Albert Ladenburg Family Collection 1834-1972

This collection contains materials relating to the Ladenburg family of Mannheim, primarily chemist Albert Ladenburg. It includes clippings and articles, diaries, personal ephemera, and a collection of bills and Notgeld from the Weimar-era hyperinflation.Albert Ladenburg (1842-1911) was born into a prominent Jewish family in Mannheim. He was a noted professor of chemistry in Kiel (1873-1889) and later in Breslau (1889-1909). In 1905, he won the Royal Society's Davy Medal. He was married to Margarete née Pringsheim, and their children were Rudolph Ladenburg (1882-1952) and Eric Ladenburg (1878-1908).Albert Ladenburg's father was jurist Leopold Ladenburg (1809-1899), and his grandfather was Wolf Hajum Ladenburg (1766-1851), who founded the private bank W.H. Ladenburg and Söhne in Mannheim in 1785.Processeddigitize