Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744-1812
With the help of family members, Mayer Amschel secured an apprenticeship under Jacob Wolf Oppenheimer, at the banking agency of Simon Wolf Oppenheimer in Hanover, in 1757. The grandson of Samuel Oppenheimer taught Rothschild useful knowledge in foreign commerce and forex trade, earlier than he returned to his brothers’ enterprise in Frankfurt in 1763. He …