Guggenheim (family)

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The Guggenheim family is an American industrial family that comes from the Swiss town of Lengnau and at times dominated the global market for copper, silver and lead. The name is derived from the Alsatian village of Gougenheim .

Family history

The American line of the Guggenheims goes back to Simon Guggenheim (1792–1869), who came from Lengnau in the Swiss canton of Aargau . Lengnau and the neighboring town of Endingen were the only places where Jews were allowed to settle in Switzerland in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1847 he emigrated to the USA with his second wife and children. With his only son Meyer Guggenheim , he set up a trading company in Philadelphia . A silver mine that Meyer Guggenheim acquired in 1881 laid the foundation for a powerful mining company that at times controlled up to 80% of the world's production of copper, silver and lead.

Family members

Meyer Guggenheim (1828–1905)
  • Meyer Guggenheim (1828–1905) ⚭ Barbara Myers (1834–1900)
    • Isaac Guggenheim (1854–1922) ⚭ Carrie Sonneborn (* 1859)
      • Beulah V. Guggenheim (1877–1960)
      • Edith B. Guggenheim (1880–1960)
      • Helene Guggenheim (1886–1962) ⚭ Edmund L. Haas
    • Daniel Guggenheim (1856–1930) ⚭ Florence Schloss (* 1863)
    • Murray Guggenheim (1858–1939) ⚭ Leonie Bernheim (1865–1959)
      • Edmond A. Guggenheim (1888–1972) ⚭ Marion Price (1888–?)
      • Lucille Guggenheim (1894–1972)
    • Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1949), industrialist, founder of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation ⚭ Irene M. Rothschild (* 1868)
      • Eleanor May Guggenheim (* 1896)
      • Gertrude R. Guggenheim (1898–1966)
      • Barbara Josephine Guggenheim (* 1904)
    • Benjamin Guggenheim (1865–1912), industrialist ⚭ Florette Seligman (1870–1937)
    • Robert G. Guggenheim (1867–1876) twin brother of Simon, died as a child
    • Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), businessman and US Senator, founder of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ⚭ Olga Hirsch (* 1877)
      • John Simon Guggenheim (1905-1922)
      • George Guggenheim (* 1907)
    • William B. Guggenheim (1868–1941)
    • Rose Guggenheim (1871–1945) ⚭ Albert Loeb
      • Harold A. Loeb (* 1891)
      • Edwin M. Loeb (* 1894)
      • Willard E. Loeb (* 1896)
    • Cora Guggenheim (1873–1956) ⚭ Louis F. Rothschild (* 1869)
      • Louis F. Rothschild, Jr. (1900-1902)
      • Muriel B. Rothschild (* 1903)
      • Gwendolyn F. Rothschild Guggenheim (* 1906) ⚭ Charles Demeuron (* 1902)
        • Alexander Guggenheim (* 1941) ⚭ Celine Louise van der Brink (* 1948)
          • Cédric Guggenheim (* 1981)

literature

  • John H. Davis: The Guggenheims. From robber barons to human friends Swiss publishing house, Zurich 1984. (American original edition: The Guggenheims. An American Epic . New York 1978)
  • Josef Heinzelmann: The origin of the Guggenheim . In: Archives for family history research . Volume 1, 1997, pp. 113-118.
  • Peter Stein, Werner Frank: The search for the origin of the copper Guggenheim . In: Maajan, Journal for Jewish Family Research . Issue 79, June 2006, p. 2765.
  • Irwin Unger, Debi Unger: The Guggenheims - a family history . Harper Collins, New York 2005, ISBN 0-06-018807-3 .
  • Ralph Weingarten: Guggenheim. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralph Weingarten: Guggenheim. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 20, 2007 , accessed June 7, 2019 . Another line represents z. B. the Hamburg merchant Abraham Gugenheim (+ 1766), the father-in-law of Moses Mendelssohn , with origins from Worms .
  2. ↑ The American Money Aristocracy: A Political History of Wealth in the United States. ISBN 3-593-37312-2 , p. 345.
  3. ↑ John H. Davis: The Guggenheims. From robber knights to human friends. Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1984, p. 223 ff. (American original edition: The Guggenheims. An American Epic. New York 1978)

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