Horace Günzburg

Naphtali Herz ( Horace ) Günzburg ( born February 8, 1833 in Swenyhorodka; † March 2, 1909 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian banker.

Günzburg was director of, founded by his father, Joseph Günzburg Bank, which was one of the main financial institutions in Russia, among other things, he managed the financial affairs of Grand Duke Ludwig III. of Hesse- Darmstadt, who appointed him Consul-General (1868-1872) in Russia. This was the only time that the Russian government agreed to the appointment of a Jew.

The Russian government appointed Günzburg turn to the State Council. Günzburg strove successfully thanks to its relations with the aristocracy and authorities to improve the situation of the Russian Jews. He was knighted in 1872 by the Grand Duke of Hesse.

The Günzburg- Bank provided its business in 1892 in Russia due to a crisis in the Russian Banking a.

Baron Günzburg, who was until 1892 the St. Petersburg councilman, was among other things, President of the St. Petersburg Jewish community and the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia. An emigration of Jews from Russia, he refused, and as Chairman of the Russian Committee of the Jewish Colonization Association, he urged that the funds from the Hirsch funds were used for the promotion of agriculture and handicrafts among the Jews in Russia.