Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann (3 August 1798,
Rodenberg – 23 November, 1876,
Bonn-Mehlem) was a
German
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banker.
Wilhelm was the third son of the mayor and district judge Konrad Deichmann (1769–1838).
He was fifteen years old when he volunteered to fight in the
Wars of Liberation.
He completed a commercial apprenticeship in
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
and then took up a position at the
A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bank Association The corporation of A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bank Association (german: 'A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein') was a bank based in Cologne and was the first joint stock company legally recognised as a bank in Germany.
Company history
In 1791 Abraham Sc ...
.
When
Abraham Schaaffhausen died in 1824, the firm was initially taken over by his son-in-law Louis Mertens, who had difficulty taking the firm forward. However, on 26 May 1830 Deichmann married
Elisabeth Schaaffhausen, another daughter of Abraham Schaaffhausen and became head of the firm when Mertens resigned.
was his great granddaughter.
References
German bankers
1798 births
1876 deaths
Businesspeople from Lower Saxony
People from Schaumburg
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