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  Warburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warburg is a city in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the district Höxter.
In 1975 the Warburg District merged with the Höxter District.
The perhaps most prominent Warburg was Paul Warburg (1868-1932), a persuasive advocate of central banking in the United States and intellectual father of the Federal Reserve System, who in 1914 was appointed to the first Federal Reserve Board by US President Woodrow Wilson and became its second vice-chairman in 1916.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warburg   (272 words)

  
 Aby Warburg (1866-1929). The Survival of an Idea
Warburg was now able to draw on his abundant account of methods and links; he demonstrated that the structure of all paintings follows a certain zodiacal scheme that is based on oriental visual and literal sources.
Warburg did not describe the development of the arts or the history of Western culture; he was looking for the meaning and the functions of art for different societies, their role for different social classes and the energy of cultural memory they preserve.
Warburg used his "laboratory of the mind" (so he said) to cure the world from the ignorances of its heritage, making the reader in his lecture room a "patient" to be cured from narrow-mindedness, from the defects of western culture and psychic dependence.
www.educ.fc.ul.pt /hyper/resources/mbruhn   (5264 words)

  
 Biography
Various members of the family had great expectations of Aby: Sarah, his grandmother, wanted him to become a Rabbi, his father Moritz to inherit the M. Warburg Bank, and his mother, Charlotte, to be a lawyer.
Warburg is one of the promoters of the International Conference on art history held in Rome.
Warburg has a mental breakdown, and suffers from phobias, obsessions, and hallucinations which in 1919 lead him to be hospitalised in Doctor Binswanger’s clinic, in Kreuzlingen.
www.engramma.it /warburg/scritti/inglese/testi/biografiaing.html   (1914 words)

  
 History-Our-Jewish-Ancestors-1978.page
Marriages through the nineteenth century were ordinarily arranged, and as a result there was a considerable amount of intermarriage within the rabbinical families; by the same token the well-to-do business classes dealt with each other, and their sons and daughters were often paired off.
Oppenheim is an old Jewish family name, with records going far back; the relationship of our branch to others of this name, or Oppenheimers, isn’t always entirely clear NHF and her mother, Didi, had some contact with Oppe and Saalfeld relatives on this branch.
The family may have originally come from Spain and Italy, with the earliest identified ancestor coming from the German city of Cassel and settling in the Westphalian village of Warburg in the 16th century.
www.friedrichs.us /History-Our-Jewish-Ancestors-1978.html   (2090 words)

  
 Aby-Warburg-Stiftung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From this inquiry, Warburg was led to ask what the Florentines of his chosen period saw in antiquity, and why symbols created in a pagan context reappeared with renewed vitality in fifteenth-century Italy.
The further development of the Institute, especially after Warburg's death in 1929, was guided by Saxl, whose interests ranged over the history of art and religion, from the study of Mithraic monuments and astrological manuscripts to Rembrandt and Velázquez.
After the rise of the Nazi régime, Saxl accepted the invitation of an adhoc committee to transfer the Institute to London where, with the support of Lord Lee of Fareham, Samuel Courtauld and the Warburg family, it was installed in Thames House in 1934, moving to the Imperial Institute Buildings, South Kensington, in 1937.
www.warburg-haus.hamburg.de /texte/london.html   (457 words)

  
 The Warburgs
The American Warburgs did not establish a major financial business in their own name, but they were successful enough to become leading philanthropists, patrons of the arts, and political advisers.
The underlying narrative of The Warburgs is of a twentieth-century Exodus.
He supplies a lively and dramatic account of family ups and downs, but says curiously little about events at the office‹how the family banks were run, how much money they made and how they made it, what special role they played in modern financial systems.
www.sfu.ca /~delany/warburg.htm   (1885 words)

