Viktor Alexander von Erlanger

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Viktor Alexander Freiherr von Erlanger (born June 10, 1840 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 9, 1894 in Geneva ) was a German banker from the von Erlanger family who worked in Vienna and London.

Life

He was the fourth and youngest son of Raphael Freiherr von Erlanger , the founder of the Frankfurt banking house Erlanger & Söhne . His mother Ida Maria Albert (born December 29, 1809 in Frankfurt am Main; † May 28, 1899 there) was married to Raphael Erlanger for the second time. Viktor Alexander was her second son.

After the death of his father and founder of the Frankfurt banking house Erlanger & Söhne in 1878, he took over the management of the Vienna branch of the bank from his older brother Ludwig Freiherr von Erlanger (1836–1898), since Ludwig took over the management in Frankfurt am Main .

Erlanger married Henriette von Bognar on April 6, 1861 (* December 18, 1840 in Russia ; † June 5, 1905 Hall in Tirol ). Their four children Ludwig (* 1862), Adolfine (* 1863), Ida Helene (* 1865) and Victor Raphael Matheo (* 1867) were all born in London , the business and main residence of the very successful and wealthy stepbrother Frédéric Emile Baron the Elder 'Erlanger and its banking house Erlanger Ltd. Viktor Alexander Freiherr von Erlanger was, among other things, temporarily treasurer of the German legal protection association in London .

In 1866, his brother Ludwig bought a palace from Franz Pranter in what was then Parkallee 4 (today Argentiner Straße 33) in Vienna's elegant 4th district , which is still called “ Palais Erlanger ” today . Viktor Alexander Freiherr von Erlanger and his young family also moved into this palace. On September 17, 1872, Emperor Franz Josef as King of Hungary gave him the concession to build the first railway line of the Raaberbahn or Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurti Vasút (GySEV) from Győr (in German: Raab) via Csorna , Sopron to Nach Neufeld on the Leitha .

He died in Geneva at the age of 54. He found his final resting place in Payerbach . Here a crypt chapel in the neo-renaissance style was built for him, the design of which was made in 1880 by the Vienna Ringstrasse architect Heinrich von Ferstel .

progeny

His older daughter Baroness Adolfine von Erlanger (born October 9, 1863 in London, † 1945 in Budapest ) married Count Alfred von Salm-Hoogstraeten on May 26, 1884 (born May 25, 1851 at Anholt Castle ; † June 17, 1919 in Vienna ). He was the fourth child of his parents and the younger brother of their brother-in-law.

His younger daughter Baroness Ida von Erlanger (born October 3, 1865 in London; † April 26, 1914 in Baden near Vienna ) was married to Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten (born May 9, 1848 at Anholt Castle; † 23 April 1907 in Baden near Vienna). Salm-Hoogstraeten was the third child of his parents and the older brother of their brother-in-law. This couple had the son Wilhelm Ludwig Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten (* April 22, 1887 in Klemenovo / near Moscow ; † March 5, 1972 in Geretsried), who was born in Munich on February 11, 1915 Katharina Benker (* April 6, 1891 in Munich ; † June 11, 1963 in Puchheim ) and another son Hermann Albrecht Eduard Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten (born March 12, 1888 in Klemenovo near Moscow; † March 18, 1952 in Caracas ), who on November 27, 1919 in Medgyesfalva Eleonore Countess of Bissingen and Nippenburg (born May 28, 1896 in Kecskemét , † February 15, 1978 in Brussels ) married.

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SURNAME Erlanger, Viktor Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erlanger, Viktor Alexander Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1894
Place of death Geneva