The Oppenheim family is a

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banking family Banking families are families which have been involved in banking for multiple generations, in the modern era generally as owners or co-owners of banks, often named for their families. Banking families have been important in the history of ...

which founded what was Europe's biggest private bank, Sal. Oppenheim. According to Manager Magazin 2008, the Oppenheim family was among the 30 richest families in Germany, with assets over 8 billion Euros.

History of the family and raising to nobility

Salomon Oppenheim Salomon Oppenheim, Jr. (19 June 1772 – 8 November 1828) was a German Jewish banker, and the founder of the Sal. Oppenheim private bank. He was born in Bonn, the scion of an illustrious family of "Court Jews" (german: Hofjuden) who had serve ...

founded the banking firm Sal. Oppenheim in the late 18th century. Until its sale in 2009, Sal. Oppenheim was the largest privately owned investment/banking house in Europe, with assets of €348 billion. The Oppenheim family also co-founded the German Colonia-Versicherung and sold their majority stake for 3 billion DM in 1989. 820 million DM were used to increase the equity of the bank, while the rest (over 2 billion DM) was paid out to the family. In 1867, the family received

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with the title of

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and a year later, in 1868 they were admitted to nobility of

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

, also with the title of

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Genealogy

* Hertz Salomon Oppenheim, Bonn's

court factor In the early modern period, a court Jew, or court factor (german: Hofjude, Hoffaktor; yi, היף איד, Hoyf Id, קאַורט פאַקטאַר, ''Kourt Faktor''), was a Jewish banker who handled the finances of, or lent money to, European, mai ...

and purveyor ⚭ Helene Seligmann ** Salomon Oppenheim junior (1772–1828), founder of the Bank Oppenheim, ⚭ Therese Stein (Deigen Levi) (1775–1842), partner of the bank since 1828 *** Charlotte Oppenheim (1802–1836), married to Adolphe Ratisbonne (1801–1861) of the **** (1824–1915), married to Alexandre Singer (son of ) **** Louis Ratisbonne (1827–1900) *** Simon von Oppenheim (1803–1880), partner of the bank since 1828, ennobled in Austria in 1867, ⚭ Henriette Obermayer (1812–1885) **** (1831–1909), Protestant since 1859, partner of the bank 1880–1904, ⚭ Amalie Heuser (1835–1903) ***** Ada von Oppenheim (1862–1944), ⚭ Graf Gisbert von Bredow (1859–1924) ****** Wolf Ferdinand Alfred Georg von Bredow (1934–1952) ******* Wolf Graf von Bredow ***** Emmy von Oppenheim (1869–1957) ⚭ Maximilian Graf von Arco-Valley (1849–1911) ******

Anton Graf von Arco-Valley Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley (5 February 1897 – 29 June 1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, was a German far-right activist, Bavarian nationalist and nobleman. He assassinated the Bavarian prim ...

(1897–1945) *******Maria von Arco-Valley (1935–1987) *******Max Joseph von Arco-Valley (1942-1942) *****Victoria von Oppenheim (1871-1954) ⚭ Alexander von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf (1820-1890) ******Alix-May von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf (1907-1979) ⚭ Roland

Graf von Faber-Castell Graf von Faber-Castell is a brand of fine writing instruments from the German stationery manufacturer Faber-Castell. It includes a line of pencils, mechanical pencils, fountain pens, and rollerball pens. Currently, the Graf von Faber-Castell line ...

(1905-1978) ******* Hubertus Graf von Faber-Castell (1934-2007) ⚭ Liselotte Baecker (born 1939) ******** Caroline Gräfin von Faber-Castell (born 1961) ⚭ Dr. Michael Gotzens (born 1958) ********* Antonia Gotzens ********* Alessandra Gotzens ********* Nicholas Gotzens ******** Patrick Graf von Faber-Castell (born 1965) ⚭

Mariella Ahrens Mariella Ahrens (born 2 April 1969) is a Russian-born German actress. Early life Ahrens was born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) as the daughter of a German computer specialist and a Bulgarian ophthalmologist. She grew up to the age of three ...

