Arnstein & Eskeles organization

“...just as Louis’s great-grandfather Salomon had bailed out Arnstein & Eskeles on the eve of the 1848 crisis...…”

“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…”

“Three years later Salomon went into partnership with two leading Vienna houses, Arnstein & Eskeles and Simon G. Sina, to float a large 6.5 million gulden loan (at 6 per cent).…”

“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…”

“Indeed, in allowing Sina and Arnstein & Eskeles substantial shareholdings in the Nordbahn and according them due influence on the company’sIs provisional board of management, he was singularly accommodating.…”

“At the second general meeting of the Nordbahn, Ludwig von Pereira (a partner at Arnstein & Eskeles) launched a well-researched technical critique...…”

“With 76 out of the 83 votes in favour, he was able to force Sina and Eskeles to resign.…”

“However, the failure of Haber proved to have potentially disastrous implications for Eskeles, whom he owed 1 million gulden.…”

“Faced with a request to render yet more assistance to Arnstein & Eskeles... Anselm immediately informed my father... that... I forbade any further financial sacrifice…”