Speyer family

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The Speyer family is a prominent Jewish family of German descent. It can be traced back to Michael Isaac Speyer (1644–1692), who had briefly been the head of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main in 1691–92. The family originates from Speyer in Rhineland, hence the surname.[1]

The patriarch of the family, Joseph Lazard Speyer, took over the Ellissen bank, inherited from his wife Jette Ellissen, and renamed it to J. L. Speyer-Elissen in 1818.[2] When their son, Lazard Joseph, got to the helm of family business in 1838, the name was again changed to Lazard Speyer-Ellissen, which it remained for the Frankfurt branch. From the mid-19th century on, Joseph Lazard Speyer's sons and grandsons expanded the family business worldwide, establishing Speyer Brothers in London as well as Speyer & Co. in New York City. The Frankfurt branch, Lazard Speyer-Ellissen, was liquidated in 1934, shortly after the Machtergreifung.[3] The Frankfurt family home, the prominent Villa Speyer was taken away by the Nazi regime in 1938.[4]

Family tree

  • Joseph Lazard Speyer (1783–1846), married to Jette Ellissen
    • Lazard Joseph Speyer (1810–1876)
      • Georg Speyer (de) (1835–1902), banker, married to Franziska Gumbert
        • Alfred Julius Speyer (1871–)
    • Philip Speyer (1815–1876), emigrated to the United States in 1837 to establish the New York branch, Speyer & Co.[5]
    • Gustav Speyer (1825–1883), followed his brother to the US, joined Speyer & Co. in 1845
      • James Speyer (1861–1941), senior partner at Speyer & Co. since 1899, married to Ellin Lowery (1849–1921)
      • Edgar Speyer (1862–1932), moved to London in 1897,[6] married to Leonora von Stosch (1872–1956)
      • Hanna Lucie Speyer (1870–1930), married to Eduard Beit (1860–1933), cousin of Alfred Beit (1853–1906)
        • Herbert Beit von Speyer (1899–1961)

References

  1. ↑ Prominent Families of New York, The Historical company, New York, 1897
  2. ↑ Yiddish-German Correspondence between Two Jewish-German Banks
  3. ↑ Kopper, Christopher (1995). Zwischen Marktwirtschaft und Dirigismus : Bankenpolitik im "Dritten Reich" 1933–1939. Bonn: Bouvier. p. 246. ISBN 3-416-02529-6.  (German)
  4. ↑ History of the Villa Speyer in Frankfurt
  5. ↑ Supple, Barry E. (1957). "A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York". Business History Review 31 (2): 143–178. JSTOR 3111848. 
  6. ↑ Daunton, M. J. (2002). "Financial elites and British society, 1880–1950". In Cassis, Youssef. Finance and Financiers in European History 1880–1960. Cambridge University Press. pp. 121–146 [p. 134]. ISBN 0521893739. 

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