Emil Rathenau

Emil Rathenau

Infobox Person
name = Emil Rathenau


image_size =
caption = Dr. Emil M. Rathenau, 1883
birth_date = December 11, 1838
birth_place = Berlin, Germany
death_date = June 20, 1915
death_place =
occupation = Entrepreneur
spouse = Mathilde Nachmann
parents = Moritz Rathenau
children = Walther Rathenau Erich Rathenau

Emil Moritz Rathenau (December 11 1838 – June 20 1915) was a German entrepreneur and industrialist, a leading figure in the early European electrical industry.

Biography

Rathenau was born in Berlin, into a wealthy Jewish merchant family based in that city. He was the son of Moritz Rathenau.

In 1865, Rathenau was a partner in a factory, during which time (while traveling abroad) he recognized the possibilities of the then newly emerging electrical technology. In 1881, with the help of a bank group, he acquired the rights to manufacture products based on the patents of Thomas Alva Edison. In 1883 he formed the "German Edison Society for Applied Electricity" ("Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität"), which in 1887 formed into "Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft" (or AEG).

In 1903, Rathenau was appointed general manager of AEG. Together with his competitor and business partner Werner von Siemens, they formed the "Telefunken Gesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie mbH". Rathenau held numerous positions on the supervisory board of "Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft und der Elektrizitäts AG vorm. W. Lahmeyer & Co."

Rathenau was married in 1866 to Mathilde Nachmann, daughter of a Frankfurt banker. One of his sons was the famous Walther Rathenau, a Weimar-era industrialist, politician, and progressive economist. Walther was assassinated in June 1922 by gangsters of the extreme right-wing. He had another son named Erich Rathenau.

References

*cite book|last=Pohl|first=Manfred|title=Emil Rathenau and the AEG|location=Mainz|publisher=Hase & Koehler|year=1988|id=ISBN 3-7758-1190-7
*cite book|last=Dahlem|first=Markus|title=Case studies to the relationship of banks and large-scale enterprise in the German empire, 1871-1914


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