WARBURG, Eric M
1900 - 1990 (90 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
1. WARBURG, Eric M was born on 15 Apr 1900 in Hamburg, Germany (son of WARBURG, Max M and MAGNUSON, Alice); died on 9 Jul 1990 in Hamburg, Germany. Notes:
New York Times - 7/11/1990
Eric M. Warburg, an international banker and a member of the German banking family, died on Monday at his home in Hamburg, West Germany. He was 90 years old.
He died of cardiac disease, his daughter, Dr. Marie Warburg, said.
Mr. Warburg retired in 1982 as a managing partner of M. M. Warburg, Brinckmann, Wirtz & Company, a private banking house in Hamburg. From 1939 to 1973 he was president of E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Company in New York.
Born in Hamburg on April 15, 1900, Mr. Warburg was educated at the Heinrich Hertz-Realgymnasium in Hamburg, served in the German Army in 1918 and learned the banking business in Berlin, Frankfurt, London and New York.
Awarded Legion of Merit
From 1929 to 1938 he was a managing partner of M. M. Warburg & Company in Hamburg and of Warburg & Company of Amsterdam. A Jew, he fled Germany in 1938 and in World War II served as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. He was an intelligence officer and took part in the interrogation of leading Nazis, including Hermann Goring.
As the war in Europe drew to a close, he helped arrange for German scientists and their families to be taken to the West. He was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States, the Order of the British Empire and the Croix de Guerre. He was an ardent proponent of United States reconciliation with Germany and was a founding member of the American Council on Germany in New York. He also served as treasurer of the International Rescue Committee.
He is survived by his wife, the former Dorothea Thorsch; a son, Max, of Hamburg; two daughters, Dr. Marie Warburg of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Erica Warburg of Hamburg; two sisters, Anita Warburg of Manhattan and Gisela Warburg-Wyzanski of Cambridge, Mass., and four grandchildren.Family/Spouse: THORSCH, Dorothea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
2. WARBURG, Max M was born on 5 Jun 1867 in Hamburg, Germany (son of WARBURG, Moritz Moses and OPPENHEIM, Charlotte Esther); died on 26 Dec 1946 in New York. Max married MAGNUSON, Alice in 1899. Alice and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. MAGNUSON, Alice and died. Children:
- 1. WARBURG, Eric M was born on 15 Apr 1900 in Hamburg, Germany; died on 9 Jul 1990 in Hamburg, Germany.
- WARBURG, Anita
- WARBURG, Gisela was born on 5 May 1912 in Hamburg, Germany; died on 4 Jul 1991 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA.
Generation: 3
4. WARBURG, Moritz Moses was born in 1838; died in 1910. Moritz + OPPENHEIM, Charlotte Esther. Charlotte was born in 1842; died in 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. OPPENHEIM, Charlotte Esther was born in 1842; died in 1921. Children:
- WARBURG, Abraham Moritz was born on 13 Jun 1866 in Hamburg, Germany; died on 26 Oct 1929 in Hamburg, Germany.
- 2. WARBURG, Max M was born on 5 Jun 1867 in Hamburg, Germany; died on 26 Dec 1946 in New York.
- WARBURG, Paul M was born on 10 Aug 1868 in Hamburg, Germany; died on 24 Jan 1932.
- WARBURG, Felix Moritz was born on 14 Jan 1871 in Hamburg, Germany; died on 20 Oct 1937 in New York, New York County, NY.
- WARBURG, Fritz