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The Warburg family is a prominent German and American banking family of German Jewish and originally Venetian Jewish descent, noted for their varied accomplishments in biochemistry , botany , political activism , economics , investment banking , law , physics , classical music , art history , pharmacology , physiology , finance , private equity and philanthropy.

Warburg family today

They originated as the Venetian Jewish del Banco family, one of the wealthiest Venetian families in the early 16th century. The first known ancestor was Simon von Kassel — The family later established itself in Altona , near Hamburg in the 17th century, after the Thirty Years' War , and it was in Hamburg that M. Other banks created by members of the family include Warburg Pincus and S.

The family is traditionally divided into two prominent lines, the Alsterufer Warburgs and the Mittelweg Warburgs. Warburg — They took their nicknames from the brothers' respective addresses in Hamburg's Rotherbaum neighborhood. The brothers were grandsons of Moses Marcus Warburg.

Paul warburg rothschild

Eric Warburg's son Max Warburg Jr. Felix and Paul Warburg emigrated to the United States. There they became the two mainstays of the German-American branch, out of the five German born Warburg brothers. An American based, but internationally sound firm which at one time toyed with creating a branch abroad that was presumed would operate most efficiently with the aid of the families international connections.

Schiff , a banker who grew up in Frankfurt and had ties to the German Warburgs. Beginning with the marriage of Jacob Schiff in to Therese Loeb, a daughter of co-founder Solomon Loeb, becoming a full partner in the business firm shortly after.