Siegmund Sulzbach

Siegmund Sulzbach (born June 9, 1813 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 6, 1876 ​​there ) was a German-Swiss merchant , banker and patron .

Life

Siegmund Sulzbach was born as the eldest son of Abraham Sulzbach and his wife Sara Beyfuss in Frankfurt am Main in 1813. After finishing school, Siegmund did an apprenticeship at the Frankfurt cloth merchant CM Rapp and then worked for this company as a clerk for five years. In 1834 Siegmund was given citizenship of the Free City of Frankfurt upon application . In 1838 Siegmund Rapp moved to his father, who published a daily price sheet on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange . On April 5, 1856, Siegmund Sulzbach and his younger brother Rudolf Sulzbach founded the private bank S. Sulzbach in Frankfurt am Main. In the decades that followed, the bank became one of the most influential banking houses and was particularly committed to the new industries ( electrical engineering , chemicals ) and transport at home and abroad . After Prussia occupied Frankfurt in 1866, Siegmund Sulzbach applied for citizenship in Thun in Switzerland for himself and his family , which he also received. After the death of Abraham Sulzbach, the bank was renamed Bankhaus Gebrüder Sulzbach in 1866 and successfully continued.

Siegmund Sulzbach died in Frankfurt am Main in 1876 at the age of 63. In 1852 Siegmund Sulzbach married Henriette Ochs. The son Moritz Sigismund Sulzbach (* 1857) emerged from the marriage. Moritz Sulzbach went to Paris in 1881 and also founded a bank there.

literature

• Franz Lerner: Existence in change demonstrated by the hundred-year history of the Frankfurt private bank Heinrich Kirchholtes & Co. vorm. Sulzbach brothers 1856–1956. Frankfurt am Main 1956.
• Hans-Dietrich Kirchholtes: Jewish private banks in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt 1969, pp. 29-32.