Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer was a

bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...

er that ran his family owned French bank Messieurs Hottinguer & Cie taking over from his father Baron Jean–Henri Hottinguer in 1866. He passed on the bank to his son

Baron Henri Hottinguer Baron Henri Hottinguer, was born at castle Piple on 15 September 1868, the first-born son of Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer. He had a long and prosperous life, and during his era the bank, Hottinger & Cie, accomplished many achievements. He took con ...

at the age of 83. He was born in

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in 1835 and died there in 1920.

History

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Like his father, Rodolphe at the age of 18 left Paris on a journey to England. He returned to Paris for a very short period before he took off on another voyage; the destination this time was America. When he returned, he achieved vast success in the financial world. His first stop was Constantinople, where he linked Hottinger & Cie with all the great banking families in Europe. During this time he founded the

Ottoman Bank The Ottoman Bank ( tr, Osmanlı Bankası), known from 1863 to 1925 as the Imperial Ottoman Bank (french: Banque Impériale Ottomane, ota, بانق عثمانی شاهانه) and correspondingly referred to by its French acronym BIO, was a bank ...

. For this he was personally thanked by the sultan and made grand vizier.

Career

During his time, the Hottinger banking house played an important role in major development projects in France and elsewhere in Europe: creation of major manufacturing and services companies, the co-founding of banking and insurance companies and the first railways—Baron Rodolphe was Vice Chairman of

Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée ("Railway Company of Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean"), also known as the Chemins de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée or simply PLM, established in 1857, was one of Fran ...

, and his portrait, next to that of Sarah Bernhardt, still forms part of the fresco depicting numerous personalities of the time at the famous Train Bleu restaurant at the

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in Paris. The Work of Baron Rodolphe during this time was to safeguard the Hottinguer Bank during the agitated times of the war of 1870 and the Great War. When he reached the age of 83 he entrusted the Bank to his son Henri Hottinguer.

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Sources

*''Messieurs Hottinguer Banquiers à Paris'', Max Gérard, 1968, Tome Premier. * ''Capitals of Capital, A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005'', /

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Biodata
hottinger.com; accessed 18 February 2015.

lavf.com; accessed 18 February 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hottinguer, Baron Rodolphe 1835 births 1920 deaths Rodolphe Barons of France French bankers Regents of the Banque de France French Protestants

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