Paul von Schwabach
Paul Hermann Schwabach , von Schwabach since 1907 (born May 6, 1867 in Berlin , † November 17, 1938 in Kerzendorf ) was a German historian and banker .
Life
He was the son of the banker Julius Leopold Schwabach (1831–1898) and his wife Leonie Schwabach, née Keyzer. He succeeded his father as senior director of the S. Bleichröder bank . In 1896 Schwabach married the banker's daughter Eleanor Schröder (1869–1942) from Hamburg. The children Leonie (1898–1954), Vera (1899–1996) and Paul Julius (1902–1938) came from this marriage . Leonie (called Lally ) married the diplomat Alfred Horstmann . Vera married the banker, art collector and philanthropist Eduard von der Heydt in 1919 , but later divorced.
The doctorate historian Paul Schwabach converted from Judaism to evangelical commitment and looked fully as a German patriot . The feudal Prussian union club Hoppegarten rejected his application for membership in 1899, probably not so much because of his Jewish origins, but rather because of his affiliation with the stock exchange .
Paul Schwabach was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1907 by Kaiser Wilhelm II because of his services in banking and as British Consul General . He was an important figure in international high finance and worked behind the scenes in the service of German foreign policy. During the First World War , Schwabach served as an officer in the General Government of Belgium . From 1911 to 1933 he was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .
The Schwabach family lived in the Kerzendorf estate near Ludwigsfelde, acquired by Julius Leopold Schwabach in the summer of 1933 and also in the winter .
Paul von Schwabach died of a pulmonary embolism on November 17, 1938, according to the report of the granddaughter Gloria von Schubert, who was "in close proximity" and who opposed the legend that her grandfather had committed suicide ("he was a far too convinced Christian for that "). He was buried in a hereditary funeral in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The preserved three-axis grave wall made of polished black granite is located on the south wall of the cemetery facing Baruther Straße, next to the mausoleum that was built for the coal magnate Fritz von Friedländer-Fuld . The tomb of his father Julius Leopold Schwabach in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee has also been preserved .
literature
- Lally Horstmann: No reason for tears. Notes from the fall of Berlin 1943–1946. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-509-3 .
- Gerhard Birk : Kerzendorf. Historical mosaic of a Brandenburg manor village . Appeared in the series Blown Traces . Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 1998, ISBN 3-931329-11-9 .
- Reinhold Zilch: Schwabach, Paul Hermann von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 776 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jewish Community of Berlin (eds.), Jörg Kuhn and Fiona Laudamus (edit.): The Jewish cemetery Schönhauser Allee Berlin. Berlin 2011, p. 30, No. 11.
Individual evidence
- ^ Morten Reitmayer: Bankers in the Empire. Social profile and habitus of German high finance. (= Critical Studies in History. Volume 136.) Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-35799-0 , p. 158. ( limited preview of Google books)
- ↑ Birk (see literature), p. 84.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 246, 357.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwabach, Paul von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwabach, Paul Hermann von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian and banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1938 |
| Place of death | Kerzendorf (Ludwigsfelde) |