Ludwig von Stieglitz

Ludwig Stieglitz, 1826 Baron Ludwig Stieglitz (Russian Людвиг Штиглиц, born December 24, 1779 Arolsen, .. † 6 Märzjul / March 18 1843greg in Saint Petersburg ), was a Russian entrepreneur and banker of German-Jewish origin. He founded the banking house of Stieglitz & Co..

Life

Ludwig Stieglitz was the youngest of three sons of the Waldecker protected Jews Hirsch Bernhard Stieglitz and his wife Precious Elizabeth, born Marcus. His brother was the physician Johann Stieglitz. The poet Heinrich Stieglitz was his nephew. As a young man Stieglitz moved to Russia as a representative of the family business. Both through trade and to an increasing extent by banking he came to great wealth and influence, and was appointed by Tsar Alexander I to the court banker and raised to the peerage in 1826.

Even under Alexander's successor Tsar Nicholas I. Stieglitz worked as a court banker, but was also an entrepreneur. He invested among others in the construction of the steamship line between Lübeck and St. Petersburg in 1829 and in the acquisition of an insolvent textile factory in Narva, which thereby in the following decades under its new director Napoléon Peltzer became one of the most renowned textile mills of Russia. In Kurland he bought the estate United eaters ( Latvian Ezere ). Thus it was from 1840, part of the Baltic nobility.

Family

Ludwig Stieglitz married Angelica Amalie Christiane Gottschalk ( born July 26, 1777 Hannover, † February 20, 1838 in St. Petersburg), which makes it the brother of the banker Martin Joseph Haller in Hamburg; their descendants the hereditary Russian nobility was operated by a decree of the Senate on April 3, 1863. The son Alexander took over the bank, which he liquidated in 1863, and became the first president of the State Bank was founded in 1860 the Russian Empire. The daughter Nathalie ( born October 17, 1803 in St.Petersburg, May 17, 1882 in Frankfurt am Main ) married 1824 Johann David Harder.