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.

[3] 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.

[4] had the Villa Waldfried built in the English country house style by the architects Aage von Kauffmann and Otto Bäppler.

One year before they moved in, their longed-for daughter Wera was born in 1897 (died April 9, 1943, in London), who later married Richard von Szilvinyi.

Carl von Weinberg donated a considerable amount for the Niederräder parish Mother of Good Counsel for the construction of a new church.

In 1925, the Weinberg brothers led Cassella-Farbwerke into a merger to form IG Farbenindustrie AG, where they both served as supervisory and administrative board members.

During the war they were kept in the Limburg Cathedral Museum and in 1951, at the instigation of the Protestant Synod, they were installed in the nave of the Old St. Nicholas Church on Frankfurt's Römerberg.