Philipp Abraham Cohen

Philipp Abraham Cohen (born March 25, 1790 in Hanover , † March 28, 1856 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Jewish entrepreneur.

His father, the royal chamber agent Abraham Herz Cohen (1746-1825; ∞ Amalia Gans from Celle), and his uncle Leffmann Herz Cohen (1751-1813) ran the Hanover private bank L. & AH Cohen and sold ores and metallurgical products for the Hanover government from the Harz Mountains, which resulted in an increased turn to the metal trade. The chamber agent Leffmann Behrens , also a Cohen, was one of his ancestors .

Together with his brother Alexander Cohen, Philipp learned the ore and metal trade, which was associated with banking and bills of exchange, in his father's bank.

In 1816 he married Eleonore Wertheim, the daughter of the Jewish banker Zacharias Isaak Wertheimer († 1809) from Frankfurt.

As a result of legal relief, he moved with his brother Alexander to Frankfurt around 1821-24, which at the time was the banking center of a region that consumed and processed metal.

His older daughter Sara Amalie († 1851) married Raphael / Ralph Moses (1817, London - 1883, Paris) in 1837 . In 1842 he went to Ems for a cure with his wife and daughter. Here they met the later son-in-law CE Oulmann from Paris.

In 1850 he had his "trading in metal goods, bills of exchange, commission and forwarding" entered in the commercial register. Many similar firms developed into banking. At Cohen, however, the banking business fell asleep and the metal trade came to the fore. His nephew, Philipp Ellinger († 1857; his son was Leo Ellinger) became an authorized signatory.

In 1855 Philipp Abraham Cohen retired and left the business to his son-in-law Moses, who, like his English relatives, changed his family name to Merton in 1856 and, after Cohen's death, continued the business with the Ellingers.

The metal company emerged from the Philipp Abraham Cohen company in 1881 .

literature

• Court finance and the modern state: history and system of court factors at German royal courts in the age of absolutism. According to archival sources ; Vol. 2, p. 63f: "The Cohen family of court factors"

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1. ↑ New Nekrolog der Deutschen ..., Volume 3, Part 2
2. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prohel/names/wertheimer/wertheimer.html
3. ^ H. Sommer: To the cure to Ems ; P. 325
4. ↑ Stefanie Knetsch: The Group's own banking institute of the Metallgesellschaft in the period from 1906 ..
5. ^ Jewish bourgeoisie in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century By Andrea Hopp; P. 78