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German Jewish banker and politician
Mayer Carl
Freiherr
von Rothschild
(5 August 1820 ? 16 October 1886) was a
German Jewish
banker and politician, as well as scion of the
Rothschild family
.
[2]
Early life
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Born in
Frankfurt
on 5 August 1820. He was a son of Adelheid (
nee
Herz) and
Carl Mayer von Rothschild
.
[3]
Among his siblings were
Charlotte
(wife of
Lionel de Rothschild
),
Adolphe Carl
[
fr
]
,
Wilhelm Carl
(1828?1901), and Anselm Alexander Carl, who died young.
[4]
He studied law at the
University of Gottingen
and the
University of Berlin
.
[5]
Career
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After studying law, he joined the family banking firm
M. A. Rothschild & Sohne
in Frankfurt. Following the death of their uncle
Amschel Mayer Rothschild
, Mayer Carl and his brother
Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild
became heads of the firm.
[6]
In 1854, the firm was made Banker to the
Court of Prussia
. He was appointed the
Duchy of Parma
consulship in Frankfurt,
Consul
of
Bavaria
and Austrian
Consul-General
and, in 1866, he took part in a Frankfurt delegation to
Berlin
to demand a reduction in the contribution to the
war effort
, was a deputy in the
North German Diet
, a member of the
German Reichstag
and took a seat on the
Frankfurt city parliament
.
[5]
In 1871, Rothschild became the first Jewish member of the
House of Lords of Prussia
.
[5]
Personal life
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On 6 April 1842, Rothschild married his cousin
Louise von Rothschild
[
de
]
at the
London synagogue
in Duke's Place.
[4]
Together, the couple had seven daughters:
[7]
[4]
- Adele von Rothschild
[
de
]
(1843?1922), married to
Salomon James de Rothschild
(1835?1864) in 1862.
- Emma Louise von Rothschild
(1844?1935), married to
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
(1840?1915) in 1867.
- Clementine Henriette von Rothschild (1845?1865)
- Therese von Rothschild (1847?1931), married to
James Edouard de Rothschild
(1844?1881) in 1871.
- Hannah Luise von Rothschild
[
de
]
(1850?1892).
- Marguerite de Rothschild
[
fr
]
(1855?1905), married to
Antoine Alfred Agenor de Gramont, 11th Duke of Gramont
[
fr
]
(1851?1925), a son of
Agenor, 10th Duke of Gramont
, in 1878.
[8]
- Bertha Clara von Rothschild
(1862?1903), married to
Louis Philippe Marie Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram
(1836?1911), a son of
Napoleon Alexandre Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram
, in 1882.
[9]
Rothschild died on 16 October 1886.
[5]
References
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- ^
"Mayer Karl, Freiherr von Rothschild : Genealogics"
.
- ^
Hoffmann, Hilmar
(2004).
Die großen Frankfurter: Ehrwurdige Burger und Ehrenburger
(in German). Frankfurt am Main: Societats-Verlag. pp. 65?68.
ISBN
978-3-7973-0928-0
.
- ^
Nasar, Sylvia (23 January 2000).
"Masters of the Universe"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
1 September
2020
.
- ^
a
b
c
Baader, Benjamin Maria (2006).
Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870
.
Indiana University Press
. p. 195.
ISBN
978-0-253-34734-3
. Retrieved
1 September
2020
.
- ^
a
b
c
d
"Mayer Carl (Charles) von Rothschild (1820-1886)"
.
family.rothschildarchive.org
.
Rothschild Family
. Retrieved
1 September
2020
.
- ^
Ferguson, Niall (1999).
The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
. Penguin.
ISBN
978-1-101-15730-5
. Retrieved
1 September
2020
.
- ^
Weintraub, Stanley (2003).
Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story
.
Simon and Schuster
.
ISBN
978-0-7432-2686-8
. Retrieved
1 September
2020
.
- ^
"Duchesse de Gramont Dead"
.
The New York Times
. 26 July 1905
. Retrieved
29 June
2020
.
- ^
August 2018: Portrait of a ‘Princess’: Bertha Clara von Rothschild by Ellis William Roberts, 1890
,
The Rothschild Archive
(accessed 4 August 2020)
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