Jakob Goldschmidt

Place: Eldagsen

Born: 1882

Death: 1955

Biography:

Hans Jakob Mair, also known as Jakob Goldschmidt, was a German-Jewish banker born in Eldagsen, Germany on December 31, 1882. He died in New York on September 23, 1955. Goldschmidt studied banking in Hanover and worked at the Nationalbank für Deutschland in Berlin. In 1909, he founded the private bank Schwarz. He held up to 123 supervisory board mandates, including in Ufa and IG Farben. Goldschmidt was also an art collector, with an extensive collection that was auctioned off by the Nazis in the 1940s. He is known for restitution claims regarding a Daumier bronze sculpture and a painting attributed to Nikolaus Alexander Mair von Landshut. There is a literature about his life and work, including a master's thesis from the University of Mainz and several books.