Amschel Mayer von Rothschild person

“Meir Shfeya... named after Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773–1855), the Benefactor's grandfather…”

“the office in the Fahrgasse built by Amschel and Salomon in the first flower of their prosperity became a museum for Jewish antiquities.…”

“He stayed on in the house in the Bockenheimer Landstrasse, with the garden which his wife’s great-uncle Amschel had acquired over a century before…”

“When Carl and Amschel travelled to see the Elector in Prague, following his flight south from Denmark, correspondence was hidden in specially fitted secret compartments.…”

“Such precautions were justified; in addition to the searches and interrogations described above, the French police succeeded in intercepting at least one letter in 1811.…”

“For this reason, the Rothschilds continued to operate behind a veil of secrecy even in Prague, leading the police to draw somewhat exaggerated inferences about their political role:…”

“These suppositions are based on facts: whenever I enter the Elector’s quarters, I always find Rotschild [ sic ] there, and generally in the company of Army Councillor Schminke and War Secretary Knatz, and they go into their own rooms and Ro…”

“These suppositions are based on facts: whenever I enter the Elector’s quarters, I always find Rotschild [ sic ] there, and generally in the company of Army Councillor Schminke and War Secretary Knatz, and they go into their own rooms and Ro…”

“Yet for all the risks they took on his behalf, the Rothschilds were never wholly trusted by William.…”

“Throughout this time, Mayer Amschel had to rely on Buderus to reassure the Elector.…”

“In return for investing 20,000 gulden—the sum which Mayer Amschel admitted to having received when questioned by Savagner—Buderus promised “to advise that firm in all business matters to the best of his ability and to advance its interests …”

“In the light of this—to say nothing of the deals struck by Mayer Amschel with the French authorities and with Dalberg—the Elector’s mistrust begins to look rather less like paranoia.…”

“In the light of this—to say nothing of the deals struck by Mayer Amschel with the French authorities and with Dalberg—the Elector’s mistrust begins to look rather less like paranoia.…”

“When, in May 1812, he requested that one of Mayer Amschel’s sons move to Prague to act as a kind of court agent in exile, he was politely but firmly rebuffed.…”

“Amschel never left Frankfurt...…”