- Gerson von Bleichröder
Gerson von Bleichröder (
December 22 ,1822 —February 18 ,1893 ) was aJew ish Germanbanker .Bleichröder was born in
Berlin . He was the eldest son of Samuel Bleichröder, who founded the Bleichröder Bank in 1803 in Berlin. The bank maintained close contacts with theRothschild family ; the banking house of Bleichröder acted as a branch office in Berlin of the Rothschilds' bank.Bleichröder was concerned with the private banking transactions of
Otto von Bismarck and with the transfer of credits and/or placing of loans on behalf of thePrussia n state and theGerman Empire . He was also a partner at the investment bank ofLadenburg Thalmann . Bleichröder and his family were made Prussian nobles on8 March ,1872 , inBerlin . Bleichröder was only the second Jew in Prussia to be enobled. Bleichröder was preceded only byAbraham Oppenheim , another banker close to the regime, enobled four years earlier.The German-American historian
Fritz Stern wrote a double-biography of Otto von Bismarck and Gerson von Bleichröder, "Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire" [ISBN 0394740343] .External links
* [http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=11851167X Literature on an about Gerson Bleichröder in the catalog of the DDB]
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1130&letter=B Jewish Encyclopedia]
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