Bismarck, financed by the Bliechröder banking family,…
January 1864 CE
Samuel Bleichröder had founded the banking firm of S. Bleichröder in 1803 in Berlin.
The bank maintains close contacts with the Rothschild family, the banking house of Bleichröder acting as a branch office in Berlin of the Rothschilds' bank.
S. Bleichröder has achieved international prominence in the mid-nineteenth century, under the leadership of Samuel's eldest son, Gerson von Bleichröder.
Among other activities, he manages the private banking transactions of Bismarck and with the transfer of credits and/or placing of loans on behalf of the Prussian state and the German Empire.
He is also a partner at the investment bank of the New York investment bank Ladenburg Thalmann.