Bethmann organization

“They attached particular significance to winning over the banker Bethmann…”

“Prince Metternich came into contact with all the local magnates at Frankfort, including Bethmann…”

“Amschel was collaborating with Bethmann, Gontard, and Brentano in a scheme for founding a bank at Frankfort…”

“Bismarck said he would transfer the Prussian delegation’s account to Bethmann.…”

“Only by entering into loose partnerships—with Mendelssohn in Berlin, Bethmann and Gontard in Frankfurt, Arnstein & Eskeles in Vienna and Parish & Co. in Hamburg—were Salomon and James able to participate in the initial payments to Prussia a…”

“now they had to face a determined effort by the Barings and Bethmanns to reclaim their earlier predominance in European public finance…”

“In 1818, for example, the Frankfurt house distributed shares of the Rothschilds’ new Prussian loan not only to other Frankfurt bankers like Bethmann and Gontard...…”

“In May 1816 Salomon gave a dinner to which he invited the leading members of the diplomatic corps, as well as Bethmann and Gontard.…”

“In the spring of 1830, when the Austrian government had issued a loan of 30 million gulden of 4 per cent metalliques, he had merely been one of a consortium of four issuing houses, along with Arnstein & Eskeles, Sina and Geymüller; and he h…”

“When in 1838 a concession was secured from the Frankfurt Senate for the so-called Taunusbahn, Amschel and Bethmann had to buy out a rival company which had been authorised to build a line along a parallel route by the authorities in Kassel.…”

“It was Oppenheim who led the Rhineland consortium, taking around 25 per cent of its 3 million thaler capital, compared with a combined Paris and Frankfurt Rothschild holding of just a fortieth; similarly, it was the Bethmanns who led the £2…”

“...by lending money to which the firm of Ruppell and Harnier, as well as that of Bethmann, had made great profits.…”

“Metternich had also frequently had recourse to various bankers, including such Frankfort bankers as Bethmann and the brothers Miihlen.…”

“Without replying to the brothers Rothschild, Barbier submitted this letter, with some relevant observations of his own, to Ugarte, adding that certain other firms, including Bethmann, had also applied for the business.…”

“Bethmann replied that Rothschild could carry through the business much more easily than he could, because he had to make considerable payments to the English troops in the Netherlands, on account of the English government.…”