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The Warburg family is a prominent German and American banking family of German Jewish and originally Venetian Jewish descent noted for their varied accomplishments in biochemistry, botany, political activism, economics, investment banking, law, physics, classical music, art history, pharmacology, physiology, finance, private equity, and philanthropy.
They are thought to have originated as the Venetian Jewish del Banco family, Anselmo and Abraham Ha Levi Kahana de Palenzuela from Spain, one of the wealthiest Sephardic German families in the early 16th century. Following restrictions imposed on banking and the Jewish community, they moved to Bologna, and thence to Warburg, in Germany, in the 16th century, after which they later took their name. The first known ancestor was Simon שמעון von Cassel (1500 - 1566).
The family later established itself in Altona, near Hamburg in the 17th century, after the Thirty Years' War, and it was in Hamburg that M. M. Warburg & Co. was established in 1798, among the oldest still existing investment banks in the world. Other banks created by members of the family include M.M.Warburg & Co.; Warburg Pincus; and S. G. Warburg & Co., renamed UBS Warburg in 1995, following its acquisition by UBS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_family
Noteworthy members
- Moses Warburg (1763–1830), founder, with his brother Gerson Warburg (1765–1825), of M. M. Warburg & Co. in 1798.
- Sara Warburg (1805–1884) married to Abraham Samuel Warburg (1798–1856), her cousin
- Rosa Schiff (1833–1908), married to Paul Schiff, director of the Creditanstalt of Vienna
- Siegmund Warburg (1835–1889), married to Simone Theophilie Rifka Tova Warburg
- Abraham Samuel Warburg (1864–1933)
- Georg Gabriel Warburg (1871–1923)
- Siegmund George Warburg (1902–1982), founder of S. G. Warburg & Co, London
- Moritz M. Warburg (1838–1910), married to Charlotte Oppenheim
- Aby Warburg (1866–1929), German art historian
- Max M. Warburg (1867–1946), banker
- Eric M. Warburg (1900–1990), founder of Warburg Pincus, married to Dorothea Thorsch (1912–2003)
- Max Warburg (b.1948)
- Marie Warburg, married to Michael Naumann (b.1941), journalist
- Paul M. Warburg (1868–1932), father of the Federal Reserve, married Nina Loeb (1863–1912) in 1895, the daughter of Solomon Loeb
- James Warburg (1897–1969), economist, banker, advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt, married to Kay Swift (1897–1993)
- Andrea Swift Warburg, married to Sidney Kaufman.
- Katharine Kaufman Weber (b.1955), novelist, married to Nicholas Fox Weber.
- Bettina Warburg (1900-1990) psychiatrist.
- Katharine Warburg (1870–1935), married to Isaac Dorfman (1868–1929), philanthropist, banker.
- Felix M. Warburg (1871–1937), New York banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co., philanthropist, married Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), daughter of Jacob H. Schiff and granddaughter of Solomon Loeb in 1895.
- Carola Warburg Rothschild (1896–1987), married to Walter N. Rothschild, son of Simon F. Rothschild
- Walter N. Rothschild Jr.
- Phyllis Rothschild Peters Farley
- Carol Rothschild Bradford Noyes, married Amory Howe Bradford (d. 1998), son of Arthur Howe Bradford; married 1965 to diplomat Charles P. Noyes
- David A. Bradford
- Carola Bradford Lea
- Madhavi Bradford
- Deborah Bradford
- Peter A. Bradford, married Katherine Bradford
- Arthur Bradford
- Laura Rothschild Bradford Kirkpatrick
- Frederick Marcus Warburg (1897–1973), married to Wilma L. Shannon
- Gerald Felix Warburg (c.1902–1971), well-known cellist and conductor, married Natica Nast (1905–1987), daughter of Condé Nast
- Paul Felix Warburg (c.1904–1965)
- Edward Warburg (1908–1992), philanthropist and benefactor of the arts, married to Mary Warburg (1908–2009)
- David Warburg
- Ian Warburg, married to Jane Green (1968–) author, philanthropist.
- Daphne Warburg (b. 1949), married to Michael Ramon Langhorne Astor, eldest son of Jakie Astor.
- Olga Warburg (1872–1895)
- Fritz M. Warburg (1879–1962) living in Stockholm during World War I and II, father of Eva Warburg who organized Kindertransport to Sweden in 1938 and -39.
- Louisa Warburg (1879–1973), married to Julius Derenberg (1873–1928)
- Walter Julius Derenberg (1903–1975), legal scholar
Relatives
- Emil Gabriel Warburg, (1846–1931), German physicist
- Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883–1970), physiologist and biochemist (Nobel prize in Medicine, 1931)
- Otto Warburg (1859–1938), botanist and president of the Zionist Organisation