Anna Henriette Gossler

Anna Henriette Gossler (7 November 1771 – 2 August 1836) was a Hamburg banker, heiress and socialite.

On 20 May 1788, she married her father's employee Ludwig Erdwin Seyler, who immediately was made a partner in the bank and remained so until his death nearly half a century later.

Particularly in the years around the Napoleonic Wars she and her husband played prominent roles in Hamburg high society and politics, and Berenberg Bank was headquartered in their private home.

[1][2][3][4][5] She was the older sister of Hamburg senator Johann Heinrich Gossler and the aunt of Hamburg First Mayor (head of state) Hermann Gossler.

Her youngest daughter Henriette Seyler was married to the Norwegian industrialist Benjamin Wegner.

The coat of arms of the Gossler family ; the version adopted by her father in 1773 to the left; the version used from the early 19th century to the right