Robert Oppenheim
Hugo Rudolf Otto Robert Oppenheim (born July 9, 1882 in Charlottenburg , † August 25, 1956 in North Conway , New Hampshire , USA) was a German private banker .
Life
Robert Oppenheim was born as the youngest of six children and the second son of the banker Hugo Oppenheim and Anna Oppenheim (1849–1931), daughter of the banker Rudolph Oppenheim . His father was initially a partner in the private bank Robert Warschauer & Co. After it was taken over by the Darmstädter Bank für Handel und Industrie and a contractually agreed break of seven years, Hugo Oppenheim founded the banking house Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn in 1912 with himself and his son as partners. The bank was based in Berlin-Mitte , Unter den Linden 78, and moved to the Pariser Platz 1 building in 1919. After his father's death in 1921, Robert Oppenheim continued to run the bank with other partners. However, it got into difficulties during the banking crisis of 1931 and had to go into liquidation in 1932. The survivable parts of the banking business were sold to the von Mendelssohn Bartholdy family and continued under the new company Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn Nachf. In the years that followed, Robert Oppenheim lived on the rest of his inherited private fortune and was forced to gradually sell his art collection.
Robert Oppenheim emigrated to the USA in the spring of 1940 with his third wife and their two children, where he changed his family name to "Opton". Then settled on Kearsarge Street in North Conway, where the Optons ran a small inn called "The Gables".
Private life
In 1913 Robert Oppenheim married Charlotte Simon (1894–1969), a daughter of the textile merchant Eduard Simon . In 1917 the son Hugo Oppenheim, later Opton (1917–1989), was born. The marriage was divorced in 1921. Shortly thereafter, Oppenheim married Marie Pinner (1891–1979), who came from a medical family in Frankfurt / Main, with whom he had the son Alexander Oppenheim, later Oldham (1925–2010). This marriage also ended in divorce, and in 1931 Oppenheim married Ehrentraut Petersen, b. von Ilberg (1901–1962). She gave birth to the twins Imogene and Roberta Oppenheim, later Opton (born April 25, 1932).
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Oppenheim & Sohn, private bank, registered 1912, liq .: 1935, Pariser Platz 1 (center) , Jewish commercial enterprises in Berlin 1930–1945, accessed July 18, 2016.
- ↑ Christmas 1940 in North Conway (English): With illustration by Imogen Opton, fifth place in Slalom, 1952 Winter Olympic Games (English) , on newenglandskimuseum.org, accessed on July 18, 2016
- ↑ Imogene Opton in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on July 18, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oppenheim, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oppenheim, Bob; Oppenheim, Robert Hugo Rudolf Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German private banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1956 |
| Place of death | North Conway |