Schröder family

[1][2] Christian Matthias Schröder (1742–1821), a native of Quakenbrück, became a Hamburg merchant and acquired the hereditary grand burghership.

Matthias Schröder & Co., with branches in Bremen, Amsterdam, London, St. Petersburg and Riga.

He was married to Luise Mutzenbecher (1754–1813), a member of a prominent Hamburg family.

They were the parents of Christian Mathias Schröder (1778–1860), who succeeded him as head of the firm and also became a Hamburg senator (1821–1859), and of Johann Heinrich Schröder, who settled in London and founded the investment bank Schroders.

In 1868, Johann Heinrich Schröder was ennobled by Prussia and received the title of Freiherr (Baron).