Baron Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (
Hebrew
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: שמעון וואלף רוטשילט; May 16, 1828 – 25 January 1901) was a banker and financier of the
Frankfurt
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House of Rothschild.
Life and career
Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild was the son of Baron
Carl Mayer von Rothschild
Carl Mayer ''Freiherr'' von Rothschild (24 April 1788 – 10 March 1855) was a German-born banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples.
Biography
Born Kalman Mayer Rothschild in Frankfu ...
of Naples and Adelheid Hertz. He was known by some as "The Tzadik of the Rothschild House." He strongly supported many Orthodox Jewish institutions and studied in
Yeshiva
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s. He married his cousin
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild, the second oldest daughter of
Anselm von Rothschild
Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, baron (29 January 1803 – 27 July 1874) was an Austrian banker, founder of the Creditanstalt, and a member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family.
Family
He was born in the Imperial City of Frankfurt, t ...
, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschilds in 1849. The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the
Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grüneburg, and also lived in a villa in
Königstein im Taunus
Königstein im Taunus () is a health spa and lies on the thickly wooded slopes of the Taunus in Hesse, Germany. The town is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Owing to its advantageous location for both scenery and transport on the edg ...
.
They had three daughters, two of which survived to adulthood.
Adelheid von Rothschild married her cousin
Edmond James de Rothschild
Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין ג'יימס רוטשילד - ''HaBaron Avraham Edmond Binyamin Ya'akov Rotshield''; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French memb ...
, while her younger sister Minna Caroline Rothschild married
Maximilian Goldschmidt, who adopted the name "Goldschmidt-Rothschild" after Wilhelm Carl's death in 1901.
In 1855 von Rothschild became joint head with his brother Mayer Karl of the Frankfurt house. When his brother died in 1886, he became sole head. As he and his brother left no male heirs, the Frankfurt house was discontinued at his death.
Von Rothschild, who was religious his entire life, was eulogized by
Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim
Elijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim (1843—1905), also known by his acronym ADeReT, was a Lithuanian rabbi in the 19th century who served as the leader of the Jewish community of Panevėžys, as the rabbi of Mir, led the Ashkenazi community in Jerus ...
at the
Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak-Kaminetz in
Kaunas
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as הצדיק השר הטפסר (''the righteous, the nobleman, the aristocracy'').
See also
*
Rothschild banking family of Austria
*
Rothschild banking family of England
*
Rothschild banking family of France
The Rothschild banking family of France (french: Famille banquière Rothschild) is a French banking dynasty founded in 1812 in Paris (at the time in the First French Empire) by James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868). James was sent there from ...
*
Rothschild banking family of Naples
References
Sources
* ''The Rothschilds; a Family Portrait'' by
Frederic Morton.
Atheneum Publishers (1962) (1998 reprint)
* ''The Rothschilds, a Family of Fortune'' by
Virginia Cowles
(Harriet) Virginia Spencer Cowles OBE (August 24, 1910 – September 17, 1983) was an American journalist, biographer, and travel writer. During her long career, Cowles went from covering fashion, to covering the Spanish Civil War, the turbulen ...
.
Alfred A. Knopf
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(1973)
* ''Rothschild: The Wealth and Power of a Dynasty'' by
Derek Wilson.
Scribner, London (1988)
* ''House of Rothschild : Money's Prophets: 1798-1848'' by
.
Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquire ...
(1998)
* ''The House of Rothschild (vol. 2) : The World's Banker: 1849-1999'' by Niall Ferguson.
Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquire ...
(1999)
External links
*
The Rothschild Archive- an international cente in
London
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for research into the history of the
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a Court Jew, court factor to the German Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Landgraves ...
.
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1828 births
1901 deaths
Wilhelm Carl
19th-century German Jews
German bankers
Burials at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt