Adolph Salomonsohn

Salomonsohn first worked as an assessor in the guardianship department of the Berlin City Court.^[1] He rejected David Hansemann's offer to work for the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Berlin and instead started to practice as a lawyer and notary in Ratibor (Racibórz). After being publicly insulted by the Prussian minister of justice, Leopold zur Lippe-Biesterfeld-Weißenfeld, Salomonsohn closed his law office to return to Berlin and started to work for the Disconto-Gesellschaft in 1863. He was given procuration in 1866 and became proprietor in 1869.^[1][4]

Next to Adolph von Hansemann Salomonsohn was influential in the nascent stock market activities in German banking. He was especially active in the funding of the Gotthard railway and remained a member of the administrative board of the Gotthard railway society until 1909. Salomonsohn was also a member of the administrative board of the Norddeutsche Bank, the "Union AG für Bergbau" (Dortmund), the potash works Aschersleben and the "Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG", whose director Emil Kirdorf was a close friend.^[1]

Salomonsohn retired from the active management of the Disconto-Gesellschaft in 1888 but remained a member of the supervisory board until his death.^[1]

In 1868, Salomonsohn married Sara Rinkel (1851–1929) with whom he had four children including the banker Georg Solmssen (1869–1957).^[1] Through his daughter Charlotte Weigert (née Salomonsohn), Salomonsohn was the grandfather of Maria Weigert Brendel, a classical archaeologist and art historian, and was the great-grandfather of Cornelia Foss, an artist and teacher.^[5][6][7][8] Salomonsohn was the uncle of the banker Arthur Salomonsohn [de], and great-great-uncle of the American writer Arthur R.G. Solmssen.^[9][10]

On 4 January 1919 Salomonsohn died in Berlin, German Empire (present-day Germany) aged 87.^[1][3]