Sigmund Meyer (banker)

Sigmund Meyer (born February 6, 1840 in Hanover ; died July 14, 1911 there ) was a German banker .

Life

family

Sigmund Meyer was the son of the banker Adolph Meyer and the grandson of the banker Simon Meyer from a Jewish family.

Career

In 1866, Sigmund Meyer became head of the Adolph Meyer bank, which had already been managed by his grandfather and renamed by his father .

In 1870 Meyer was appointed to the Prussian Kommerzienrat . He was "one of the first to take on the young potash industry in the province of Hanover [...]": Meyer was elected chairman of the supervisory board of the Sigmundshall potash plant named after him . He founded the Wunstorfer Portland-Cementwerke AG located near Wunstorf . Meyer also founded the share sugar factory Linden , which later became the share sugar factory Neuwerk , as well as the Aerzen machine factory .

Meyer played a decisive role in the establishment of the Hoyermann GmbH phosphate factory near Hanover and Nienburg / Weser .

Sigmund Meyer was particularly involved within the Jewish community in Hanover in the “Association for the Promotion of Crafts ”.

His grave can be found in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede .

literature

• Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Bankhaus Adolph Meyer. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , Leipzig: Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, 1927, p. 152
• Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), pp. 179-182
• Rainer Slotta: Technical Monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 3 (incorrectly referred to as "Volume 17"): The Potash and Rock Salt Industry , in the series of publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum , No. 18, ed. from the German Mining Museum, Bochum: 1980, ISBN 3-921533-16-3 , p. 276
• Peter Schulze : MEYER, (11) Sigmund. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 254.
• Peter Schulze: Meyer, (11) Sigmund. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 441.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Schulze; MEYER, (11) ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Schulze: Meyer, (1) Adolph. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 440
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Bankhaus Adolph Meyer (see literature)
4. ↑ Peter Schulze: Meyer, (11) Sigmund (see literature)