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Leopold Koppel
Geheimrat Leopold Koppel (20 October 1843 in Dresden – 29 August 1933 in Berlin) was a German banker and entrepreneur. He founded the private banking house ''Koppel und Co.'', the industrial firms ''Auergesellschaft'' and ''OSRAM'', and the philanthropic foundation the ''Koppel-Stiftung''. He was a Senator in the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft''. An endowment he made in 1911 resulted in the founding of the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie'', and endowments from him led to the founding of and support of the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik''. As a Jew, he was a target of the Third Reich’s policy of ''Arisierung'' – the Aryanization of German businesses, which began in 1933. Career Koppel was a Jewish banker, art collector and entrepreneur. In recognition of his contributions to German commerce, he was given the title ''Geheimer Kommerzienrat'' (Privy Councillor of Commerce), or, in short, Geheimrat. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. Many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
