Warburg family

The Warburg family is a German - Jewish banking family. The Warburgs moved in the 16th century, still under the surname del Banco from Bologna to Warburg first and then in the 17th century to Altona on the Elbe.

The earliest known ancestor was Simon von Cassel, who died around 1566. The brothers Moses Marcus Warburg and Gerson Warburg founded in 1798 which continues to this day existing bank MM Warburg & CO.

Eric Warburg's son Max Warburg (not to be confused with Max Moritz Warburg ( 1867-1946 ) ) is currently one of the three partners of MM Warburg & CO.

Siegmund George Warburg ( a great-great- grandson of Moses Warburg ) founded in London in 1946, the investment bank SG Warburg & Co. Siegmund's second cousin, Eric Warburg, founded in 1938 in New York Warburg Pincus.

Family structure

Alsterufer - and middle - branch

The family is divided traditionally into two branches, the banks of the Alster - Warburg and the middle - Warburg. The Alsterufer - Warburg descended from Siegmund Warburg (1835-1889) and the middle - Warburg by his brother Moritz M. Warburg ( 1838-1910 ). These names refer to the residence of the family. The two brothers were Moritz Siegmund and grandson of Moses Marcus Warburg. Siegmund George Warburg comes from the banks of the Alster - branch; the five Warburg brothers Abraham ( Aby ), Max, Paul, Felix and Fritz Moritz Warburg were the sons of Moritz M. Warburg.

American and German Warburgs

A member of the family in the United States was Felix M. Warburg. He was a banker and philanthropist; his home in New York City now houses the Jewish Museum. Another American Warburg was Paul Warburg, father of the Federal Reserve System.

The German branch of the family includes Max Warburg, one of the founders of IG Farben. At the outbreak of the Second World War, all Jewish members from the board of IG Farben were expelled. Almost all of the Warburg family had fled to 1938 in the United States or Great Britain. Two cousins ​​, however, mother and daughter Gerta and Betty Warburg, stayed until 1940 in Altona, were arrested by the Nazis and died in the Sobibor extermination camp. Eric Warburg, son of Max Warburg, returned to Germany and took great impact on the restoration of Germany's reputation after the Second World War. According to him, the Eric M. Warburg Prize of the Atlantic Bridge is named. Eric's son, after his grandfather also named Max, is now a partner of MM Warburg & CO in Hamburg; his daughter Marie is the second wife of journalist Michael Naumann.

Family members

  • Moses Marcus Warburg (1763-1830), banker
  • Gershon Warburg (1765-1826), his brother
  • Moritz Warburg (1810-1886), lawyer, politician, 1848-1850 Member of the Constituent Assembly for Schleswig -Holstein
  • Abraham Warburg, Warburg Sara. Children and Others: Siegmund Warburg, Moritz M. Warburg
  • Pius Warburg (1816-1900), German banker, art collector and patron
  • Moritz M. Warburg (1838-1910), banker, married to Charlotte Esther Oppenheim (1842-1921); Parents of Abraham M., Max M., Paul M., Felix M., Olga (* 1873), Fritz M. and Louisa (* 1879) Warburg, the third generation after Moses Marcus Warburg; Moritz M. Warburg is the founder of the middle branch of the family in Hamburg
  • Abraham Moritz Warburg (1866-1929), art historian, independent scholar, eldest brother of Max, Paul, Felix and Fritz Warburg; the fourth generation / great-grandson of Moses Marcus Warburg ( middle branch). Aby Warburg married Mary Hertz, an artist ( and Christian ). He was the first Warburg, who married not Jewish.
  • Max Moritz Warburg (1867-1946), banker. His son Eric M. Warburg (1900-1990), banker.
  • Paul Moritz Warburg (1868-1932), creator of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Marriage 1895 Nina Loeb ( 1870-1945 ). Son, James Paul Warburg (1897-1969), advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Felix Moritz Warburg (1871-1937), a banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co, New York, and philanthropist. Marriage 1895 Frieda Schiff ( 1875-1958 ), son of Gerald Warburg, Cellist.
  • Fritz Moritz Warburg (1879-1962)
  • Siegmund Warburg (1835-1889), brother of Moritz M. Warburg (1838-1910) ( founder of Alsterufer branch )
  • Abraham S. Warburg, son of Siegmund Warburg
  • George Gabriel Warburg (1871-1923), son of Siegmund Warburg, father of George Siegmund Warburg
  • Siegmund George Warburg (1902-1982), founder of SG Warburg & Co, London, Great-great- grandson of Moses Marcus Warburg (from the Alsterufer branch of the Warburg )

Facilities

  • MM Warburg & CO Bank in Hamburg, founded by Moses Marcus Warburg and Gerson Warburg
  • Warburg Institute, succession Institute of Cultural Research Library
  • Cultural Research Library Warburg, founded by Aby Warburg
  • Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm founded by Eric Warburg
  • SG Warburg & Co., London-based investment bank, founded by Siegmund George Warburg
  • Warburg -Haus Hamburg, Foundation
  • Atlantic Bridge, mitbegründeter by Eric M. Warburg lobbying organization
  • Eric M. Warburg Prize, political award of Atlantic Bridge
  • Aby M. Warburg Award, Science Award of the City of Hamburg
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