludwig Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1878–1918), banker ⚭ 1905 Edith Speyer (1882–1969), social and cultural politician
          4. Robert Paul Hugo Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1879–1956) chemist and director of Agfa ⚭ Johanna Nauheim (1891–1948)
        7. Clara (Cläre) Elizabeth Margarethe Oppenheim (born January 2, 1861 in Berlin; † 1944 there) ⚭ 1880 the gynecologist Adolf Gusserow (1836–1906)
      5. Felix Alexander Oppenheim (born October 7, 1819 in Königsberg Pr .; † February 2, 1898 in Berlin), lawyer and photographer
    3. Rebecca Oppenheim (born November 30, 1784 in Königsberg; † August 31, 1806) ⚭ Marcus Warschauer (* 1777 in Breslau; † 1835 in Berlin) banker in Königsberg
      1. Eveline (Berta Becha Jeda) Warsaw (* 1811)
      2. Clara Alexandrine Warschauer (1814–1883) ⚭ 1834 Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), President of the Frankfurt National Assembly, President of the North German Reichstag and later President of the Imperial Court in Leipzig. The couple had nine children including:
        1. August von Simson (1837-1927), lawyer
        2. Bernhard von Simson (1840–1915), historian
      3. Robert Wilhelm Adolphe Warschauer (1816–1884) ⚭ 1840 Marie Josephine (1822–1891), first daughter of the banker Alexander Mendelssohn
        1. Anna Marie Emilie Josephine Warschauer (1841–1866) ⚭ 1864 the painter Ludwig Johann Passini (1832–1903)
          1. Marie Clara Louise Passini (1865–1954) ⚭ 1888 Paul Siegfried von Herrmann (1857–1921), lawyer
        2. Marie Margarethe Marianne Clara Warschauer (1855–1906) ⚭ 1875 Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1846–1909) banker from the Mendelssohn family
        3. Markus Robert Alexander Warschauer (1860–1918) ⚭ 1) Katharina Eckert (1864–1900), ⚭ 2) Adéle Thévoz (1877–1941)
          1. Maria Warschauer (1891–1948) ⚭ Edgar Fuld
          2. Alice Warschauer (1906–2002) ⚭ Bill Woods
          3. Marguerite Warschauer (1906–1999) ⚭ Kurt Arthur Solmssen (1905–1989), banker, son of the banker Arthur Salomonsohn
            1. Arthur Solmssen (* 1928), lawyer
              1. Peter Y. Solmssen (* 1955), manager
            2. Peter Solmssen
          4. Robert Warschauer III, from 1938 Thevoz (1911–1982), historian
      4. Alexandrine (Charlotte Alexandra) Warschauer (1819–1913) ⚭ Anton Douglas (1807–1883) manorial estate owner, lived on Gut Amalienau .
      5. Marie Josephine Warschauer (1820–1883) ⚭ their cousin Adolph Oppenheim (1816–1894) and lived on the Rüdersdorf manor, which previously belonged to the Thaer family .
    4. Mathilde Oppenheim (* October 1786; † around 1850) ⚭ Wiliam Schwarz
    5. Jonathan Oppenheim (1788-1850)
  2. Mendel Oppenheim (born March 12, 1758 in Königsberg i. Pr .; † January 17, 1820 in Berlin), banker , he took the name of his stepfather. Married to Henriette Jüttche (born June 11, 1767 in Berlin; December 16, 1842 in Berlin, buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery ), daughter of Daniel Itzig (1723–1799), banker. Her sister Caroline Kela († 8 April 1856 in Berlin) married to an accountant and a partner of the bank of her father, Michael Wolff (born April 22, 1771 Dessau , † 1856) → continue with Oppen field

literature

  • Wiltrud Irion: From August Grahl to the Oppenheims: Roots of a Dresden family . Neopubli, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7418-2003-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ (Editing) Meta Kohnke, (Eds.) Bernd Braun, Manfred Jehle, Andreas Reinke, Stefi Jersch-Wenzel, Reinhard Rürup : Sources on the history of the Jews in the archives of the new federal states . Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage, Part 1. de Gruyter Saur 1999, ISBN 3-598-22442-7 , p. 447
  2. ^ E. Meyer: The Livonian rhyming chronicle by Dittlieb von Alnpeke . Franz Kluge, Reval 1848, pp. 136, 358, 360
  3. ↑ H. Jolowitcz: History of Jews in Konigsberg. Pr. A contribution to the moral history of the Prussian state . Joseph Jolowitcz, Posen 1867, p. 81
  4. ^ Jacob Jacobson : The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851 . With additions for the years 1791–1809. De Gruyter, 1962, ISBN 3-11-000448-8 , p. 53
  5. ^ Jacob Jacobson: Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759-1813 . With additions for the years from 1723 to 1759 (= Volume 4 of Quellenwerke, Volume 28 of publications by the Historical Commission in Berlin at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin, Historical Commission). De Gruyter, 1968, p. 275
  6. ^ Oppenheim, Kurt in the German Biography
  7. ^ Simson, Martin Eduard Sigismund from in the German biography
  8. ^ Amalienau Palace , Anton Douglas Landowner von Amalienau, accessed July 1, 2015
  9. ^ Jacob Jacobson: The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851 . With additions for the years 1791–1809. De Gruyter, 1962, ISBN 3-11-000448-8 , p. 53
  10. ^ Jacob Jacobson: Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759-1813 . With additions for the years from 1723 to 1759 (= Volume 4 of Quellenwerke, Volume 28 of publications by the Historical Commission in Berlin at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin, Historical Commission). De Gruyter, 1968, p. 343
  11. ^ Jacob Jacobson: The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851 . With additions for the years 1791–1809. De Gruyter, 1962, ISBN 3-11-000448-8 , p. 54