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
Web links
- ↑ a b c d e iisg.nl - "Günzburg, Alexander, Baron de"
- ↑ a b c geneanet.org - Alexandre Moses de Günzburg
- ↑ Rosenberg, Marc: "The goldsmith's mark", 3rd ed. Frankfurt, 1922, page 186, no.784.
- jodeninnederland.nl - Database Joods Biografisch Woordenboes - Joden in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw: "Gunzberg, Alexander de"
- Image of Baron Alexander Moses v. Gunzburg, painted by Georges Rabinovitch, 1943
personal data | |
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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 |