Kilian von Steiner

Kilian von Steiner (9 October 1833 - 25 September 1903) was a German banker and industrialist. Born in Laupheim as the eighth child of Jewish merchant Viktor Steiner and his wife Sophie, Kilian Steiner spent his youth in the small Upper Swabian town. The family on his father's side had been residents in Laupheim since approximately 1750. He attended secondary school in Ulm and Stuttgart, after which he went on to go to university to study history... more

Kilian von Steiner (9 October 1833 - 25 September 1903) was a German banker and industrialist. Born in Laupheim as the eighth child of Jewish merchant Viktor Steiner and his wife Sophie, Kilian Steiner spent his youth in the small Upper Swabian town. The family on his father's side had been residents in Laupheim since approximately 1750. He attended secondary school in Ulm and Stuttgart, after which he went on to go to university to study history, philophy and law at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg. After graduating in 1859, he settled as a solicitor in Heilbronn where he met and became a life-long friend of economist Gustav Schmoller. Together with political friends, one of whom was Gustav Siegle, Steiner was one of the founding members of the National Liberal Party in 1865, a party committed to the so-called Kleindeutsche Lösung (Lesser German Solution) and to the unifying policy of Otto von Bismarck. Steiner was among the most prominent members of economic life in 19th... less