Simon Königswarter

Simon Königswarter (born June 19, 1774 in Königswart in Bohemia ; died December 15, 1854 in Fürth ) was a banker and posthumously namesake of the Simon Königswarter Foundation.

Life

Simon Königswarter was a member of the Jewish family of the Königswarter . He was with his brothers Marcus (1770–1850) and Moriz (1780–1829) and Julius Jonas Königswarter (1783–1845) one of the sons of the merchant and founder of the Fürth bank, Jonas Hirsch (1740–1805), the three "[... Family] lines in Frankfurt am Main , Vienna and Amsterdam ”.

Simon Königswarter continued the bank founded by his father in Fürth, initially together with his brothers.

He married Lisette Lämelsfeld von Lämel (born around 1778 in Prague ; died May 24, 1814 in Fürth). One of her children was Fanny Königswarter (1804–1861), who married Adolph Meyer (1807–1866), the banker who was mainly active in the royal seat of Hanover at the time of industrialization .

After his death in 1854, his son Wilhelm Karl Königswarter (1809–1887) founded the Simon Königswarter Foundation in 1855, and later the Elisabeth Königswarter Foundation.

Web links

Alain Guggenheim: Simon Königswarter as part of the author's family history on gw.geneanet.org , last accessed on May 6, 2016

Simon Königswarter on the Hohenemsgenealogie.at website of the Jewish Museum Hohenems

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Alain Guggenheim: Simon Königswarter as part of the author's family history on gw.geneanet.org , last accessed on May 6, 2016.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Editor: Königswarter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 362 ( digitized version ).
^ Kai Drewes: Table 5: Genealogy of the Königswarter family (greatly simplified) , in ders .: Jewish nobility. The ennoblement of Jews in Europe in the 19th century , at the same time dissertation 2010 at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Frankfurt am Main; New York, NY: Campus-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39775-7 and ISBN 3-593-39775-7 , p. 355; Preview over google books
↑ Peter Schulze : Meyer, (1) Adolph. 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. 252.
↑ On the benefits of Dr. Wilhelm Königswarter , scan of the original and copy from the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums of June 2, 1887; online on the Alemannia Judaica website ( working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region ).

personal data
SURNAME	Königswarter, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German banker and founder
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königswart
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1854
Place of death	Fuerth

[Alain_Guggenheim-1] Alain Guggenheim: Simon Königswarter as part of the author's family history on gw.geneanet.org , last accessed on May 6, 2016.

[Bankiersfamilie_Königswarter-2] Editor: Königswarter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 362 ( digitized version ).

[3] Kai Drewes: Table 5: Genealogy of the Königswarter family (greatly simplified) , in ders .: Jewish nobility. The ennoblement of Jews in Europe in the 19th century , at the same time dissertation 2010 at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Frankfurt am Main; New York, NY: Campus-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39775-7 and ISBN 3-593-39775-7 , p. 355; Preview over google books

[4] Peter Schulze : Meyer, (1) Adolph. 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. 252.

[5] On the benefits of Dr. Wilhelm Königswarter , scan of the original and copy from the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums of June 2, 1887; online on the Alemannia Judaica website ( working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region ).