Darmstadter Bank founded to rival the Rothschilds
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- The House of Rothschild whole source · open book
On April 2, 1853, the Cologne bankers Abraham Oppenheim and Gustave Mevissen of the Schaffhausenscher Bankverein were granted a licence by the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt to open a discounting and issuing bank. They called the new bank the Darmstädter Bank fur Handel und Industrie
chapter: TWO - The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)