Louis Necker

Louis Necker, called de Germany (31 August 1730 in Geneva – 31 July 1804 in Cologny) was a Genevan mathematician, physicist, professor and a banker in Paris.

He was the elder brother of Jacques Necker, minister of Finance in France when the French Revolution broke out.

For a while he became the governor of probably Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg and Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold during their stay in Geneva and traveled with them to the University of Turin.

[2][3] He managed a boarding school for young Englishmen held by his father Charles Frederick, lawyer and professor of law at the Geneva Academy.

[5] In 1762 with the help of his brother he was appointed in a trading house in Marseille and added to his last name de Germany, after the family estate near Rolle.

[4] His son Jacques (1757-1825), who had joined the French army, married Albertine Necker de Saussure in 1785.