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Anna Henriette Gossler
Born	(1771-11-07)7 November 1771 Hamburg
Died	2 August 1836(1836-08-02) (aged 64) Hamburg
Nationality	Hamburg
Spouse	Ludwig Erdwin Seyler
Parents	Johann Hinrich Gossler (father) Elisabeth Berenberg (mother)

Anna Henriette Gossler (7 November 1771 – 2 August 1836) was a Hamburg banker, heiress and socialite.

Biography

Gossler was born in Hamburg. Anna Henriette Gossler, who went by the name of Henriette, was a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/Gossler banking family, arguably the most prominent family of the then independent city-state of Hamburg alongside the related Amsinck family. She was the oldest daughter of the bankers Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg, owners of Berenberg Bank, which had been founded by her family in 1590. On 20 May 1788, she married her father's employee Ludwig Erdwin Seyler, who immediately was made a partner in the bank and remained so until his death nearly half a century later. After the death of her father in 1790 her husband became head of the company. Particularly in the years around the Napoleonic Wars she and her husband played prominent roles in Hamburg high society and politics, and Berenberg Bank was headquartered in their private home.

She was the older sister of Hamburg senator Johann Heinrich Gossler and the aunt of Hamburg First Mayor (head of state) Hermann Gossler. Her father-in-law was the theatre principal Abel Seyler, the leading patron of German theatre in the late 18th century. Her youngest daughter Henriette Seyler was married to the Norwegian industrialist Benjamin Wegner.

Ancestry

References

1. Obituary, Hamburger Nachrichten, 12 August 1836, p. 5
2. ^ Percy Ernst Schramm (1963), Neun Generationen: Dreihundert Jahre deutscher Kulturgeschichte im Lichte der Schicksale einer Hamburger Bürgerfamilie (1648–1948). Göttingen. Volume I
3. A. Leesenberg, "Genealogie der Familie Gossler," Vierteljahrsschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie, IX, pp. 17–25, Carl Heymann's Verlag, Berlin, 1881
4. Clarita Bernstorff, Hartwig Bernstorff, Emanuel Eckardt, Change is the only constant: Berenberg; a history of one of the world's oldest banks, Hanser Literaturverlage, 336 pages, ISBN 978-1-56990-601-9
5. Percy Ernst Schramm: "Kaufleute während Besatzung, Krieg und Belagerung (1806–1815); der Hamburger Handel in der Franzosenzeit, dargestellt an Hand von Firmen- und Familienpapieren." In Tradition: Zeitschrift für Firmengeschichte und Unternehmerbiographie, vol. 4, no 1 (February 1959), pp. 1–22. "II. Teil." In vol. 4, no. 2 (April 1959), pp. 88–114

v t e Berenberg family and Berenberg Bank
History	Berenberg family Gossler (Berenberg-Gossler) family Seyler family  Baron of Berenberg-Gossler
Bank	Berenberg Bank  Universal Investment  Berenberg Bank Stiftung
Berenberg family	Cornelius Berenberg Rudolf Berenberg Paul Berenberg Johann Berenberg Elisabeth Berenberg Johann Hinrich Gossler Anna Henriette Gossler Ludwig Erdwin Seyler Johann Heinrich Gossler Henriette Seyler Johann von Berenberg-Gossler Hermann Gossler John von Berenberg-Gossler Cornelius von Berenberg-Gossler Heinrich von Berenberg-Gossler
Other people	Joachim von Berenberg-Consbruch Holger Schmieding Peter von Kap-Herr Hans-Walter Peters

• Berenberg-Gossler family
• Berenberg Bank people
• 1771 births
• 1836 deaths
• Bankers from the Holy Roman Empire