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Guido Elbogen
Guido Elbogen (1845–1918) was an Austrian banker and mathematician who became President of the Anglo-Austrian Bank. Early life He was born into a Jewish family on 27 December 1845 in Jungbunzlau (now Mladá Boleslav) in Bohemia. Jungbunzlau, which was then in the Austrian Empire, is now Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic. Of the children of Rabbi Isak Elbogen (1812–1883) and his wife Friederike (''née'' Pokorny; 1825–1906) he was the only one to survive beyond infancy. Career After studying at the Academy of Commerce in Prague, Elbogen entered the banking business at the Ladenburg Bank in London, before moving to Paris where he joined Oppenheim, Alberti and Co, working to Antoine Schwabacher whose daughter Rosalie he married in 1868. In 1874 a lampooning cartoon of him appeared on the front cover of an issue of the French satirical newspaper '' Comic-Finance'', which also included a biographical piece by the newspaper's editor Ernest Schrameck, writing under the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Austrian Bank
The Anglo-Österreichische Bank (), in shorthand Anglobank, was a bank founded in Vienna in 1863 with an extensive branch network in the Habsburg Monarchy and later in its successor states, primarily Austria and Czechoslovakia. Following the collapse of the monarchy, the Anglobank came under the control of the Bank of England, and in 1921, its head office was moved to London where it was restructured as the Anglo-Austrian Bank. In 1926, it was renamed Anglo-International Bank to reflect the sale that year of most of its Austrian activities to Creditanstalt. As a consequence, the Anglo-International Bank became one of the Creditanstalt's main shareholders, and played a role in the internationally consequential collapse of Creditanstalt in 1931. After 1933, Anglo-International Bank stopped making new commitments. It remained formally in business until 1951, and was eventually liquidated in 1962. In Czechoslovakia, the former Anglobank branches were restructured in 1922 into a sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
