Rudolf Wodianer

Rudolf Wodianer (1788–1856), Feivish’s middle son, moved to Pest in 1810. Two years later, he married the 14-year-old sole heiress of Abraham Koppl, a wealthy merchant from Óbuda. Rudolf gained his wealth through transporting for the royal treasury, and by the 1840s was exporting wool and grain to Western Europe. He built large warehouses along the banks of the Danube in Pest, where as many as 60 workers washed and sorted wool before shipping it to England, France, Belgium, and Germany. Wodianer backed numerous entrepreneurial projects including the Steam Roll Mill, the Merchant Bank, and the Savings Bank. He also invested heavily in real estate, particularly in a grand three-story apartment house that became a landmark in Pest; as a Jew, however, he could not formally own the building and had to be satisfied with front men who also bought him several estates in the provinces. When he died, he left a fortune of 633,000 florins, of which a third was invested in urban real estate and a quarter in rural landed properties.

Rudolf Wodianer

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Rudolf Wodianer (1788–1856), Feivish’s middle son, moved to Pest in 1810. Two years later, he married the 14-year-old sole heiress of Abraham Koppl, a wealthy merchant from Óbuda. Rudolf gained his wealth through transporting for the royal treasury, and by the 1840s was exporting wool and grain to Western Europe. He built large warehouses along the banks of the Danube in Pest, where as many as 60 workers washed and sorted wool before shipping it to England, France, Belgium, and Germany. Wodianer backed numerous entrepreneurial projects including the Steam Roll Mill, the Merchant Bank, and the Savings Bank. He also invested heavily in real estate, particularly in a grand three-story apartment house that became a landmark in Pest; as a Jew, however, he could not formally own the building and had to be satisfied with front men who also bought him several estates in the provinces. When he died, he left a fortune of 633,000 florins, of which a third was invested in urban real estate and a quarter in rural landed properties.

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