Carl Mayer von Rothschild
Kalman Mayer Rothschild ( since 1817 Carl Mayer von Rothschild, 1822: Carl Mayer Baron von Rothschild) ( born April 24, 1788 in Frankfurt am Main, † March 10, 1855 in Naples) was a German banker of the Rothschild family.
Life and work
He was the fourth son of the dynasty founder Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Like his four brothers, he received a traditional Jewish education short. The age of twelve, he joined his father's company.
For the father Rothschild kept in touch to Elector William of Hesse -Kassel upright in his exile. In 1810 he became a partner in the banking and trading house " MA Rothschild & Sons. " His residence was initially Frankfurt. However, he was commissioned by the company to numerous trips through Europe go. He was just like his brother Jacob Rothschild after 1810 involved in the gold smuggling between England and France. He played an important role since 1814 in supplying the army Wellington with funds as well as in the transfer of English money payments to the allies.
In 1818, Rothschild married Adelheid Herz ( 1800-1853 ). With this he had four sons and a daughter.
- Charlotte (1819-1884) married Lionel de Rothschild ( London)
- Carl Mayer (1820-1888)
- Adolphe Carl (1823-1900)
- Wilhelm Carl (1828-1901)
- Anselm Alexander Carl (1835-1854) - died 18 years old
Also in 1818, he represented the Rothschilds part of the Aachen Congress. In the following years he held through his travels in contact with the courts and governments in Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna and other capitals. Through his good political relations Rothschild contributed to the further advancement of the bank. In 1817 he was knighted, like his brothers, raised in 1822 in the Austrian baron.
In Naples he founded in 1820 the fifth Rothschild Bank "CM de Rothschild e figli "The bank, however, was. not independent but remained subordinate to the parent. In 1821 he traveled with the Austrian troops to southern Italy. The troops had orders to crush the liberal movement. Rothschild made in collaboration with his brother Salomon for the financing of the army.
Rothschild lived part of the year in Frankfurt and the other part in Naples. In 1818 he acquired a neo-classical mansion in the Neue Mainzer Strasse 31/33, 1837 Günthersburgpark in Bornheim, whose garden he had designed by Sebastian Rinz to an English landscape garden. Since 1829 he was Consul General of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Frankfurt. His 1841 acquired in Naples House, Villa Pignatelli was one of the most prestigious establishments in the city and attracted visitors from all over Europe.
In later years, Rothschild led from the bank of Frankfurt. His four sons were living after their training predominantly in Frankfurt. Two of them, Mayer Carl and Wilhelm Carl, took over after the death of her father and her childless uncle Amschel Mayer 1855, led by the Frankfurt headquarters. The branch in Naples led by Carl Mayer's death, his son Adolphe (1823-1900) still continues to 1863. After its closure as a result of the political unification of Italy Adolphe moved to Paris. Carl Mayers only daughter Charlotte (1818-1886) married in 1836 in London with her cousin Lionel Nathan Rothschild, a son Nathan Mayer Rothschild.
Carl Mayer von Rothschild died in Naples, but was buried in the Jewish cemetery on Rat- Beil -Straße. It is situated in a framework established by Eduard Schmidt of Launitz sarcophagus, together with his wife and youngest son Carl Alexander Anselm ( 1835-1854 ).
Honors
Since the 17th century (1660 ) Families of the Jewish faith are detected in Hemsbach. They set up in 1845 with its own synagogue ritual bath ( mikveh ). Since 1674 there is the Jewish cemetery Hemsbach, which was used as a dressing cemetery until 1940. From 1836 to 1872 there was a Jewish elementary school in Hemsbach. In 1839, Carl Mayer von Rothschild bought the former Burggut on the Hemsbacher district and then became the first honorary citizen of the community Hemsbach that is only since 1979 Hemsbach city. To the Burggut was built by the Palatine Jagdrat of Blesen on the site of the former stables of the old Hemsbacher Tiefburg in an Italian country house style in 1764 Blesen villa, the later middle wing of the second Hemsbacher castle. Around 1850, Carl Mayer von Rothschild Villa with two wings and two more bullets expand. The building, which is now called New Castle Hemsbacher so received his Tuscan, Mediterranean appearance. A large park with selected plants complemented the real estate.
In 1925, the municipality Hemsbach bought the building from the last private owner. After thorough renovation of the heavily affected by the disaster building the Rothschild castle was used as Hemsbacher City Hall since 1928. After the last orgiginalgetreuen renovation in 2009, the building now shines in new splendor.
His eldest son, Carl Mayer (1820-1888) settled in 1853, during the lifetime of his father, in his honor in Hemsbacher district Hüttenfeld build the Rennhof castle where since February 16, 1954 the Lithuanian school Hüttenfeld is operated. A year after the death of locksmith builder, the property was sold in 1889 to the Prince Löwenstein -Wertheim -Freudenberg.