Ferdinand Eberstadt (mayor)
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Ferdinand Falk Eberstadt was a businessman and liberal politician in Worms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, who became the first Jewish mayor in Germany.
Worms Synagogue.
Germania, an allegorical painting hung in the Frankfurt Parliament during the Revolution of 1848.
First train station at Worms, built in 1853.
Eberstadt's daughter Elizabeth, who became Lady Lewis, in a painting by John Singer Sargent, 1892
Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Baronet was an English lawyer of Jewish extraction.
Ferdinand Eberstadt (mayor)
…Eberstadt (ca. 1830–ca. 1907), who took over management of Ferd. Eberstadt und Cie. Elizabeth Eberstadt (1844–1931), married the distinguished solicitor Sir George Lewis, 1st Baronet. Bertha Hirsch (1850–1913), a noted patron of the arts…
Portrait of Sir George Lewis, John Singer Sargent, 1896
"an astute lawyer". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1876.