  
 Warburg Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Warburg family is a German family of bankers.
Warburg family Family of eminent bankers, philanthropists, and scholars.
Warburg Family a family whose members were eminent in banking, philanthropy, and scholarship.
www.warburgfamily.info   (785 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Warburgs, by Ron Chernow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sarna, Jonathan D. The history of the Warburg family begins modestly enough in the 16th century when one Simon von Cassel (d.
...The Warburgs, he contends, embodied the essence of that community: [T]hey exhibited all the enter- prise, daring, and philanthropy of the Jewish community in Germany...
...For one thing, it ignores the fact that two of the Warburg brothers, Paul and Felix, settled permanently in America prior to World War I. By 1939 both were dead, and several of their children had intermarried...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V97I2P63-1.htm   (1678 words)

  
 The Warburgs (review)
Because the Warburg family fortune was built on financing international trade, Max Warburg naturally sought to encourage the growth of such trade.
The Warburgs were skeptical of Zionism, though, fearing that a Jewish state would supplant the traditional organizations, which they headed, as the nexus of Jewish political power.
Marietta Warburg lived unmolested and in relative comfort in a suburb of Hamburg with her non-Jewish (and anti-Nazi) husband.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v15/v15n5p33_Weir.html   (2977 words)

  
 AlbertaFirst.com - Warburg
Warburg welcomes you with open arms and looks forward to having your ideas and participation in making it an even better place to live.
Warburg is served by a volunteer fire department and 4 trucks [Tel: 780-848-2311].
Warburg is served by the Thorsby detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [RCMP] [Tel: 780-789-3950 or 780-789-3951].
www.albertafirst.com /profiles/statspack/20591.html   (1024 words)

  
 About the District
Yet, it was said to be "relaxed and rustic." For the birth of her son, Edward, Frieda sent a horse and buggy to White Plains Hospital for a doctor.
The Warburg family maintained their strong tradition of philanthropy at "Woodlands." Every summer, the family's friend, Lillian Wald, brought poor children from the Lower East Side to "Woodlands" for a picnic on the polo field.
Greenburgh Central 7, as it is commonly called, is composed of Hartsdale, a portion of White Plains and several streets in Elmsford with a total area of 8 square miles and with a population of approximately 20,000 residents.
www.greenburgh.k12.ny.us /about.html   (766 words)

  
 Germany Info: Government & Politics: Statements & Speeches
Eric Warburg, a member of the prominent Warburg banking family, fled Germany for the United States in 1938 and later served in the U.S. Army.
The presentation of the fifth Eric M. Warburg Prize to Chancellor Helmut Kohl is an extraordinary moment in the history of the Altlantik Brücke.
And always ahead of his time, he became the youngest co-founder of the CDU youth chapter at age 17, the youngest deputy to the state legislature in Mainz at age 39, the youngest state premier in post-war Germany when he was elected prime minister of his native Rhineland-Palatinate.
www.germany-info.org /relaunch/politics/speeches/061896.html   (4137 words)

  
 The Warburgs : The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family - CHERNOW, RON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Warburgs were Hamburg's preeminent banking family from the 18th century until Hitler's Third Reich forced them to hand over their business to Aryans in 1938.
From their origins as 16th-Century "Court Jews" in North Germany, the Warburg family and its business rose with the unification of Germany and the expanding global economy; two sons married into New York City's German-Jewish "Our Crowd." Both in Germany and in the United States, the Warburgs maintained the "Panglossian".
Ron Chernow's hugely fascinating history is a group portrait of a clan whose members were renowned for their brilliance, culture, and personal energy yet tragically vulnerable to the dark and irrational currents of the twentieth century.
www.antiqbook.com /boox/she/210.shtml   (543 words)

  
 Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation
The book swarms with dozens and dozens of names of the various branches of the family, whose ancestry is traced back some 400 years, but the author shows ignorance of some of the profound contributions to Jewish life in Germany made by certain members of the family over a period of more than 100 years.
No doubt many of the Warburgs are worthy of being the subjects of biographies, but I have decided to be very selective as to which personality among them I should highlight.
Sara Warburg, the matriarch of the dynasty which meant so much in Germany and America, is pictured in the book as a strong-willed, extremely capable woman, who kept her grandsons in disciplined regime and led them on the road to becoming enormously successful.
www.manfredlehmann.com /sieg241.html   (1923 words)

