Nelke, Phillips & Bendix

Nelke, Phillips & Bendix was an important stockbroking firm in the City of London from the 1890s through to the First World War.

[2] The firm became prominent dealers in the mining share market in the 1890s and dealt, at times, for King Edward VII.

The firm had its offices at Throgmorton Avenue and at Warnford Court in the City of London.

[4] In March 1917, in the midst of World War I, a petition was raised by the Stock Exchange Anti-German Union, listing 142 members mainly of alien enemy birth, calling on the Committee for General Purposes not to re-elect them.

As a result some fifty members, including prominent brokers such at Paul Nelke, Julius Stamm and Louis Fleischmann, were not reelected.

[8] Nelke had prospered in the post-war oil boom and decided to set up his son-in-law (who had been a London representative for Salomon Brothers) as a stockbroker.