The banking house Mendelssohn was a Jewish private bank house with seat in Berlin, in the meantime it by the German bank was taken over.

It was created 1795 by Joseph Mendelssohn in the splinter duration road with two employees. Later it accepted its brother Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy to its business.

1820 referred the banking house its well-known head office in the hunter route 49-51, where citizen of Berlin was established later the bank quarter. In the building the master seat of the largest private, German banking house was up to the liquidation 1939.

Starting from 1860 banker of the Russian Zaren, the Mendelssohns was prominent emitters of Russian government loans up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Kreditinstitut got over the economically heavy times of the Weimar Republic and the world economic crisis well.

In the context of the Arisierung the banking house with 130 coworkers, a balance sheet total by 100.000.000 realm Marks and own capital funds was transferred by 22.000.000 realm Marks by the German bank. To the Arisierung Hermann Josef Abs, Heinrich Ulrich and the Mendelssohnmitarbeiter Alfred Kurzmeyer were prominently involved.

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• Guide to the Mendelssohn Family Papers, 1717-1907, 1936, 1959-1977 ...
  Joseph was the eldest son of Moses Mendelssohn and founded the banking house of Mendelssohn and Co. together with his brother Abraham. ...


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• Wikipedia: Moses Mendelssohn
  Mendelssohn had six children, of whom only Joseph retained the Jewish faith. His sons were: Joseph (founder of the Mendelssohn banking house, ...