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George Speyer (until 1857 it called itself Gustav S.) (* 1 January 1835 in Frankfurt/Main; "† 24 April 1902 ebenda) was a German banker and a Frankfurt

George Speyer comes of to one since the center 17. Century in Frankfurt/Main resident Jewish banker family, which had business branches in New York and London. George Speyer buildup as a son of the banker Lazarus Joseph Speyer and its cousin Therese Ellisen in Frankfurt/Main and visited there the Philanthropin. It completed its commercial training in the branches of the exempt private company in the USA and in England. 1862 he became an attorney, 1868 partners in the paternal banking house in Frankfurt, where he was active up to its death in leading function. 1869 married George Speyer the citizens of Berlin banker daughter Franziska Gumbert.

Speyer stepped apart from its vocational activity into Frankfurt particularly as a promoter of social, artistic and scientific mechanisms to the public. He was joint founder of the share building firm for small dwellings (1890), which with support of other Frankfurt in their populated areas of association houses, reading and lecture halls, kindergartens and - cribs furnished. Speyer promoted an association for people kindergartens and was 1899 joint founders and member of the advisory board of the Centrale for private welfare service in Frankfurt. From its sociopolitical commitment in the Wilhelmini Germany of the Vorkriegszeit witness its membership in the executive committee of the society for the study of Jewish cultural monuments and in the association for the protection against the Antisemitismus. 

An important role played George Speyer with the establishment and with the development of the Frankfurt university. It supported the work of the mayor Franz Adickes beside William Merton and other Frankfurt promoters. Thus it financed two chairs to the 1901 eroffneten academy for social and commercial sciences, which can be considered as forerunners of the university, from the means for this purpose together with its wife George and Franziska Speyer' study donation brought into being.
After Speyers death continued his Mrs. Franziska Speyer the work of their man energetically, whereby it could fall back 1902 to a trust property of 31 million realm Marks. By its brother-in-law Ludwig Darmstaedter was made attentive it on the research work Paul Ehrlichs, whom its man had already promoted. Thus it donated 1906 1 million realm Mark for the establishment of a chemotherapeutic research institute. It should serve the work Ehrlichs, was however simultaneously as central building (George Speyer house) of an academy for practical medicine on the area of the urban hospital in Frankfurt Saxonia living meant.  
After death Franziska Speyers were financially supplemented the donations furnished by the married couple Speyer and supplemented by far mechanisms. Under the Nazi rule they "“were arisiert"” as Jewish mechanisms and renamed. 1949 was brought again the most important mechanisms as George and Franziska Speyer' university donation into being.
(Source: Frankfurt biography. Hrsg. v. W.  Frankfurt/Main 1996)
Literature
  • Frankfurt biography. Hrsg. v. W.  Bd. 2. Frankfurt/Main 1996
  • Hans Otto Schembs: George and Franziska Speyer - founders and  for Frankfurt A.M. Frankfurt/Main 2001
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