Robert Warschauer senior

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Robert Wilhelm Adolphe Warschauer (born September 2, 1816 in Königsberg ; † November 2, 1884 in Berlin ) was a German banker and founder of the banking house Robert Warschauer & Co.

Life

His father was Marcus Warschauer (1765-1835), a merchant and banker from Breslau, who had married into the banking family Oppenheim in Königsberg and from whom the bank Oppenheim & Warschauer had been in charge since 1805. His mother Rebecca (* 1784) was the sister of the banker Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim and daughter of the banker Wolff Oppenheim (1753-1828). Robert Warschauer and his siblings were baptized, while the father himself remained in Judaism .

Robert Warschauer was a manager at the Oppenheim & Warschauer bank from 1839 to 1849 and was a member of the municipal authorities in Königsberg before he married into the Mendelssohn banking family in Berlin. In 1840 he married Marie Josephine (1822–1891), the eldest daughter of the Berlin banker Alexander Mendelssohn .

In 1848 Robert Warschauer moved to Berlin and in 1849, together with Eduard Veit (1824–1901), founded the banking house Robert Warschauer & Co. , as a branch of the Königsberg banking house Oppenheim & Warschauer . Another co-owner was the banker Carl Schwartz, owner of the Schwartz villa in Berlin-Steglitz . The bank was initially located on Charlottenstrasse, then in 1856 moved to a larger house at 48 Behrenstrasse , which Robert Warschauer had bought. In 1868 he separated from the parent company in Königsberg. His cousin and previous partner Rudolph Oppenheim then founded the R. Oppenheim & Sohn banking house , which soon also moved to Berlin.

The first floor of the two-story house at Behrenstrasse 48, which was built around 1800 and demolished in 1909, housed the business premises; the upper floor was used by the Robert Warsawers family, and later also that of his son Robert Warschauer junior as a private apartment.

In 1850 the bank Robert Warschauer & Co. joined the Berliner Kassenverein , in 1856 it was involved in the establishment of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft . From 1856 to 1865 Robert Warschauer was involved in the elders' college of the Berlin merchants and, as a private banker, was careful not to mention the amount of his equity . He was also a member of the Society of Friends , the cultural center of the Jewish community and at that time the most important association of Berlin Jewry.

In connection with the rise of Berlin to a banking and stock exchange center, the Robert Warschauer & Co. bank soon developed into one of the most renowned and financially strong banks in Prussia and Robert Warschauer & Co. expanded through loans for industrialization , railway construction and government bonds , especially in Russia .

Around 1870, Warsaw residents built a villa designed by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden in Charlottenburg at the bend of the then Berliner Straße 31/32, not far from today's Ernst-Reuter-Platz . He had owned the property since the 1840s. Initially there was only a small house there, the so-called "Biedermeier House", later also used as a guest house, which, like the later villa, was usually inhabited by the family in summer. During the winter, the Warsaw residents lived in their Berlin domicile on Behrenstrasse. The Charlottenburger Sommerfrische consisted of the main house, the villa on the knee and a park in which there was a covered bowling alley, a tennis court, greenhouses, the Biedermeier guest house and a garden hall. From 1871, the painter Rudolf Henneberg produced seven murals for the new villa with historicizing motifs, depicting patriotic scenarios using family physiognomies. In the 5th edition of Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon (1895), the cycle of images was suggested as being inspired by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and recognized as patriotic. These murals were recently found in a later Warsaw family home in Grunewald .

The patriotic family Robert Warschauer was around the turn of the 20th century, the largest taxpayers of the city of Charlottenburg , which was at times the Prussian city with the highest tax revenues per capita.

In 1878 Robert Warschauer suffered a stroke and from then on could no longer perform the management function in his bank. In 1882, his son joined the bank as a partner.

Robert Warschauer senior died in Berlin in 1884 at the age of 68. He was buried in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The hereditary burial was on the north side of the cemetery and was destroyed in the 1960s when Blücherstraße was extended over this part of the cemetery to Mehringdamm .

progeny

Grave of Marie (1855–1906) and Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1846–1909) at the Börnicke village church

literature

  • Laura Herr: Work is a citizen's adornment. The private banking house Robert Warschauer & Co. Publications of the Eugen Gutmann Society, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9812511-6-6 .
  • Hanns Weber: Bankplatz Berlin, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1957, ISBN 3663004260 .
  • Arnold Körte: Martin Gropius. Life and work of a Berlin architect 1824 - 1880. Lukas Vlg f. Art and Intellectual history, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 3867320802 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Kaelble : Berlin entrepreneur during the early industrialization. de Gruyter, Berlin, 1972, ISBN 3-11-003873-0 , p. 28.
  2. ↑ Eduard Hermann Veit was first a co-founder and executive employee, from 1869 partner, 1876 councilor of commerce and in 1883 he was appointed secret councilor of commerce .
  3. ↑ Communications of the Association for the History of Berlin , Issue 1, January 1992. Herbert May: Robert Warschauer (1860-1918), a Berlin private banker, p. 107f.
  4. ^ Gerhild Komander : Berlins first telephone book 1881. Berlin Story, 2006, ISBN 3929829339 , p. 92.
  5. ^ Sebastian Panwitz: The Society of Friends (1792-1935). Berlin Jews between Enlightenment and high finance. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2007, ISBN 978-3-487-13346-1 .
  6. ↑ Tagesspiegel, Thomas Lack Rann: The noise of a vanished time . , accessed June 29, 2015.
  7. ↑ Thomas Lackmann and Ernst Siegel: Wedding with war damage.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 29, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturstiftung.de  
  8. ^ Stephan Brandt: The Charlottenburg old town. Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-861-4 . P. 8.
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Warsaw, Robert senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warschauer, Robert Wilhelm Adolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1884
Place of death Berlin