Raphael von Erlanger
Raphael Erlanger , from 1859/1860 von Erlanger , from 1871 Baron von Erlanger (born June 27, 1806 in Wetzlar , † January 30, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Frankfurt politician and banker . In 1848 he founded the Erlanger & Sons banking house , which later expanded to Vienna, Paris and London.
Life
Raphael Erlanger (from 1859 Raphael von Erlanger) was the third of seven children of the broker Löb Moses, later Ludwig Moritz Erlanger (* 1780 in Heddernheim , † 1857 in Frankfurt / M.) And his wife Jette Beer, later Henriette Erlanger (1780– 1856). Like his father, he first became a broker on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In 1842 he acquired the Villa Leonhardi .
In 1848 he founded his own banking and exchange business (the first alongside Rothschild ), which was converted into Erlanger & Sons in 1865 . As head of the Frankfurt parent company and the banking houses in Vienna , Paris and London he founded in the 1850s , he concluded important financial transactions for the governments of various countries. In 1853, along with Mendelssohn & Co. , he was instrumental in founding the Weimarische Bank. In 1855 he initiated the establishment of the Landgräfliche Hessische Landesbank in Homburg. In 1856 he was a leader in founding the International Bank in Luxembourg , and in 1868 also at the Oldenburgische Landesbank .
In recognition of these services, he was appointed Portuguese baron on November 19, 1859, raised to the Saxon-Meiningian nobility on October 9, 1860, and to the Austrian baron on August 25, 1871. He was the Portuguese and Scandinavian consul general, court banker and the confidante of numerous German and foreign princes. In the 1860s he was also politically active in many ways.
From 1859 he was a member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society .
In 1862 he founded the Frankfurter Hypothekenbank with the Bethmann brothers (today part of the Hypothekenbank Frankfurt ) and brought Egypt's first bond onto the market. In 1864 he bought the Schleswig-Holstein railway from English ownership on behalf of Bismarck.
On September 13, 1871 he founded the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Baugesellschaft zu Frankfurt am Main together with Ludwig von Erlanger, Simon Moritz von Bethmann , Franz Borgnis, the brothers Zacharias and Isaak Königswarter and government councilor Ms. Wiesenbach .
In 1876 he donated the Kaiserbrunnen .
His grave in Frankfurt's main cemetery is a listed building. The grave monument of the sculptor Gustav Kaupert is a neo-baroque sarcophagus made of white marble on lion's paws and is decorated with cherubim on the narrow sides. The pedestal with a series of pillars in front is striking. The bronze family coat of arms, which was held by two griffins on the front, was stolen.
family
On August 15, 1829, the Jew Raphael Erlanger was baptized Lutheran in Offenburg . This gave him the opportunity on April 25, 1832 , to marry his childhood sweetheart Margarethe Helene Albert (* November 17, 1800, † July 1, 1834), the daughter of Johann Valentin Albert . He had three children with her:
- Susanne Adolphine von Erlanger (1829–1843): married the Frankfurt merchant Franz Josef Carl Langenberger (1821–1878) on August 18, 1849. He later became a partner in the Erlanger & Sons banking house and at times head of its Paris branch;
- Frédéric Emile Baron d'Erlanger (1832-1911);
- Wilhelm Hermann Carl von Erlanger (1835–1909).
After the death of his first wife, Erlanger married her sister, Ida Maria Albert (1809–1889) on March 7, 1836. He had two children with her:
- Ludwig Gottlieb Friedrich von Erlanger (1836–1898);
- Viktor Alexander von Erlanger (1840-1894).
Raphael Erlanger's youngest brother Marx was also baptized Lutheran on June 2, 1843 and then took the name Christian Wilhelm Maximilian Erlanger. He worked as music director in Frankfurt am Main .
literature
- Franz Lerner: Erlanger, Raphael Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 593 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nature and Museum
- ↑ Chapter X: The culture fighters Otto Glagau: The stock exchange and start-up swindle in Berlin . Published by Paul Frohberg, Leipzig 1876
- ↑ Bettina Erche: Frankfurt main cemetery . Supplementary volume on the monument topography of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-921606-35-7 , p. 192 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erlanger, Raphael von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erlanger, Raphael Freiherr von (full name); Erlanger, Raphael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Frankfurt politician and banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wetzlar |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1878 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |