Samuel Bleichröder

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Samuel Bleichröder (born July 15, 1779 in Wriezen , † December 30, 1855 in Berlin ) was a German-Jewish banker and founder of the S. Bleichröder bank .

The family came from Bleicherode am Harz. Samuels' father was a manufacturer of shoe buckles from 1773 and became an army supplier. In 1793 this court became the perfumer of the Prussian queen. Samuel Bleichröder opened an exchange and lottery shop in Berlin in 1803 , and in 1809 he joined the Society of Friends . The Bleichrödersche company gained in importance when Samuel Bleichröder took over the representation of the Rothschilds in Berlin in 1828 . From 1847, Bleichröder was involved in almost all German Rothschild bonds . Numerous Cologne banks did business with Bleichröder. As Rothschild’s agent, he came into contact with the Prussian royal family. In 1842 he raised the funds for the Prussian king's trip to England. Bleichröder was from 1845 banker of the Rheinische and the Cologne-Mindener railroad .

In 1815 Samuel Bleichröder married Johanna Aron († 1847). Her children included Gerson von Bleichröder , who took over the father's company, and Julius Bleichröder (1828–1907), who founded his own banking business.

Samuel Bleichröder died in Berlin in 1855 at the age of 76. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee . The grave is preserved.

literature

  • Wilhelm Treue : Private Banking in the 19th Century. In: Helmut Coing , Walter Wilhelm (ed.): Science and codification of private law in the 19th century. Volume 5: Money and Banks (= Studies on Law of the Nineteenth Century. 5). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-465-01333-6 , p. 94–127, here p. 112 f.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 350.