Leopold Cassella (born 8 December 1766 in

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 fest ...

, died 25 March 1847 in

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) was a German businessman, known for having founded the company

Cassella Cassella AG, formerly Leopold Cassella & Co. and Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur AG, commonly known as Cassella, was a German chemical and pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 1798 in the Frankfurt Jewish Alley by ...

, one of many predecessor companies of today's

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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, 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 ...

, who became Cassella's heir. Leopold Cassella is interred at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt.

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