Background
He was a son of the Hamburg merchant banker and senator Rudolf Berenberg (1680–1746) and Anna Elisabeth Amsinck (1690–1748), and a grandson of Cornelius Berenberg and of the Lisbon and Hamburg merchant Paul Amsinck.
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Johann Berenberg
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The bank still bears his name (Joh Berenberg, Gossler & Company). He was also noted as an art collector and held several public offices in the city-state of Hamburg. He was also a great-grandson of the scholar Rudolf Capell, and was descended from the Welser family.
An extensive list of his ancestors is included in the Hamburgisches Geschlechterbuch.
At the age of 17 he was sent to Venice, where he learnt his trade as an apprentice in a Venice firm between 1735 and 1741. His father had started his career as an apprentice in the same firm.
He also held numerous honorary offices in Hamburg. In the same year senator Paul Berenberg died without heirs.
After Johann Berenberg"s death three years later, Johann Hinrich Gossler succeeded him as the company"s head and sole owner.
Membership
Hence Johann Berenberg"s daughter Elisabeth Berenberg remained as the only heir and last surviving member of the Berenberg family.
