Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Rodenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann
- Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann (3 August 1798, Rodenberg – 23 November, 1876, Bonn-Mehlem) was a German 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 and then took up a position at the A.
- Schaaffhausen'scher Bank Association.
- 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.
- Freya von Moltke was his great granddaughter.
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