John Löwenthal

Joel Wulf “John” Loewenthal was born in Danzig on June 14, 1821. His father was Wulf (ben Salomon) Löwenthal, who was also born in Danzig in 1792 and died on June 28, 1868 in Constantinople (Istanbul). John Löwenthal had three more brothers - Nathan, born in 1813, Isaak Lazarus, born in 1814 and Michael Bernhard, born in 1818. At a young age, John Löwenthal went to Constantinople in search of his father, like his brother Michael Bernhard  3 years before him. Around 1840 he sought his fortune in Berlin. In J. W. Boike's general housing advertisement for Berlin, Charlottenburg and the surrounding area for the year 1840, the following entry can be found -  J. Löwenthal, Particulier, Schönhauserstr.19. (A Particulier is a wealthy person who is neither employed nor engaged in a trade. They can therefore live well from the property and its income). Shortly after the barricade fights of the March Revolution in Berlin in 1848, John Löwenthal visited his brother Nathan in England. He then embarked on a 92-day sea voyage to Australia, lured by the gold rush of 1851/1852, but without having found great gold-seeking fortune there, John Löwenthal returned to Berlin and opened a small transport company (Warmuth-Compagnie) in 1853, which he ran very successfully. In 1857 he married Katharina Reich, born in 1832, daughter of a wealthy merchant from Budapest, which undoubtedly contributed to his business success, as did the transportation of Russian armaments during the Crimean War, which earned him the title of "Appointed Transporter of the Imperial Court of Russia". On August 31, 1860, his son Wulf John Willibald was born in Berlin. John Löwenthal died on October 5, 1879 in Kronberg and was laid to rest in the Schönhauser Allee Jewish cemetery north of Senefelderplatz in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin.