Rudolph Oppenheim
Rudolph Oppenheim (born July 2, 1811 in Königsberg , † June 4, 1871 in Preußisch Arnau , East Prussia ) was a German banker and consul of the Kingdom of Belgium.
Life
Rudolph Oppenheim was the eldest son of the banker Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim , who had the Palais Oppenheim and the Villa Rosa built in Dresden , and Rosa, nee. Alexander (1792-1849).
At Michaelmas 1830 Oppenheim passed his Abitur at the old town high school in Königsberg. He then studied architecture in Berlin, underwent commercial training in Magdeburg and, after stays abroad in England, Scotland and Paris, joined the family bank Oppenheim & Warschauer in Königsberg in 1839 as a partner . In April 1840, the Kingdom of Belgium appointed him consul in the East Prussian capital.
At the end of 1868, the partners of Oppenheim & Warschauer parted ways. The previous subsidiary in Berlin, Robert Warschauer & Co., became independent. Rudolph Oppenheim decided to set up a new bank under the name R. Oppenheim & Sohn in Königsberg with his son Benoit , but moved the company's headquarters to Berlin about a year later, probably because of better business prospects. The Rudolph Oppenheim family lived there at Leipziger Platz 9 on the first floor. Brother Otto Georg Oppenheim lived on the 2nd floor of the house . In 1871, Rudolph Oppenheim, suffering from cancer, died on the Preussisch Arnau family estate near Königsberg. He was buried in Berlin at Friedhof II on Liesenstrasse . The R. Oppenheim & Sohn banking house was continued by Benoit Oppenheim until 1890.
Rudolph Oppenheim and his wife Dorothea, b. Heimann ( Wilna April 15, 1818 - Berlin November 29, 1882), had three daughters and one son:
- Martha Helena Dorothea Oppenheim (1841–1912) married Raimund Behrend , who ran an estate in Arnau in the Königsberg district ;
- Marie Oppenheim (1844–1932), also called Rie, married the doctor Ernst von Leyden in 1868 ;
- Benoit Oppenheim (1842–1931) married Luise Lina, daughter of Ernst von Saucken-Tarputschen ;
- Anna Rosa Oppenheim (1849–1931) married her cousin, the banker Hugo Oppenheim (1847–1921) , in September 1871 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New German Biography (NDB).
- ↑ Heinrich Babucke: To commemorate the move of Altstädtischer Gymnasium in Konigsberg in Pr. Hartungsche letterpress, 1889.
- ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Königsberg, Volume 30, from Königsberg (administrative district) accessed June 28, 2015.
- ↑ Oppenheim D [orothea .] In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1872, part 1, p. 559. “geb. Heimann, Consul widow, Leipziger Platz 9 ”.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oppenheim, Rudolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oppenheim, Rudolf; Oppenheim, Rudolph Alexander Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant, banker and consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1871 |
| Place of death | Arnau |