Johann von Berenberg-Gossler
Baron Johann von Berenberg- Gossler( born 13 February 1839 in Hamburg, died 8 December 1913 in Hamburg; né Johann Gossler), known as" John," was a German banker from the city- state of Hamburg and owner and head of Berenberg Bank from 1879 until his death.
He was a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/ Gossler family and the son of banker Johann Heinrich Gossler( 1805 – 1879), grandson of banker and senator Johann Heinrich Gossler and great- grandson of banker Johann Hinrich Gossler.
His uncle was First Mayor and President of the Senate( head of state) Hermann Gossler.
His mother was Mary Elizabeth Bray( 1810 – 1886), a granddaughter of Samuel Eliot and a member of the Eliot family from Boston.
Known as" John Bi"( B pronounced in English) by his friends, he was a" Schöngeist".
He loved music and the theatre, and wanted to study languages, literature and history.
But his father had destined him to become a banker.
After apprenticeships in England, France, North and South America, he became an" associé" of his father's bank in 1864.
After the death of his father in 1879, he became head of Berenberg Bank.
In 1880, the Hamburg senate granted him the name of Berenberg- Gossler in recognition of the fact that he was the owner of the Berenberg Bank( the Berenberg family became extinct in the male line in 1773, but the Gosslers were descended from the family through the family's last member Elisabeth Berenberg married Gossler, who died in 1822).
In 1888, Johann Berenberg- Gossler was ennobled in the Kingdom of Prussia( although he was a citizen of Hamburg and not of Prussia) and conferred the title of Baron in 1910.
The ennoblement was controversial within his family and Hamburg high society, as nobility( which did not exist in Hamburg) was frowned upon by the staunchly republican Hamburg grand burghers.
His sister Susanne, married Amsinck, exclaimed" Aber John, unser guter Name!"
Johann von Berenberg- Gossler was less inclined to take risks than his father, and closed the bank's branches in New York City and Boston in 1880 and 1891 respectively.
At the time of his death, he was the second richest person in Hamburg.
He was the father of Senator and Ambassador John von Berenberg- Gossler( 1866 – 1943) and banker Baron Cornelius von Berenberg- Gossler( 1874 – 1953).
His son John von Berenberg- Gossler became a politician despite his father's wish that he would succeed him as head of the bank, and therefore had to give up his shares in the company.
He was succeeded as head of the bank and as Baron of Berenberg- Gossler( a title tied to the ownership of Gut Niendorf) by his younger son Cornelius von Berenberg- Gossler.
Heinrich von Berenberg-Gossler
Baron Heinrich von Berenberg- Gossler( 1907 – 1997) was a German banker, a member of the illustrious Berenberg- Gossler banking dynasty, and owner and head of Berenberg Bank.
He was the son of Baron Cornelius von Berenberg- Gossler and Nadia, née Oesterreich( 1887 – 1962), and the nephew of Senator and Ambassador John von Berenberg- Gossler.
In the 1930s, he worked for the Bank of London and South America in Buenos Aires.
He became a partner of Berenberg Bank in 1935 and later Chairman.
He was also consul general of Monaco.
Joachim von Berenberg-Consbruch
Hans- Joachim von Berenberg- Consbruch( born 5 November 1940 in Vienna), known as Hans- Joachim Consbruch from 1940 to 1976, is a German banker, who served as a personally liable partner at Berenberg Bank from 1978 to 2005.
He has also been a board member of the Berenberg Bank Foundation, a philanthropic foundation.
He is the honorary consul of Monaco in Hamburg.
Although he has worked for Berenberg Bank his entire career, he is not himself a member of, or descended from, the Berenberg family.
He is the son of Hans- Dietrich Wilhelm Consbruch and Irmgard Else Meyer.
His father, a middle class businessman, lived in Vienna at the time and died there in 1941.
In 1949 his mother remarried to Cornelius Johann Heinrich Hellmuth von Berenberg- Gossler, a member of the prominent Hanseatic Berenberg- Gossler banking family.
Hans- Joachim Consbruch, as he was known until 1976, studied law and then embarked on a career in the bank owned by his step- father's relatives.
In 1976, at the age of 36, Hans- Joachim Consbruch obtained permission from Hamburg authorities to change his name to" von Berenberg- Consbruch," thus combining his family name Consbruch with the first part of his stepfather's name, the name of the Berenberg family, which is extinct in the male line.
He has two sons, Fabian and John.
Hermann Gossler
Hermann Gossler( born 21 August 1802 in Hamburg, died 10 May 1877 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg lawyer, senator( 1842 – 77) and First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg( i.e. the city republic's head of state and head of government) in 1874.
He was Second Mayor in 1870, 1871 and 1873.
