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Fritz Mannheimer (19 September 1890 – 9 August 1939) was a German-born and, from 1936, Dutch banker and art collector who was the director of the Amsterdam branch of the Berlin-based investment bank Mendelssohn & Co. that was for some time the main supporter of the Dutch capital market.
Mar 24, 2021 · Fritz Mannheimer – stockbroker of peace - Engelsberg ideas. March 24, 2021. Nicholas Mulder. The German-born Jewish emigré found riches as a clever banker in inter-war Amsterdam. He was soon to find a higher purpose for his accounting skills: the fight against fascism in Europe. Portrait of Dr. F. Mannheimer by A. Roland Holst-de Meester.
Fritz Mannheimer Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer tried to take their treasured collection of porcelain with them when they fled the Nazis. However, under great financial pressure due to the persecution, in 1937 they decided to sell part of it to the Amsterdam collector Fritz Mannheimer.
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Mar 11, 2005 · In 1939, the young Jane Reiss married Dr. Fritz Mannheimer, a 49-year-old German-born banker who was the head of the Amsterdam branch of the 125-year-old private bank Mendelssohn & Company....
Fritz Mannheimer (19 September 1890 – 9 August 1939) was a German-born and, from 1936, Dutch banker and art collector who was the director of the Amsterdam branch of the Berlin -based investment bank Mendelssohn & Co. that was for some time the main supporter of the Dutch capital market.
A native of Stuttgart, Germany, Fritz Mannheimer trained as a lawyer at Heidelberg University and then embarked on a financial career in Paris, where he worked for a Russian-owned banking concern until the outbreak of World War I forced him to return home.2 About halfway through the war, he relocated to neutral Holland, living and working in Ams...
In 1952 the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam was vastly enriched with 1400 objects from the estate of the Amsterdam Jewish banker Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939). During his years in Amsterdam as a banker, from 1916 to 1939, Mannheimer purchased 3000 high quality objects of applied art and fine art.
