Siegmund Geisenheimer
Siegmund Geisenheimer (born December 12, 1775 in Bingen am Rhein ; † April 20, 1828 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a businessman and socially committed authorized officer of the Frankfurt banking house MA Rothschild & Sons .
Life
Siegmund Geisenheimer was born on December 12, 1775 as the son of Wolf Geisenheimer and May. Guttel (Isaac) was born in Bingen. Raphael Geisenheimerwas his brother. He married Fanny Kulp geb. Wetzlar (1769-1828). In addition to their two daughters, the couple raised the three children from Fanny Geisenheimer's first marriage to Moses Kulp. He died on April 20, 1828 in Frankfurt am Main and was buried in the Jewish cemetery on Battonnstrasse. Siegmund Geisenheimer, who came from a modest background, showed talent and ambition as a child. When he came to Frankfurt in 1795, the trained businessman already spoke several languages. In the banking house MA Rothschild & Sons, he was promoted to chief accountant and authorized signatory due to his ability. In 1809 he took over his wife Fanny's cloth and textile business in what was then Steingasse.
social commitment
Siegmund Geisenheimer combined his professional activity with social and educational reforms within the Frankfurt Israelite community. As a member of the hospital administration, he took over the reorganization of the Israelite men's health insurance fund at the turn of the century. He promoted talented students who, like himself, came from poorer backgrounds. His best-known initiative was the Frankfurt Jewish Philanthropin School , which he founded with like-minded friends in 1804 with the support of Mayer Amschel Rothschild . In 1807 Siegmund Geisenheimer was one of the most active co-founders of the Lodge for the Rising Dawn in Frankfurt am Main . The box emerged from a reading society . Jewish reformers influenced by the Enlightenment gathered in this Jewish Masonic lodge . It was founded mainly because non-Jewish Masonic lodges in Frankfurt did not accept Jews at the time.
According to a document dated May 17, 1826, Siegmund Geisenheimer, an administrative specialist who worked for the Rothschild family and in the hospital sector, united the older and new men's health insurance funds to form the "Israelitische Männerkrankenkasse" and organized the amalgamation of the Israelite men's health insurance fund and the Israelite women's fund under one roof; both funds remained independent institutions. He won over the Rothschild family for the project, who had a semi-detached house built for the newly built Israelitische Krankenkasse hospital. In the year before his death, Siegmund Geisenheimer himself laid the foundation stone.
literature
- Hermann Baerwald and Salo Adler: History of the Realschule of the Israelite community (philanthropist) in Frankfurt am Main 1804-1904 = supplement to the program of the school. Easter 1904.
- Research project Jewish Nursing History. Biographies and institutions in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jewish nursing history .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geisenheimer, Siegmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bingen am Rhein |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1828 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |