Identifer: CJF-RFC2015401

Medium
Bronze

Description
This medal was designed by the artist A. Hartig and was issued in Bronze with the edge marked with Munzant Wien
 
                       
This medal was issued in honor of Carl von Weinberg (1861 - 1943) who was an important Jewish industrialist in Germany and was a member of German delegation to the Versailles peace negotiations.
 
He was the Commercial Director of the paint factory in Cassella, Frankfurt-Fechenheim. The trading company Cassella was the world's leading manufacturer of synthetic dyes. Carl von Weinberg was a great benefactor for the districts of Swan House and Niederrad. In Swan home, he promoted the construction of the middle school that was named in his honor, the Carl von Weinberg School. In Niederrad he promoted the establishment of an orphanage. As a horse lover and polo player, he was co-founder of the stud Waldfried and the Frankfurt Polo Club.
 
In 1898 he built in Germany, together with his English wife Mary the mansion Waldfried in an English country house style.
 
After the Nazis took power in Germany, Carl von Weinberg was persecuted because of his Jewish origin. He was forced to abandon his positions in the economy. Both the school and the Carl-von-Weinberg street were renamed. In 1938 he was forced to sell his home, Villa Waldfried and his art collection for a fraction of their value to the city.
 
After this expropriation of his property, and having been widowed in 1937, moved in with his sister in Italy, where he died in March 1943.
 
The Weinberg estate, Waldfried, was destroyed in an air raid in 1944