During much of his tenure as senator and his first term as Second Mayor, Hamburg was a fully sovereign country, while after 1871, the First Mayor as head of state of republican Hamburg was equal to the federal princes(" Bundesfürsten") within the German Empire.
As a senator, he also served as Lord of Police( Polizeiherr), the equivalent of a Minister of Police.
He belonged to the Hanseatic Berenberg- Gossler banking dynasty and was a son of the banker and senator Johann Heinrich Gossler( 1775 – 1842), co-owner of Joh. Berenberg, Gossler& Co, and the grandson of Johann Hinrich Gossler.
His brothers" Johann Heinrich Gossler"( 1805- 1879) and Wilhelm Gossler continued the firm.
His nephew Johann von Berenberg- Gossler was conferred Baronial rank in 1910.
Hermann Gossler studied law at the University of Heidelberg, and worked as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1826 to 1837.
He became Senate Secretary( roughly comparable to Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State) in 1837.
From 1838 to 1842, he was" Secretarius" of the High Court.
In 1842 he was elected Senator.
He was the father of" Emilie( Emmy) Helene Gossler"( 1838 – 1910), married to banker Georg Heinrich Kaemmerer.
John von Berenberg-Gossler
John von Berenberg-Gossler (22 October 1866 in Hamburg – 14 July 1943) was a Hamburg banker, politician and grand burgher.
He was elected Senator in Hamburg in 1908 and served as German Ambassador to Italy 1920–21.
He was a member of the Berenberg-Gossler banking dynasty and the son of Baron Johann von Berenberg-Gossler (1839–1913), owner of Berenberg Bank, who was ennobled in Prussia in 1888 and conferred Baronial rank in 1910.
His father had destined him to succeed him as head of the bank, and his election as Senator took place against the will of his father.
He was forced to sell his share of the bank, and his brother Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler succeeded their father as head of the bank.
He was head of the bank "Hamburger Bank von 1923" from 1923 to 1925.
Cornelius von Berenberg-Gossler
Baron Cornelius von Berenberg-Gossler (born 1874, died 1953) was a German banker, a member of the illustrious Berenberg-Gossler banking dynasty, and owner and head of Berenberg Bank from 1913.
He withdrew from active management of the bank in 1932.
Born as Cornelius Gossler, he was the son of Johann Berenberg Gossler (who was later ennobled as Baron von Berenberg-Gossler) and the brother of Senator and Ambassador John von Berenberg-Gossler.
Through his American-born grandmother he was a descendant of Samuel Eliot.
Although he was the younger brother, the leadership of Berenberg Bank as well as the Baronial title passed to him, as his older brother John chose to become a politician against the wish of their father.
He was married to Nadia von Oesterreich (1887–1962), a daughter of Constantin von Oesterreich, a member of a merchant and banking family in Hamburg originally from St. Petersburg in Russia.
They were the parents of Baron Heinrich von Berenberg-Gossler.
Cornelius von Berenberg-Gossler was an avowed opponent of the Nazi regime and determinedly sought to help Jewish friends and associates keeping their assets under the pressure of Aryanization, petitioned for their release when arrested and eventually helped them to leave the country.
In 1939, he secured the release of Fritz Warburg.
He was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Warentreuhand, that had been founded in 1920 by Max Warburg and Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy of Mendelssohn &
Co. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Universitäts-Gesellschaft Hamburg.
Elisabeth Berenberg
Elisabeth Berenberg (2 December 1749 – 16 January 1822) was a Hamburg heiress, merchant banker and a member of the Berenberg family.
She was the last male line member of the Flemish-origined Hanseatic Berenberg banking family in Hamburg, and ancestral mother of the "von Berenberg-Gossler" family, the current owners of Berenberg Bank.
She is also noted as the only woman ever to serve as a partner and take an active leadership role (1790–1800) at Berenberg Bank since the company was established in 1590 by her family.
Cornelius Jakhelln
Cornelius Jakhelln( born 31 August 1977 in Kristiansand), also known as Cornelius von Jackhelln, is a Norwegian vocalist, guitarist, musician, writer and poet.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Johann Heinrich Gossler
Johann Heinrich Gossler( born 28 March 1775, died 3 April 1842) was a Hamburg banker and grand burgher, a member of the Berenberg- Gossler- Seyler banking dynasty, a co-owner( from 1798) of the Berenberg Bank and a senator of Hamburg from 1821.
He was the son of Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg( 1749 – 1822), and the brother in law of Ludwig Erdwin Seyler.
He was the father of Hamburg First Mayor Hermann Gossler and the grandfather of Baron Johann von Berenberg- Gossler( 1839 – 1913).
He was also the great- grandfather of First Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard.

Question: Who is the father of Cornelius Von Berenberg-Gossler?
Answer: Johann von Berenberg-Gossler