Archives of the Sequester Rosenthal & Cie

Collection

Holding institution:: National Archives of Belgium 2 – Joseph Cuvelier Repository

Holding institution (official language):: Archives Générales du Royaume 2 – Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier

Scope and content:: These are the archives of a small stockbroker. They contain material typical for this profession, such as ledgers, registers and other types of bookkeeping and accounting records.

Administrative/biographical history:: Nathan Rosenthal was born in Bürgel, near Jena in Germany, in 1859. He migrated to Belgium in 1880 where he became active as a stockbroker around 1885. On 15 October 1911 he founded the society Rosenthal & Cie with stockbroker Joseph May. The society was a limited company with a capital of 50,000 Belgian francs, established for a period of ten years. The headquarters of the company was located in Brussels: in the rue du Marais until 1911, and afterwards at chaussée de Louvain 11. The company dealt with various banking, foreign exchange and stock market transactions, excluding pure speculation. Rosenthal & Cie ceased its activities in 1919 and was liquidated by the sequester in 1923. Nathan Rosenthal did not leave Belgium. After the sequestration of his company, he applied to obtain Belgian nationality. (C. Bulte & S. Soyez, Fonds van sekwesterarchieven – Fonds des archives des séquestres XII : Inventaire des archives des agents de change allemands (1879-1923), I 335-341, Bruxelles, ARA-AGR, 2002; Recueil des actes et documents relatifs aux sociétés commerciales. Annexes au Moniteur, 1911, no. 6393.)

Subject terms:: Financial matters; Financial matters--Banks, banking, and bankers; Financial records; Trade and commerce; World War I

Finding aids:: C. Bulte & S. Soyez, Fonds van sekwesterarchieven – Fonds des archives des séquestres XII : Inventaire des archives des agents de change allemands (1879-1923), I 335-341, Bruxelles, ARA-AGR, 2002.