Ludwig Aaron Gans (born 17 July 1794 in

Celle Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about 71,000. Celle is the southern gateway to the Lü ...

, died 27 June 1871 in

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) (also spelled ''Ludwig Ahron Gans'') was a German industrialist and owner of 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 ...

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

Jewish Alley and joined the firm Cassel & Reiss, owned by

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, as an apprentice. Gans received the power of

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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

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. The oldest son Friedrich Ludwig Gans joined Cassella & Co. as an apprentice in 1847 and would become a major industrialist and philanthropist in Germany; he converted to Christianity in 1885 and was ennobled in 1912. The younger son Leo Gans was also a noted industrialist, philanthropist and chemist. Ludwig Aaron Gans is interred at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt.B. Streich: ''Juden in Celle. Biographische Skizzen aus drei Jahrhunderten''. Celle 1996.

References

Businesspeople from Frankfurt Cassella people People from Celle 1794 births 1871 deaths 18th-century German Jews Burials at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt {{Germany-business-bio-stub