Carl von Weinberg

Carl von Weinberg (born September 14, 1861, in Frankfurt am Main; died March 14, 1943, near Florence) was an important Jewish German chemist, entrepreneur, patron of the arts and philanthropist. Life Carl and his brother Arthur von Weinberg, who was one year older, came from a Jewish merchant family; their father was Bernhard Weinberg. In 1880, both brothers were baptized as Protestants. Carl completed a commercial apprenticeship and in 1882, at the age of 21, like his brother, became a partner in the Leopold Cassella & Co. company, which in 1894 merged with the Frankfurt aniline dye factory founded by his uncle Leo Gans and subsequently achieved world fame as Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur in the manufacture of synthetic dyes. In Niederrad he had settled in 1898 together with his wife May (Ethel Mary Villers Forbes from the house of the Irish Earls of Granard), born in Plymouth in 1866. had the Villa Waldfried built in the English country house style by the architects Aage von Kauffmann and Otto Bäppler. This villa comprised around 100 rooms. It provided space for the couple's important art collection of over 700 objects.