Simon von Lämel

Simon Lamel, 1811 Edler von Lamel, also Lämmel ( born August 28, 1766 Tuschkau, Bohemia, † April 18, 1845 in Vienna ) was an Austrian wholesalers and banker.

Life

After the early death of his father he became a merchant in Kolin and founded in 1787 in Prague, first as a general store, a large trading and banking business, which was important for the sheep wool industry in Bohemia. During the Napoleonic Wars he granted the Austrian State extensive loans.

In recognition of his performance, he requested ( on May 1, 1801? ) To be able to buy a house in Vienna, which the emperor but refused on 17 March 1811. However, he was raised on December 5, 1811 " for the carriage of Commerzes " in the hereditary peerage as Edler von Lamel and was allowed to live with his children in Vienna. 1813 he was appointed Field Marshal Prince Schwarzenberg to Army Commissioner and released him from the Einquartierungspflicht.

In May 1812, he learned in the spa town of Karlovy Vary Johann Wolfgang von Goethe know.

Lamel set up for the betterment of the Jews, including 1813 for the abolition of the customs body in Saxony and in 1817 for the reduction of the Bohemian Jews control. In 1826 he founded cult equipment for the inauguration of these Viennese City Temple. A few years before his death, he tried to abolish the medieval Jew envy.

His daughter, Elise Heart, founded in 1856 in his honor in Jerusalem, founded by Ludwig August Frankl Lämelschule. The strictly Orthodox community in Jerusalem protested unsuccessfully against the new institute, to be held in which not only religious but also secular education. His son and heir of the wholesale house was Leopold von Lamel.