Daniel Guggenheim (industrialist)

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Daniel Guggenheim (1910)

Daniel Guggenheim (born July 9, 1856 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † September 28, 1930 in Port Washington , New York ) was an American industrialist and philanthropist .

His main philanthropic interests - along with his wife Florence - were social welfare in general, the development of aviation and the bandstand at New York's Lincoln Center (1966).

Daniel Guggenheim was Meyer Guggenheim's second-born son . His sons Meyer and Harry became ambassadors of the United States .

literature

  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 262.