Baron Moritz von Cohn (19 September 1812 - 29 April 1900) was a German-Jewish private banker. Cohn was born in

Wörlitz is a town and a former municipality in the district of Wittenberg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it has been part of the town Oranienbaum-Wörlitz. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, east of Dessau. The historic pa ...

, in the Duchy of

Anhalt-Dessau Anhalt-Dessau was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and later a duchy of the German Confederation. Ruled by the House of Ascania, it was created in 1396 following the partition of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, and finally merged into t ...

. As the proprietor of a private bank in

Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Ro� ...

, he advanced to be court-banker to the

dukes of Anhalt The Duchy of Anhalt (german: Herzogtum Anhalt) was a historical German duchy. The duchy was located between the Harz Mountains in the west and the river Elbe and beyond to the Fläming Heath in the east. The territory was once ruled by the Hous ...

and also over several decades administered the private fortune of the Prussian crown prince and later emperor

Wilhelm I William I or Wilhelm I (german: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and German Emperor from 18 January 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the f ...

. He thus also made himself a strong financier of the capital for railroad construction, then developing in Germany. He died in

, aged 87.

References

* Erik Lindner: ''Ein „Edelmann aus Dessau“. Bankier Moritz von Cohn als Hofbankier in Anhalt und Preußen''. In: ''Sachsen-Anhalt: Beiträge zur Landesgeschichte''. Halle, Jg. 4 (1996). S. 59-79 * Erik Lindner: ''Baron Moritz von Cohn: Privat- und Hofbankier in Dessau und Berlin''. In: Erhard Hirsch (Hrsg.): ''Dessau-Wörlitz-Beiträge VIII: 1. Dessauer Gespräche. Gesellschaft - Religion - Wissenschaft - Kultur''. Dessau, 1998. S. 19-22 * Erik Lindner: ''Baron Moritz von Cohn: ein jüdischer Bankier aus Dessau''. Stadtarchiv Dessau, Dessau 2004. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohn, Moritz Von 1812 births 1900 deaths People from Wörlitz People from Anhalt-Dessau German barons 19th-century German Jews Court Jews German bankers 19th-century German businesspeople