(born 1969) ********* Lucia von Faber-Castell (born 2007) ******** Floria Franziska Gräfin von Faber-Castell (born 1972) ⚭ Donatus Landgrave of Hesse (born 1966) ********* Paulina von Hessen ********* Moritz von Hessen ********* August von Hessen ***** Simon von Oppenheim (1864–1932), partner of the bank sice 1893, ⚭ Florence Mathews Hutchins (1868–1935) ****** Eberhard (1890–1962), partner of the bank 1922–1932, ⚭ 1) Anneliese Oetker (1904–1989), divorced in 1929; ⚭ 2) Helene Gräfin von

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(1910–1996) ******* Manfred (1924–1996), partner of the bank 1956–1993, ⚭ Carla Siempelkamp (born 1926) ******** Nicolaus von Oppenheim (born 1956) ********* Laura von Oppenheim ********* Franziska von Oppenheim ********* Theresa von Oppenheim (born 1995) ****** Waldemar von Oppenheim (1894–1952), partner of the bank 1922–1952, ⚭ Gabriele Goldschmidt (1902–1988) ******* Karin von Oppenheim (1922–2009), Georg von Ullmann (1922–1972), partner of the bank 1954–1972 ******** Georg von Ullmann (born 1953) ⚭ Corinna van Meeteren ********* Leon von Ullmann ********* Béla von Ullmann ********* Philip von Ullmann ******** Ilona von Ullmann (born 1953) ⚭ (born 1949) ********* Caroline Gräfin von Krockow ******

Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...

(1900–1978), partner of the bank 1929–1978 ⚭ Ruth Freiin von Zedlitz und Leipe (1908–1988) *******

Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim Alfred Paul Ernst Freiherr von Oppenheim (May 5, 1934 – January 5, 2005), known in America as Alfred Oppenheim, was a German billionaire and banker. Born in Cologne, Germany, Oppenheim was a descendant of Salomon Oppenheim, Jr., who founded th ...

(1934–2005), partner of the bank 1964–1993, ⚭ Jeanne Wahl (born 1941) ******** Victoria von Oppenheim ⚭ Aurel Scheibler ******** Christopher von Oppenheim (born 1965) ⚭ Gabriele Mittelsten-Scheid ********* August von Oppenheim ********* Hugo von Oppenheim ******** Alexandra von Oppenheim ⚭ Hans-Christoph Scheibler ******* Gisela von Oppenheim (born 1936) ⚭ Guillermo von Sanden ******* Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim (born 1937) ⚭ 1) Loyse de Rham (killed in an accident); 2) Marie-Rose von Merey, gesch. van Exter ******** Leonie von Oppenheim ⚭ Charles Booth-Clibborn ******** Simon von Oppenheim (born 1970) ********* Ludmilla von Oppenheim ********* Waldemar von Oppenheim **** (1834–1912), catholic since 1858, partner of the bank 1880–1904, ⚭ Paula Engels (1837–1919) *****

Max von Oppenheim Baron Max von Oppenheim (15 July 1860, in Cologne – 17 November 1946, in Landshut) was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist. He was a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, h ...

(1860–1946), diplomat and orientalist ***** Emil (1862–1956), partner of the bank 1893–1912 ⚭ Maria Pergler von Perglas (1871–1959) ***** Clara Maria Hubertina (1870–1959) ⚭ Guido Graf von Matuschka-Greiffenclau (1847–1924) **** Henry (1835–1912) partner of the bank ⚭ Isabella Georgina Butler ***

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(1804–1878), partner of the bank since 1828, nominated 1868 preußischer

in 1868 ⚭ (1811–1887) *** Eveline Oppenheim (1805–1886), married to

Ferdinand von Kusserow Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...

**** ***** Sophie von Kusserow (1869–1959) ******

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (24 October 1896 – 28 December 1988) was a German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen master. A veteran of World War I, he was introduced to Zen Buddhism ea ...

*** (1809–1889) *** Betty Oppenheim (Bertha Hertz) ⚭ Heinrich David Hertz (born as Hertz Hertz) ****

Gustav Ferdinand Hertz Gustav Ferdinand Hertz (born August 2, 1827, as David Gustav Hertz in Hamburg, died September 8, 1914) was a German lawyer and senator of the Free Imperial City of Hamburg. He was the father of the pioneering physicist Heinrich Hertz Heinric ...

(born as David Gustav Hertz) ⚭ Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn *****

Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( ; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The uni ...

***** Gustav Theodor Hertz ⚭ Auguste Arning ****** Gustav Ludwig Hertz ⚭ Ellen Dihlmann ******* Carl Hellmuth Hertz ******** Hans Hertz

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