Michael Frank
Michael Frank was Otto Frank's father and Anne and Margot's grandfather.
Michael Frank was the father of Otto Frank[1] and grandfather of Anne and Margot. Michael Frank married Alice Betty Stern on 3 January 1886.[2] Around 1900, he founded the ‘Bankhaus Michael Frank’.[3] In 1906, he searched the Dutch market for released bonds of the 'Peninsular Koper Maatschappij' and was prepared to pay one thousand guilders each for them.[4]
Michael Frank and his wife had three sons: Robert, Otto and Herbert; and a daughter Helène.[5] Shortly before his death Michael Frank received an invitation from the 'königliche Kriegsministerium' to an opening of an 'Offiziersheim' on 20 August 1909.[6] He died while his son Otto was in New York. The rabbi Caesar Seligman gave a eulogy, a transcript of which has been preserved.[7]
Source personal data.[5] Addresses: Gärtnerweg 58, Frankfurt am Main, idem 40, Jordanstrasse (later Mertonstrasse) 4.[8]
Footnotes
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 8 May 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds (AFF), Basel, Alice Frank, AFF_AlF_pdoc_01: Feestboekje “Zur Feier der Vermählung des Fräulein Alice Stern mit Herrn Michael Frank”.
- ^ Jürgen Steen, Wolf von Wolzogen, Anne aus Frankfurt. Leben und Lebenswelt Anne Franks, Frankfurt am Main: Historisches Museum, 1990, p. 22.
- ^ Algemeen Handelsblad, 25 maart 1906, ochtendeditie.
- a, b AFF, Alice Frank, AFF_AlF_pdoc_02: Familien-Stammbuch Michael Frank en Alice Stern.
- ^ AFF, Alice Frank, AFF_AlF_bdoc_03: “Auf allerhöchsten Befehl….”.
- ^ AFF, Alice Frank, AFF_AlF_pdoc_10: ‘Trauer-Rede an der Bahre des Herrn Michael Frank, 19 September 1909’.
- ^ Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, research Wolf von Wolzogen: Kopie gezinskaart.
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Algemeen Handelsblad, 25 maart 1906, ochtendeditie
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