Leopold Koppel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leopold Koppel

German banker

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1843

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 29-Aug-1933

Profession: banker

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Geheimrat Leopold Koppel (20 October 1843 in Dresden – 29 August 1933 in Berlin) was a German banker and entrepreneur.
He founded the private banking house Koppel und Co., the industrial firms Auergesellschaft and OSRAM, and the philanthropic foundation the Koppel-Stiftung.
He was a Senator in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft.
An endowment he made in 1911 resulted in the founding of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, and endowments from him led to the founding of and support of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik.
He was a target of the Third Reich’s policy of Arisierung – the Aryanization of German businesses, which began in 1933.