CodeDS/UK/418
Dates05/06/1867-26/12/1946
Person NameWarburg; Max Moritz (05/06/1867-26/12/1946); Dr. h.c.
SurnameWarburg
ForenamesMax Moritz
TitleDr. h.c.
ActivityBanker; partner (1893-1938) and (1910-l938) Director of M. M.Warburg & CO in Hamburg; sold the family bank in 1938; before 1918 advisor to the German Emperor; Delegate at the deliberations for Versailles Treaty; 1924-1933 member of Reichsbankrat; member f many boardrooms, including HAPAG and Norddeutscher Lloyd.
RelationshipsYounger brother of Aby Warburg; husband of Alice Warburg, née Magnus [married 01/03/1899]; father of Eric Max Warburg, Lola Nina Helena Hahn, née Warburg, Olga Renate Strauss, née Warburg, divorced Samson, Anita Francisca Sophie Wolf, née Warburg and Gisela Maximiliane Wyzanski, née Warburg.
HistoryApprenticeship in Frankfurt, Main and Amsterdam; worked in Paris (1890) and London (1891-93) for N M Rothschild & Sons; 1893 return to Hamburg; 1904-1919 member of Hamburg Parlament (Bürgerschaft); since 1928 President of the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland e.V.; emigrated to USA in (1938).
SourceSupplement to Warburg Genealogy. Stamm-und Nachfahrentafel der Familie Warburg (Hamburg1937), copy in WIA; R. Chernow, The Warburgs: A family saga, London 1993;" Max Warburg", in Wikipedia.de; URL:<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Warburg> [accessed 28/01/2011].

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