Vienna Rothschild Bank organization

“A further loan of 5,500 gulden to Princess Melanie appears in the Vienna house’s books for N…”

“A second sign of trouble was the increasing autonomy of the Vienna house under Anselm...…”

“Anselm seems to have sought to end the Vienna house’s technical subordination to the Frankfurt house...…”

“This was followed by a similar accounting “divorce” between London and Vienna in 1870.…”

“Inevitably, Anselm was opposed to any reduction in the capital of the Vienna house.…”

“(Interestingly, this contract attempted to clip the wings of the Vienna house: it was stipulated that Albert would “not undertake any important transaction without having beforehand consulted with the other houses and having obtained the ap…”

“On the other hand, when the Vienna house issued a large Austrian loan in 1908, New Court was not even notified.…”

“This date, then—when the London, Paris and Vienna houses established by Nathan, James and Salomon became entirely separate entities—is the real watershed in Rothshild history...…”

“Increasingly, each house developed informal partners in its own market—Barings in London, the haute banque in Paris, the Creditanstalt in Vienna and the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Germany...…”

“For one thing, the war finally killed off what remained of co-operation between the Vienna house and its former associates in London and, Paris.…”

“In the aftermath, the Vienna house had a hand in stabilising the new schilling, thwarting the efforts of inflation enthusiasts like the financier and industrialist Camilio Castiglione...…”

“Notionally, as Nat suggested, the Frankfurt house remained responsible for its Vienna branch…”

“but it was on Salomon, his son Anselm and Carl’s eldest son Mayer Carl that the onus of responsibility naturally fell, reflecting the closer community of business interest between Frankfurt, Vienna and Naples.…”

“If anything, the position of the Vienna house was even worse. Not only was Salomon saddled with substantial amounts of metalliques...…”

“it was the ability of the London house (and to a lesser extent the Naples and Frankfurt houses) to bail out the stricken Paris and Vienna houses which proved decisive.…”

“it was the ability of the London house (and to a lesser extent the Naples and Frankfurt houses) to bail out the stricken Paris and Vienna houses which proved decisive.…”

“it was the ability of the London house (and to a lesser extent the Naples and Frankfurt houses) to bail out the stricken Paris and Vienna houses which proved decisive.…”

“...the Vienna house which, even after Anselm’s skilful salvage operation, still owed the Frankfurt house the immense sum of £1.7 million...…”

“...as well as a smaller sum to the Paris house.…”

“It was not until the summer, after a succession of meetings between the principal partners (including a full “congress” at Frankfurt in the spring), that the decision was taken to preserve the Vienna house by writing most of this money off.…”

“Solomon, the chief of the Vienna house, had in the meantime also come from Frankfort to Paris.…”