  
 Timeline of Treason: The Bush Family Connection to the Nazis
Max Warburg selected by Prescott Bush to be the American Ship and Commerce Line official representative on the board of the Hamburg- Amerika Line.
Warburg was a long time advisor of Hjalmar Schacht, the Nazi’s Economic Minister and an executive in the Reichsbank.
Warburg was also a close friend with Montagu Collet Norman.
www.spiritone.com /~gdy52150/timeline.html   (3700 words)

  
 The Warburgs : The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
From Imperial and then Weimar Germany, the Warburgs were integral to achieving the ends of their leaders; Max Warburg worked tirelessly up until the very end, to secure a peaceful neutralization of Hitler's intention for the Jews.
And logically, from this family where ambivalence toward Judaeism was an on-going theme, there were inevitable struggles and betrayals during the seeding and conceptualization of an Israeli sovereign state.
Richly documented by Warburg family archival and oral sources, the study captures both the glory and folly of this family of grandees, whose remarkable impact on the world of international finance, politics, culture, philanthropy, and Zionism continues to resonate.
www.jakanoka.com /pub/bo0679743596.html   (881 words)

  
 CHAPTER TEN: The Myth of "Sidney Warburg"
In Germany Max Warburg was a director of I.G. Farben and in the United States brother Paul Warburg (father of James Paul Warburg) was a director of American I.G. Farben.
Warburg contacted von Heydt and a further meeting was arranged, this time with an "undistinguished looking man, introduced to me under the name Frey." Instructions were given to make $10 million available at the Mendelsohn and Co. Bank in Amsterdam, Holland.
Warburg reported this offer to Hitler, who requested the $5 million should be sent to the Banca Italiana in Rome and (although the report does not say so) presumably the other $2 million was paid to Dusseldorf.
reformed-theology.org /html/books/wall_street/chapter_10.htm   (5406 words)

  
 Doessel - from the history-book of a german village - a virtual exhibition - The von Geismar family on Riepen Manor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Riepen Manor and the noble family von Geismar were very much bound up with the history of Doessel.
As early as the year 1200 the family von Geismar in the wake of noble castlemen was already resident in Warburg where they belonged to the leading families of the town.
Another famous member of the Riepen family lineage was the russian General Friedrich Caspar von Geismar.
www.warburg.net /doessel/expo/egeismar.htm   (401 words)

  
 Transfer to England
There are many cases of escapes of individuals from authoritarian countries, but few of institutes and centres of learning and research moving in their entirety from unfriendly to friendly shores; for such a successful transplantation requires foresight and teamwork.
Max M. Warburg, the brother of the founder, agreed that an attempt should be made to move the Institute with all its human and physical assets to a country in which the atmosphere was conducive to research and learning; and once this, for him, very grave decision was taken he gave it his full backing.
The Warburg Institute was a foundation partly supported by American members of the founder's family.
www.sas.ac.uk /warburg/mnemosyne/history.htm   (1595 words)

  
 HeritageQuest joins the Chaplin's ancestral pursuit in Warburg, Germany
We drove through the Hochsauerland of north central Germany on this beautiful day, heading toward the town of Warburg where we planned to pursue the history of the Warburg family.
The family left Warburg and took the name of the town as their own name when they settled in Hamburg.
After we were shown other historic landmarks of the lower part of town, we thanked Alfons for his time and left Warburg, bound for other towns where we would be pursuing Ann's ancestral roots from her Theopold line.
www.heritagequest.com /genealogy/europe/html/chaplin.html   (343 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
When Frieda Schiff Warburg donated the Warburg family home in 1944 to house The Jewish Museum, she made an extraordinary gift to the Jewish community and the art world.
Warburg shared the commitment of her father and husband and left a legacy to benefit countless generations.
We are tremendously proud to have created The Warburg Society to honor the Warburgs and those with the foresight to follow in their footsteps by remembering The Jewish Museum in their estate and gift plans.
www.jewishmuseum.org /home/content/join/warburg.txt   (254 words)

