Goldschmidt family

Not to be confused with Goldsmid family.
Coat of arms of Barons von Goldschmidt-Rothschild

The Goldschmidt family is a family of German Jewish descent, from Frankfurt am Main, known for its success in banking and finance.


The family is descended from Moses von Schaffhausen, a Jewish goldsmith in Nuremberg in the Holy Roman Empire until a persecution of Jews there in 1499. He moved to Frankfurt, where he took the name of Goldschmidt, and the family went on to prosper as bankers.[1] Most members of the family left Frankfurt after the Fettmilch uprising of 1614, and later generations did not return until the 18th century.[2]

The family was interwoven with the Rothschild family, the Bischoffsheim family of Mainz,[3] and with Bartolome Family, one of the richest families of Monaco. The Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt families conjointly managed the Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Company Bank, which was eventually merged into Banque de Crédit et de Dépôt des Pays-Bas in 1863, the forerunner to BNP Paribas.[4][5]

On 6 September 1903, Maximilian Goldschmidt was elevated to the title of Baron von Goldschmidt-Rothschild in Prussia, by Emperor Wilhelm II. Thus, the family became part of the German nobility.

Family tree (incomplete)

  • 'Eden Hayum Goldschmidt (1772–1843), banker
    • Benedikt Hayum Goldschmidt (1798–1873), banker, founder of B.H. Goldschmidt Bank, married to Jeannette Kann (1802–1848)
      • Leopold Benedict Goldschmidt (1830–1904), banker, married to Regine Bischoffsheim (1834–1905)
      • Adolphe Goldschmidt (1838–1918), banker, married to Alice Emma Moses (1844–1922)
      • Maximilian Goldschmidt (1843–1940), married to Minna Karoline Freiin von Rothschild, the daughter of Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (1828–1901)
        • Albert Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1879–1941)
        • Rudolph Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1881–1962), married Betty Lambert (1894–1969), daughter of Léon Lambert (1851–1919) and Zoé Lucie Betty de Rothschild and Marie-Anne von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1892–1973), the daughter of Fritz von Friedlaender.
        • Lili Jeannette von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1883–1925), married Philipp Schey de Koromla (1881–1957)
        • Lucy Georgine Leontine von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1891–1977), married Edgar Spiegl, Edler von Thurnsee
        • Erich Max Benedikt von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1894–1987), married Countess Veronika Henckel von Donnersmarck
          • Patrick Maximilien Goldschmidt-Rothschild (b. 1928)
    • Amalie Goldschmidt (1804–1887), married to Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (1800–1873), banker
    • Henriette Goldschmidt (1812–1892), married to Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (1808–1883), banker

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sir James Goldsmith", The Daily Telegraph 21 July 1997, (subscription required); archived at archive.org
  2. ^ "Goldschmidt-Kassel". judengasse.de. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  3. ^ Kasper-Holtkotte, Cilli (2003). "Die Bischoffheims". Im Westen Neues: Migration und ihre Folgen : deutsche Juden als Pioniere jüdischen Lebens in Belgien, 18./19. Jahrhundert. Brill. pp. 181–186. ISBN 9004131094.
  4. ^ La Banque de Crédit et de Dépôt des Pays-Bas Archived 27 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "From The Restauration To the Third Republic". BNP Paribus. Retrieved 6 April 2011.

Bibliography

  • The Goldschmidts, Anthony Allfrey, 1996 (ISBN 0-9541363-3-0)
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