Salomon Mayer von Rothschild

Salomon Meyer Freiherr von Rothschild ( born September 9, 1774 Frankfurt am Main, † July 28, 1855 in Paris) was an Austrian entrepreneur and banker. As the second son of the dynasty founder Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his wife Gutle Schnapper (1753-1849) Salomon became the real founder of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family.

Life and work

Salomon Rothschild was opened in 1821, a bank in Vienna, from 1855 to his son, Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, the Creditanstalt. Over time, he became a leading financier of the Habsburg Empire, which was he who guided a total of 200 million guilders to credit. State Chancellor Prince Metternich and the House of Habsburg were obliged Him thereby. Rothschild, the first in the Hotel "Zum Roman Emperor " resided since he was a Jew acquire only with a special permit for a house, was ultimately one of the largest landowners of the Danube monarchy. Rothschild also played a significant role in industrialization. He received in 1835 the concession to build the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway, built in this context (not to be dependent on British rail deliveries ) the Vítkovice works from, organized a European monopoly on mercury and prevented by a loan of 500,000 florins in 1839 the collapse of the Austrian Lloyds, on which he had already participated in its creation with an appreciable share takeover. In October of the revolutionary year of 1848 Rothschild fled to France. Although he came back in 1849 shortly after Vienna, but last lived primarily with his daughter Betty in Paris and her husband James de Rothschild, his brother.

Family

The couple Caroline Stern and Salomon Meyer Baron Rothschild had two children

• Anselm Salomon von Rothschild (1803-1874) married Charlotte von Rothschild ( 1807-1859 ). She was the first daughter of the banker Nathan Mayer in London resident of Rothschild ( 1777-1836 ). This couple had eight children.
• Betty de Rothschild (1805-1886) married in 1824, who resided in Paris banker James de Rothschild, the younger brother of Solomon.

End of the Rothschild bank in Austria

The adult from his bank Creditanstalt was valid until 1931, as a Rothschild bank. Then had to take over the majority in the wake of the CA crisis of the state. The role of the House of Rothschild in CA ended with the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938.