Paul Jonas (banker)
Paul Jonas (born February 19, 1830 in Schwerinsburg ; † January 21, 1913 ) was a German lawyer and banker.
Life
Paul Jonas came from an originally Jewish family; his grandfather had converted from Judaism to Christianity. His father was Ludwig Jonas , pastor at the Nikolaikirche in Berlin since 1833 and a liberal politician; his mother Elisabeth the eldest daughter of Count Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm Carl Graf von Schwerin ; one of his brothers was the later literary historian Fritz Jonas .
Unlike his father, Paul Jonas devoted himself to studying law at the universities of Berlin , Heidelberg and Halle . In Berlin he joined the Corps Marchia in 1850 . In 1857 he became a court assessor in Breslau , then a government assessor. In 1859 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works. In 1863 he moved to the Prussian railway administration . Until 1875 he remained President of the Royal Railway Directorate in Berlin .
After the early death of his first wife Henriette Adelheid Lehr (1842–1867), Jonas married the daughter of a sugar manufacturer, Helene König (1839–1926), a cousin of his first wife, in 1869.
In 1880 Paul Jonas moved to the management board of Deutsche Bank at the endeavors of his brother-in-law Adelbert Delbrück . There he was given the task of managing Deutsche Bank's participation in the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway in the USA . Jonas, with his security-conscious and risk-averse nature, very soon turned out to be the opposite pole to Georg von Siemens , who wanted to expand significantly abroad. In this context, Paul von Siemens referred to Jonas as “the millstone on his neck”. In 1887 there was a final break with Georg von Siemens, after which Jonas left the board. He remained on the board of directors until 1910.
Deutsche Bank was not the only institute in which Paul Jonas was involved. In 1882 he was managing director of the Kurfürstendamm-Gesellschaft , which operated real estate trading in the Berlin districts of Grunewald and Westend . Deutsche Bank had the largest share in the Kurfürstendamm corporation.
Paul Jonas had two villas: one in Berlin's Tiergartenstrasse 7, the former Werth residential building, and the other in Kulmstrasse 20 in Heringsdorf on Usedom . In 1912 Jonas was ascribed a fortune of over three million marks in the yearbook of the Prussian millionaires .
literature
- Birgit Jochens: The imperial baths on Usedom: a suburb of Berlin .
- Erichhabenberg: Berlin high finance. Emperors, princes, millionaires around 1900 . Frankfurt / M. 1965.
Web links
- Paul Jonas in the German biography
- Biography of the Historical Society of Deutsche Bank
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 4 , 291
- ↑ The family tree of the Bennecke family (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jonas, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerinsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1913 |