Person Sheet

Name Isidor CASSIRER  Birth 25 Mar 1859, Niederheydeck139 Death 4 Apr 1929, Berlin Burial Schoenhauser Allee Cemetary, Berlin273 Occupation Merchant Father Markus CASSIRER (1801-~1880) Mother Jeanette STEINITZ (1813-1889)
Spouses
1 Else SOMMERGUTH Birth 28 Jul 1857 Death 27 Jul 1891, Berlin Burial Berlin Cemetary, Berlin Father Gustav SOMMERGUTH Mother Cilchen (Cecilie) ? (1837-1919)
Children Charlotte Betty (1886-1972) Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz) (1888-1979) Erich (1881-1963) Child 5 Son Child 6 Child 7
2 Lydia KOPELANSKY 139,160 Birth 17 Nov 1865, Kovno, Russia Death 18 Nov 1933, Berlin, Germany Burial Weissensee Cemetary, Berlin273
Marriage 16 Apr 1894, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany274
Children Rudolph Walter (1895-1955)
Notes for Isidor CASSIRER
Place: Originally from Schwientochlowitz in Upper Silesia. See also Notes: WD Falk's account. Isidor Cassirer went into the timber trade and made some money, and then moved to Berlin from Breslau. That was in the 1870's. And this was the time directly after the war with France and the unification of the Reich and a time of tremendous economic boom, which they called the "Gruenderjahre" -"the founder's years". And so being in the timber trade was very profitable because there was a lot of building going on. So he also started to speculate in building and they built big apartment houses in Berlin. He then moved into the manufacture of timber pulp in Poland and became a millionaire. Isidor lost his wife in childbirth, and married again. When the 1914 War ended part of the constitution of the new Poland or the law of the new Poland was that Germans couldn't own the property in Poland. So Isidor and his brother (Max), who owned the factory sold their factory for 11 million marks to an American consortium which paid out these 11 million marks to Isidor and his brother in Switzerland in Swiss currency.