  
 The Breuer Family Background
Her nephew Sussman Gans was the father of Salman Gans who married into the Warbur' family of Hannover whose descendants include members of the New York Banking House of Kuhn, Loeb and Warburg.
Another son, Julius Hirsch married the sister-in-law of Rabbi Solomon Carlebach, head of this prominent Orthodox family of the daughters of Rabbi Hirsch, Sarah married Rabbi Joseph Guggenheimer of Kolin; Julie married Rabbi Dr. Hirsch Plato of Cologne (whose son married a Bondi), and Theresa married Benjamin Ros (whose granddaughter married a Bondi).
The tradition of the family ties carries on and it is no wonder that among current generations, family marries family.
www.tzemachdovid.org /gedolim/ravbreuer.html   (927 words)

  
 June 1999 - Communism Takes Over Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The history of the Warburg family is as intriguing as the history of the Rothschilds.
The Warburg family originally came from Italy in 1559, and this Jewish family, known in Italy as Del Branco, took the German name Warburg from the city of Warburgum, where they first settled.
Simon Elias Warburg went to Sweden (1760-1828), where he founded the first Jewish community in that nation, his grandson Frederik Elias Warburg (1832-1899) moved to England and was a cofounder of the Central London Electric Railway.
www.eaec.org /newsletters/1999/NL1999jun.htm   (4352 words)

  
 WARBURG family history and genealogy information .. Warburg ancestry links
OVERVIEW -- As this genealogical help and research area is a new part of our website, and is currently under development..
genealogy software and family history research database for the Warburg name will likely be included in the updates along with an automated form to submit data for Warburg family history..
posting surname and ancestry data for Warburg items as well as allowing the public to search for Warburg details will remain free of charge.
www.museumstuff.com /zg.cgi?w=warburg   (192 words)

  
 Buildings Integral to the Former Life and/or Persecution of Jews in Hamburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Firstly, the charity work and cultural programme was expanded when these moved to the Warburg family house at No. 17 Mittelweg, on the corner with Johnsallee.
He was the last member of the Warburg family to emigrate.
He had assisted in getting Fritz Warburg released from Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, and arranged that there was sufficient coal for the heating of the building at No. 17 Mittelweg.
www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de /rz3a035/mittelweg.html   (1332 words)

  
 Goodstone History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Goodwin family purchased the land in 1915.
The Warburgs built the present manor house on the estate to replace the Goodstone mansion after the fire.
The Warburg family used the farm during foxhunting season and intermittently throughout the year as a fall and winter residence.
www.goodstone.com /history2.html   (195 words)

  
 Old Speed Air-Cooled VW Bookstore
Chernow meticulously covers the rise of the Mittelweg Warburgs into the pinnacle of German and US finance as well as their philanthropy and driving force behind the Jewish movement and Palestine.
Siegmund Warburg, whilst not terribly popular with the Mittelweg Warburgs, was an exceptionally gifted banker, who turned a small firm into the pinnacle of UK merchant banking.
What makes this book such a fascinating read is that it vividly describes the rise of a Jewish family to prominence and wealth and the voluntary and (sometimes it seems) the involuntary responsibilities which went with that success.
www.oldspeed.com /vwaws/0679743596.htm   (1146 words)

  
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Despite the family split, they still retain close links with the Oppenheimers and have arm's lengh business agreements such as the holdings in Hattron Ltd in which most of the Hambro family are shareholders, directly or indirectly.
Its largest shareholder is S.G. Warburg & Co. Plc which holds 10.07% of the ordinary shares and has a director on the board.
Theese are the David-Weills, Hambro's, Rothschilds and Warburg successors.
members.tripod.com /conspiracy2/bnk_nerv.txt   (1300 words)

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