Alexander von Günzburg

Baron Alexander Moses von Günzburg (born April 24, 1863 in Paris , † around 1948 in Basel ) was director of Westersche Bank NV in Amsterdam.

Life

Günzburg was a member of the Günzburg Jewish-Russian banking family . He served as a cavalry officer in the Russian army. His father was Baron Horace von Günzburg ; his grandfather Baron Joseph von Günzburg .

He married Rosa Warburg in Hamburg . The marriage had eight children:

Anna (* 1892, † 1986), married to Salomon Halperin, lived in Paris;
Theodore (* 1893, † 1945), attaché at the Russian Embassy in Washington , married to Wilhelmina Ptasznik;
Olga (* 1897, † 1986), married to Ignacio Bauer, lived in Madrid;
Vera (* 1898, † 1971), married to Paul Dreyfus, lived in Basel;
Tatiana;
Marc (* 1903, † 1904);
Helene (* 1906), married to Alexandre Berline, lived in Paris;
Irene (* 1910), married to Dr. Robert Ary de Vries (left) , director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam .

He enjoyed his home education. Then he continued the family tradition with the bank IE Günzburg. In 1920 he went to Amsterdam, where Westersche Bank NV was founded and took over management.

goods

In St. Petersburg in 1885 he owned a partially gilded goblet ( gobelet ) with three embossed medallion heads between leaf tendrils, height: 9.2 cm. This was the work of the Augsburg goldsmith Johann Matthäus Rehm .

literature

Lorraine de Meaux: "The Gunzbergs - A Family Biography", Halban Publishers Ltd., London 2019, ISBN 978-1-905559-99-2

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personal data
SURNAME	Günzburg, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Günzburg, Baron Alexander Moses von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Director of Westersche Bank NV in Amsterdam
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	around 1948
Place of death	Basel

[iisg-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e iisg.nl - "Günzburg, Alexander, Baron de"

[geneanet-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c geneanet.org - Alexandre Moses de Günzburg

[Rosen1922-3] Rosenberg, Marc: "The goldsmith's mark", 3rd ed. Frankfurt, 1922, page 186, no.784.