Otto Braunfels

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Otto Braunfels (born September 9, 1841 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 16, 1917 there ) was a German banker, patron and liberal politician.

family

Otto Braunfels was born as Jesaias Hochstädter. His father was the teacher at Philanthropin (* June 25, 1805; † June 30, 1841), his mother was his wife Fanny nee Schreyer (* September 22, 1808; † September 26, 1885). Both parents were of Jewish faith. The father died before he was born. The mother married Ludwig Braunfels for the second time in Frankfurt in 1852 . He had converted to the Protestant faith in 1835. In 1861 Ludwig Braunfels adopted Otto, who then bore the name Braunfels and also converted to the Protestant faith.

Braunfels married Spohr, born May 29, 1870 in Quedlinburg Ida (born May 20, 1846 in Harzgerode , † March 23, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main), the daughter of the physician Franz Spohr. The family lived in the Villa Kissel in Frankfurt .

Life

Braunfels attended elementary school and then completed a bank apprenticeship in Frankfurt am Main and Paris (at the Halphen diamond house). From the age of 20 he worked for the diamond company Halphen as a representative in New York, where he also represented banking interests. In 1871 he returned to Frankfurt as a multimillionaire. There he first became an authorized signatory, then a partner and finally in 1900 senior partner at Bank Jacob SH Stern . He was also a member of the supervisory boards of Deutsche Bank , Deutsch-Asiatische Bank , Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft, Schantung-Bahn , Baghdad-Bahn and Metallbank . He also represented Bank Jacob SH Stern on the Central Committee of the Reichsbank and was an advisor to Finance Minister Johannes von Miquel . From 1907 he had the title of a secret councilor of commerce and was a Spanish consul .

politics

Between 1885 and 1908 he was Frankfurt city councilor for the National Liberal Association. From 1905 until his death in 1917 he was a member of the Nassau municipal parliament.

Foundations

He was the founder of the "Otto and Ida Braunfels Foundation" and the "Anni-Heim". He made a significant contribution to the foundation assets of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Academy for Practical Medicine .

literature

  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 99 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 86.
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 52–53.

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personal data
SURNAME Braunfels, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hochstätter, Isaiah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Banker, patron, politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1917
Place of death Frankfurt am Main