Max Warburg
1867 – 1946 German (Ashkenazi Jewish) Banker, government financial adviser
Head of the Hamburg banking house M. M. Warburg who advised the German government and was later driven out by the Nazis.
- Religion
- Judaism (Rabbinic)
- Affiliations
- M. M. Warburg & Co., Hamburg
Max Warburg led the family bank M. M. Warburg & Co. in Hamburg and advised the German government on finance during and after the First World War. As a prominent German Jew he was a frequent target of antisemitic conspiracy claims, including false charges tying him to Germany's defeat. The Nazis forced the sale of his bank and stripped his family's standing, and he emigrated to the United States in 1938.
Connections
- family of Felix Warburg — His brother, a Kuhn, Loeb partner in New York.
- associate of Jacob Schiff — Fellow figure in the transatlantic Warburg-Loeb-Schiff banking network.
- family of Paul Warburg — His brother in Hamburg.
- family of Paul Warburg — His brother, an architect of the US Federal Reserve.
In the timeline
- 1892 Hamburg cholera epidemic kills 8,000 mentioned
- 1907 Max Warburg's Bank Day speech on war readiness central figure
- 1918 Max Warburg addresses Reichstag deputies on postwar policy central figure
- 1945 Robert Ley commits suicide before Nuremberg trial mentioned