Rudolf Berenberg (born 1680, died 1746) was a

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merchant and banker and a member of the Berenberg banking family. He served as President of the

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1728–1729 and as a Hamburg

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from 1735. He was the son of

Cornelius Berenberg Cornelius Berenberg (1634 – 1711) was a Hamburg grand burgher, merchant banker, a member of the Berenberg family, and owner of Berenberg Bank. His grandfather Hans Berenberg (1561–1626) had fled from Antwerp with his brother Paul Berenberg ( ...

, and was married to Anna Elisabeth

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(1690–1748), a daughter of Paul Amsinck (1649–1706) and Christina Adelheid Capelle (1663–1730). He was the father of *Rudolf Berenberg (1712–1761), merchant in Hamburg *Cornelius Berenberg (1714–1773), merchant in

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* Paul Berenberg (1716–1768), Senator, co-owner of Berenberg Bank *

Johann Berenberg Johann Berenberg (born 12 March 1718 in Hamburg, died 2 March 1772 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg merchant banker. He was a co-owner of Berenberg Bank from 1748, with his brother, senator Paul Berenberg, and after the latter's death in 1768 the sole o ...

(1718–1772), co-owner and then sole owner of Berenberg Bank, married Anna Maria Lastrop (1723–1761)

Literature

*''Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co.: Die Geschichte eines deutschen Privatbankhauses'',

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, Hamburg 1990 *

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, ''Neun Generationen: Dreihundert Jahre deutscher Kulturgeschichte im Lichte der Schicksale einer Hamburger Bürgerfamilie (1648–1948)''. Vol. I and II, Göttingen 1963/64. German bankers German merchants Senators of Hamburg (before 1919) Rudolf Berenberg Bank people Grand burghers of Hamburg 1680 births 1746 deaths 18th-century German businesspeople {{finance-stub