Anselm von Rothschild

Anselm Salomon Freiherr von Rothschild ( born January 29, 1803 in Frankfurt am Main, † July 27, 1874 in Vienna) is the founder of the Austrian Creditanstalt for trade and commerce.

Family

Anselm Salomon Rothschild was the son of Salomon Meyer Freiherr von Rothschild (1774-1855), the founder of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild banking family, and his wife Caroline Stern ( 1782-1849 ). He was with Charlotte von Rothschild (1807-1859), the eldest daughter of a London banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1830), the younger brother of his father, married, while his sister Betty (1805-1874) Parisian banker James de Rothschild married.

Children

Anselm Salomon and Charlotte had eight children, four daughters and four sons. The leadership of the banking house in Vienna took over after the death of his youngest son, Anselm Salomon Albert.

Activity

From the Creditanstalt, for which he had applied the majority of the capital stock itself, Rothschild moved from 1859 gradually and increasingly devoted himself to the Southern Railway Company. For the War of 1866 Rothschild, who had studied in Berlin, announced neither Austria nor Prussia credit because he was an unconditional supporter of peace between the two rival monarchies.

As a philanthropist, he founded in 1869 in Vienna, the Rothschild Hospital and donated et al testamentary 1.2 million guilders to the Vienna Jewish community. As an art collector, he created the basis for the famous Austrian Rothschild art collection.

The highest award of the city of Vienna, a freeman, he got in 1847, after in 1843 his father had been so honored; In 1861 he was called to the mansion of the Imperial Council of Emperor Franz Joseph I..