Aron Elias Seligmann
Aron Elias Seligmann ( born April 26, 1747 in glues, † January 11, 1824 in Munich) was a Jewish court factor. He was later baptized a Christian and was raised in 1814 as Baron von Eichthal in the Bavarian nobility.
Life
In the 18th century the court factors were the financiers of the princes and their splendor-loving courtyards. A mercantile business attitude dominated the government policy of the royal courts. One of the biggest financiers German princely courts counted Aron Elias Seligmann, where the ascent from the Palatine court factor under Carl Theodor succeeded to the Bavarian Oberhof factor and Bavarian royal banker. In 1799, the successor of Carl Theodor Elector Maximilian Joseph was obliged to summon the court factor Aron Elias Seligmann to Munich in order to " bring immediate economy in all branches of state administration ."
On June 16, 1799 Maximilian Joseph stated publicly in a Rescript that he was " the Bavarian Finance in great disorder, emptied all government coffers and the same, moreover, even with prohibitive residues charged 've encountered. " In the Bavarian government circles remembered the bustling Jewish Leimener financier Aron Elias Seligmann. He is granted already on June 28, 1799 " and to bring all of whose children, both sons, the daughter males the perfect civil rights along with the power that they everywhere in Churpfalz settle down, lying goods per se, and indeed all business that otherwise a Christian sub Than only to take befähiget, ought to be, entitled to drive after their gutfinden and also authorized. " So that the condition was created, that the court factor in Munich had the right of citizenship. A parade of glues to Munich now nothing stood in the way. Seligmann saved the Bavarian State from ruin and got another lender. Also, the Rhine Palatinate Hausschatz including court and church silver was handed over to him in 1799 for sale and for Vermünzung. He managed to mitigate Bavaria financial problems and stabilize the government. He was therefore collected by the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph on September 22, 1814 to the peerage for Baron von Eichthal. This was associated with the presentation of the emblem of the extinct family of Thalmann in Augsburg and the ennoblement of his ten children.
Family
From the marriage of Aron Elias Seligmann with the Hindele Levi, who comes from a known Sigmaringer family court agents, emerged five daughters and five sons. Caroline (1767-1836), Friederike Marie (1771.1856), Fanny (1774-1854), David (1775-1850), Bernhard Aron (1784-1830), Louis Aron (1786-1840), Simon Aron (1787-1854), Rebeka Caroline (1788-1836) and Rachel (1790-1861, later Julia Sophia of Eichthal ).
The eldest daughter Chaila ( Caroline ) married in 1785 the Mannheim court factor Ignatz Mayer. Friederike married the Hanoverian court agents Philipp Salomon David, after conversion they take the family name of Philip. The latest Rachel celebrated on August 22, 1815 with great pomp in sizing the wedding and married the imperial court factor Leopold of Lamel, Director of the Austrian National Bank in Prague and a member of the Bohemian Landtag. The sons of Seligmann's also married daughters of known court agents and thus paved the way for the settlement of financial transactions throughout the empire. Among them stand out especially two that show the entrepreneurial spirit of the Father. The elder son, David, and the youngest son Simon ( Aron ), which saw the light of day in glues on 11 August 1787.
The youngest son led the banking house founded by his father in Munich from Eichthal Theatinerstraße continue after his death. It was he who sold the palace in 1832 glues " with an orangery and paintings " for 9000 florins to the Karlsruhe host Peter Matthew Mueller.
The daughter Rebeka Caroline married in 1810 in Munich with her cousin Eduard Seligmann. They converted to Catholicism in 1814 and were collected in 1816 as Noble of Weling in the Bavarian nobility. The couple settled in Bamberg, where the man worked as a banker and a tobacco manufacturer.
David Baron Eichthal counted in the first half of the 19th century 's leading industrialists bathing. His brother Simon Baron Eichthal was active from the start in his father's banking house in Munich. In 1832 he took over the teaching of a government loan of 60 million francs in Greece, which earned him the title of royal Greek Council of State. He became known as an entrepreneur and co-founder of the Bavarian Mortgages and Exchange Bank. Baron Simon of Eichthal became the first director of the Bank, graduated according to the statutes in addition to credit operations and fire and food insurance. It is the first bank in Germany, which was operated in the legal reform of the corporation. With this foundation of a bank -funded repository of private funds was created in Bavaria for the first time, the favorable impact on production, trade and incipient industrialization. It became the model for a first German bank founding wave in 1848 and 1856. His son Carl von Eichthal, a grandson of Aron Elias Seligmann, co-founded the Bayerische Vereinsbank and thus does not hit from the series of Eichthal 's bankers. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank. After 1998, the Bavarian Mortgages and Exchange Bank merged with Bayerische Vereinsbank for HypoVereinsbank, one might think that the former foundation funds the Eichthal family have refocused on their original possession.