majority of the family decides otherwise.
It is assumed that there will be no legal inventory and publication of assets.
The Uprising led by Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Mayer Amschel's son Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who emigrated to England in 1799, played a key role in the formation of the largest European financial institution. Nathan Rothschild spent the first ten years in the UK, mainly in the newly industrialized northern region of England, where he bought textiles and exported them to Germany. He started banking only in 1811 and was partly due to the fact that most of the electorate's assets were British government bonds. However, the annual interest on them was paid in London and could only be transferred to the electorate with great difficulty as a result of the war and the continental blockade. The Continental Blockade was an economic blockade of the British Isles, declared by Napoleon in Berlin on November 21, 1806 and in effect until 1814. Nathan received a contract in 1809 to reinvest the interest payments due during the war due to limited funds transfer options.
Nathan Rothschild was also able to offer his services in paying the British troops. However, the British government had sufficient financial resources through the sale of bonds. However, in the countries where their troops fought, British funds were not accepted, so the government was forced to supply its commander Wellington with gold coins. The contract for the purchase of coins was concluded with Nathan Rothschild in January 1814. At that time, the Rothschild house already had connections all over Europe. However, the deal was a difficult financial and logistical task for the Rothschilds. The risk was paid for with commissions ranging from two to six percent of the funds raised. According to the estimate of the then British Treasurer John Charles Herries, by June 1814, the coins purchased and transferred on behalf of the British Crown amounted to about 12.6 million francs.
When on March 1, 1815, Napoleon was able to escape from exile on the island of Elba and return to Paris at the head of the army sent to meet him (March 20, 1815), the House of Rothschild again began buying gold throughout Europe for British troops. At the same time, Nathan Mayer Rothschild proceeded from the assumption that the coming war, like all previous Napoleonic wars, would last a long time. Initially, Napoleon also achieved some success, but with the defeat at Waterloo on June 18, 1815, the reign of the Hundred Days and, consequently, Napoleon's power in Europe ended. The gold accumulated by the Rothschilds as a result of an incorrect valuation threatened to depreciate, which led to financial losses for the house. To prevent this, Nathan Rothschild used gold to buy British government bonds. He suggested that after the end of the war and the reduction of financial needs, fewer British bonds would also be issued, which would lead to higher prices for bonds already placed. Since most investors at that time feared a British defeat, Nathan Mayer Rothschild was able to buy British government bonds cheaply. Rothschild's assumption was correct, and by the time he sold the securities two years later, they had risen by more than 40 percent. According to Niall Ferguson, thanks to this business, the Rothschild house made a profit that in 2009 would have been equivalent to 600 million British pounds.
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