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Leopold Cassella
Leopold Cassella (born 8 December 1766 in Friedberg, Hesse, died 25 March 1847 in Frankfurt) was a German businessman, known for having founded the company Cassella, one of many predecessor companies of today's Sanofi. Biography Born ''David Löb Cassel'', he grew up in a Jewish family in Friedberg as the son of a financier. After relocating to Frankfurt, he founded the company ''Cassel & Reiss'' with his brother-in-law Isaac Elias Reiss as a spice store in the Jewish Alley. He used the name ''Leopold Cassella'' for the first time when he married Nannette Reiss in Frankfurt in 1798, and acquired the Frankfurt burghership in 1812. He was also the founder of the Masonic lodge ''Zur aufgehenden Morgenröte'', which consisted of Frankfurt citizens primarily of the Jewish faith. He had no children of his own, but he raised his niece ''Rosette Goldschmidt'' like his own daughter. She married an employee of the firm, Ludwig Aaron Gans Ludwig Aaron Gans (born 17 July 1794 in Celle, di ...
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Leopold Cassella
Leopold Cassella (born 8 December 1766 in Friedberg, Hesse, died 25 March 1847 in Frankfurt) was a German businessman, known for having founded the company Cassella, one of many predecessor companies of today's Sanofi. Biography Born ''David Löb Cassel'', he grew up in a Jewish family in Friedberg as the son of a financier. After relocating to Frankfurt, he founded the company ''Cassel & Reiss'' with his brother-in-law Isaac Elias Reiss as a spice store in the Jewish Alley. He used the name ''Leopold Cassella'' for the first time when he married Nannette Reiss in Frankfurt in 1798, and acquired the Frankfurt burghership in 1812. He was also the founder of the Masonic lodge ''Zur aufgehenden Morgenröte'', which consisted of Frankfurt citizens primarily of the Jewish faith. He had no children of his own, but he raised his niece ''Rosette Goldschmidt'' like his own daughter. She married an employee of the firm, Ludwig Aaron Gans Ludwig Aaron Gans (born 17 July 1794 in Celle, di ...
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People From Friedberg, Hesse
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19th-century German Businesspeople
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German Company Founders
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Burials At The Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt
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1847 Deaths
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1766 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain, as King Charles III, and figurehead for Jacobitism. * January 14 – Christian VII becomes King of Denmark. * January 20 – Outside of the walls of the Thailand capital of Ayutthaya, tens of thousands of invaders from Burma (under the command of General Ne Myo Thihapate and General Maha Nawatra) are confronted by Thai defenders led by General Phya Taksin. The defenders are overwhelmed and the survivors take refuge inside Ayutthaya. The siege continues for 15 months before the Burmese attackers collapse the walls by digging tunnels and setting fire to debris. The city falls on April 9, 1767, and King Ekkathat is killed. * February 5 – An observer in Wilmington, North Carolina reports to the Edinburgh newspaper ''Caledonian Mercury'' that three ships have been seized by British men-of-war, on the ch ...
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Businesspeople From Frankfurt
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Cassella People
Cassella AG, formerly Leopold Cassella & Co. and Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur AG, commonly known as Cassella, was a German chemical industry, chemical and pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 1798 in the Frankfurter Judengasse, Frankfurt Jewish Alley by Leopold Cassella, Cassella operated as an independent company until 1995 and was one of many predecessor companies of today's Sanofi. Its main products were dyes, Pharmaceutical drug, drugs, cosmetics and various other chemical products. From 1949 Cassella focused increasingly on pharmaceuticals and cosmetics rather than its former primary focus, dyes. Much of its history is closely associated with the Gans family, a prominent family of industrialists and philanthropists and former owners of Cassella. History The company was founded as a spice store inside the Frankfurter Judengasse, Frankfurt Jewish Alley in 1798 by the Jewish businessman Leopold Cassella and his brothe ...
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Friedberg, Hesse
Friedberg (; official name: ''Friedberg (Hessen)'') is a town and the capital of the Wetteraukreis district, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 26 km (16 miles) north of Frankfurt am Main. In 1966, the town hosted the sixth ''Hessentag'' state festival, in 1979 the 19th. Division of the town The town consists of 7 districts: * Bruchenbrücken * Friedberg * Dorheim * Ockstadt * Bauernheim * Fauerbach * Ossenheim History The old city was refounded by the Hohenstaufen dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire, conveniently located at important trading routes. The city initially rivaled Frankfurt am Main economically, with an important annual trading fair, and initial rapid expansion, though its economic fortunes soon dwindled. City tranquility was hampered by continuous rivalry between the two entities that made up Friedberg: The city and the castle of Friedberg that were politically independent from each other and in permanent competition, often quite maliciously, resulting in bitter rivalr ...
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Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt
The Old Jewish Cemetery of Frankfurt is located at Rat-Beil-Straße ("Councillor Beil Street") directly adjacent to the oldest parts of the gentile Frankfurt Main Cemetery. Together, Frankfurt Main Cemetery, the Old Jewish Cemetery and the New Jewish Cemetery constitute one of the largest cemetery areas in Germany. The Old Jewish Cemetery is noted for many monumental graves and includes the graves of many notable individuals. The Old Jewish Cemetery is the largest of Frankfurt's twelve Jewish cemeteries. It was opened, together with the Main Cemetery, in 1828. By 1928, when the cemetery was closed for new graves because it was full, there were around 40,000 burials on the cemetery. Since 1928, interment has only been possible in already established (family) graves. In its place, the New Jewish Cemetery was opened in 1928. Notable graves * Salomon Breuer (1850–1926), rabbi * Emma Budge (1852–1937), art collector and philanthropist * Leopold Cassella (1766–1847), bus ...
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Ludwig Aaron Gans
Ludwig Aaron Gans (born 17 July 1794 in Celle, died 27 June 1871 in Frankfurt) (also spelled ''Ludwig Ahron Gans'') was a German industrialist and owner of the company Cassella. Biography Ludwig Aaron Gans was the son of Jewish parents Philipp Aaron Gans and Fanny Hanau from Celle. His family had been merchants in Celle for 150 years. In 1814 he moved in with the related Goldschmidt family in the Frankfurt Jewish Alley and joined the firm Cassel & Reiss, owned by Leopold Cassella, as an apprentice. Gans received the power of procuration and became the firm's effective leader in 1820. In 1828, Gans married Rosette Goldschmidt (1805–1868), a niece and ''de facto'' adopted daughter of Leopold Cassella, and became a partner in the firm in the same year. From 1848 Ludwig Aaron Gans was the sole owner of Leopold Cassella & Co. Ludwig Aaron and Rosette Gans had six children: Henriette (Heidelbach), Marianne (Löwengard), Friedrich (Fritz) Ludwig, Pauline (Weinberg), Adolf and Leo G ...
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