Johann Philipp Bethmann

Johann Philipp Bethmann ( born November 30, 1715 in Nassau, † November 27, 1793 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German businessman and banker.

Life and work

Bethmann was the eldest son of the Nassau bailiff Simon Moritz von Bethmann ( 1687-1725 ). When he died, his widow Elizabeth nee returned Thielen (1680-1757) back to Frankfurt and was a housekeeper in the family of her brother, the merchant Jakob Adami ( 1670-1745 ). After his death he bequeathed to his nephew, half of his fortune. Johann Philipp and his youngest brother Simon Moritz acquired the Frankfurt civil rights and took over the trading business Jakob Adami, from the 1748 Bankhaus Bethmann Brothers, later Bethmann Bank arose. The second brother Johann Jakob founded a trading post in Bordeaux.

Bankhaus Bethmann developed in a short time become one of the leading hotels in Germany, especially by trading government bonds, which could be compared only with the event later House of Rothschild.

1762 Johann Philipp Bethmann joined married Katherine Margaret Schaaf ( 1741-1822 ), the daughter of Frankfurt aldermen and the Imperial Council Anton Schaaf. The couple had six children, four of whom survived:

After his death in 1793 led his only son Simon Moritz the house.

Johann Philipp Bethmann acquired in 1783 a small, 1760 -built garden shed before Friedberger Tor, which he had already been leased since 1773, had it converted to a spacious villa and enlarged the garden through purchases of adjoining properties. The house was used for the family from 1785 as a summer home. 1813 was the Quartier des to the retreating Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1855, the villa was the main residence of the Bethmann. A museum was added in 1856. End of the Second World War burned from the main house of Villa Bethmann, a part of the east wing was rebuilt, the other areas of the family property belonging to Bethmannpark. The museum purchased in 1941 with a part of the park of the city of Frankfurt am Main, gave way to the construction of the Friedberger Landstraße.

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