Carl Fürstenberg

Carl Fürstenberg (August 28, 1850 – February 9, 1933) was one of the most prominent German bankers of the late nineteenth and early twenteeth century, and was responsible for the revival of the German mining industry during his era. [cite book
last=Achterberg
first=Erich
title=Berliner Hochfinanz. Kaiser, Fürsten, Millionäre um 1900
publisher=Knapp Fritz GmbH
location=Frankfurt
year=1965
isbn=3781900002]

Fürstenberg was born to Jewish parents in Danzig (Gdańsk). While working at a West Prussian textile mill throughout his childhood, he apprenticed under local banker R. Damme. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Berlin.

At first, Fürstenberg worked for the textile company of Gebr. Simon (Simon Bros.). Two years later, he became an employee at the Disconto-Gesellschaft, one of the leading German joint-stock banks. In 1871, he defected to aristocrat Gerson von Bleichröder's well-known S. Bleichröder Bank, working in the firm as a departemental manager. In 1883, he became first director of the joint-stock bank Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft (B. G.-H.) and dominated it during the next decades in a way, that the bank was often regarded as "Fürstenberg's bank". In 1884 has was accepted into the Gesellschaft der Freunde society. Under Fürstenberg, the B. G.-H. became the house bank of Emil Rathenau's AEG. 1902, Fürstenberg made Emil Rathenau's son, Walther Rathenau a co-director of the B. G.-H. which he remained until 1907.

References

* Fürstenberg, Carl: Die Lebensgeschichte eines deutschen Bankiers 1870-1914, ed. by Hans Fürstenberg; Berlin: Ullstein 1931.
*cite journal
last=Morrow
first=Ian F.D.
year=1931
month=November
title=Front Wider Bulow: Staatsmanner, Diplomaten und Forscher zu seinen Denkwurdigkeiten Kaiser und Kabinettschef: Nach eigenen Aufzeichnungen und dem Briefwechsel des Wirklichen Geheimen Rats Rudolf von Valentini. Denkwurdigkeiten der Reichskanzlerzeit
journal=International Affairs
volume=10
issue=6
pages=834–837
publisher=Royal Institute of International Affairs
doi=10.2307/3015859