Fritz M. Warburg

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Fritz Moritz Warburg (born March 12, 1879 in Hamburg ; † October 13, 1964 in Netzer Sereni , Israel ) was a German-Jewish banker and the youngest member of the Warburg banking dynasty . His brothers Paul Moritz Warburg , Max Moritz Warburg and Felix Moritz Warburg also worked as internationally renowned bankers and political advisers. Fritz M. Warburg's brother Aby Warburg was an art historian and founder of the renowned Warburg Institute in London .

Life

Fritz M. Warburg was the last of five sons in the family line of the Hamburg-Rotherbaum based middle -Warburgs of Moritz M. Warburg (1838-1910) and his wife, Charlotte Esther Warburg born, Oppenheim (1842–1921) born. His father managed the Hamburg MM Warburg & CO -Bank in the third generation. In 1908 he married the kindergarten teacher and teacher Anna Beata Warburg (1881–1967) from Stockholm, a second cousin. The three daughters emerged from the marriage: Ingrid Warburg Spinelli (1910–2000), Eva Warburg-Unger (1912–2016) and Charlotte Esther, called Noni (born 1922), after their marriage to Esther Shalmon.

After studying law with a doctorate in law at the University of Rostock , he moved to the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Frankfurt (Main) . From 1907 he became a partner in the Hamburg-based family-owned bank MM Warburg & CO , one of the largest private banks in Germany to this day. In the spring of 1915 during the First World War , Warburg was invited to the Stockholm branch as the representative of the German government for Sweden and Norway and met Knut Wallenberg , Hugo Stinnes and the Russian politician Alexander Protopopov . (A few years later, Max was sharply criticized by the anti-Semitic journalist Theodor Fritsch for his contribution.)

The Warburg family was also involved in social matters. Fritz Moritz Warburg was chairman of the Israelite Hospital in Hamburg from 1933 to 1938 . He was also a member of the board and at times chairman of the association of companies involved in metal trading in Hamburg.

After the Warburgs' private bank was "Aryanized" in May 1938, the Warburgs prepared to emigrate to Sweden. In the course of the November pogroms from 9./10. In November 1938, Fritz Moritz Warburg was arrested along with 1,000 Hamburg Jews and taken to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , where he was held until November 25th. The family then emigrated to the Swedish capital Stockholm and spent the following years there. Fritz M. Warburg spent the last years of his life in Israel.

Private library

Six volumes with his bookplate have been preserved from Fritz Moritz Warburg's private library. The Warburg library room is shown with a fireplace, armchair and bearskin, as is documented in a contemporary photo. The volumes were discovered in the course of the search for Nazi-looted property in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart .

literature

  • Ron Chernow: The Warburgs Odyssey of a Family , Munich 1996.
  • David Farrer: The Warburgs: the story of a family , New York 1975, pp. 121-125.
  • Sabine Hering (ed.): Jewish welfare in the mirror of biographies. Frankfurt / Main 2006, pp. 428-435.
  • Eckart Kleßmannt: MM Warburg & Co.: 1798–1998; the history of the bank , Hamburg 2004, p. 200.
  • Joist Grolle and Ina Lorenz : The exclusion of the Jewish members from the Association for Hamburg History. A long silent chapter of the Nazi era (with biographical appendix). In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 93, 2007, pp. 1–145 (about Warburg: pp. 137–139).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ron Chernow (1993) The Warburgs. A family saga, p. 179, 236, 272
  2. ^ Archives of the New York Times: Fritz M. Warburg of Banking House The New York Times, October 15, 1964
personal data
SURNAME Warburg, Fritz M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warburg, Fritz Moritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish banker and the youngest member of the important Hamburg banking dynasty Warburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1964
Place of death Netzer Sereni , Israel