Guggenheim family
The Guggenheim family is an American family of industrialists, who comes from the Swiss Lengnau and at times dominated the global market for copper, silver and lead. The name is derived from the Alsatian village Gougenheim.
The American line goes back to the Guggenheim Simon Guggenheim (1792-1869), who came from Lengnau in the Swiss canton of Aargau. Lengnau and the neighboring Endingen were the only places in which Jews were permitted to settle in the 18th and 19th century in Switzerland. In 1847 he emigrated with his second wife and his children in the United States. With his only son Meyer Guggenheim he built in Philadelphia in a trading company. A silver mine, Meyer Guggenheim acquired in 1881, laid the foundation for a powerful mining group, which at times dominated up to 80 % of the world production of copper, silver and lead.
Members of the family
- Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905) oo Barbara Myers (1834-1900) Isaac Guggenheim (1854-1922) oo Carrie Sonneborn (* 1859) Beulah V. Guggenheim (1877-1960)
- Edith B. Guggenheim (1880-1960)
- Helene Guggenheim (1886-1962) oo Edmund L. Haas
- Meyer Robert Guggenheim (1885-1959)
- Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971), diplomat, co-founder of the newspaper Newsday
- Edmond A. Guggenheim (1888-1972) oo Marion Price (1888 -? )
- Lucille Guggenheim (1894-1972)
- Eleanor May Guggenheim (* 1896)
- Gertrude R. Guggenheim (1898-1966)
- Barbara Guggenheim Josephine (* 1904)
- Benita Rosalind Guggenheim (1895-1927)
- Marguerite ' Peggy ' Guggenheim (1898-1979), art patron, collector and gallery owner
- Barbara Hazel Guggenheim (1903-1995)
- John Simon Guggenheim (1905-1922)
- George Guggenheim (* 1907)
- Harold A. Loeb (* 1891)
- Edwin M. Loeb (* 1894)
- Willard E. Loeb (* 1896)
- Louis F. Rothschild, Jr. (1900-1902)
- Muriel B. Rothschild ( * 1903)
- Gwendolyn F. Rothschild Guggenheim (* 1906) oo Charles Demeuron (* 1902) Guggenheim Alexander (* 1941) oo Celine Louise van der Brink ( b. 1948 ) Cédric Guggenheim (* 1981)