Edmond de Rothschild (1926-1997)

Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild
Edmond de Rothschild (1961)
Born	(1926-09-30)September 30, 1926 Paris, France
Died	November 2, 1997(1997-11-02) (aged 71) Geneva, Switzerland
Resting place	Château Clarke
Residence	Château de Pregny
Education	Geneva University
Occupation	Financier, Philanthropist
Spouse(s)	Veselinka Vladova Gueorguieva (m. 1958–60) Nadine Nelly Jeannette L'Hopitalier (m. 1963)
Children	Benjamin de Rothschild (b. 1963)
Parent(s)	Maurice de Rothschild and Noémie Halphen Rothschild

Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild, usually known as Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild (September 30, 1926 – November 2, 1997) was born in Paris, France and died in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a Swiss member of the Rothschild family. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

His parents were Baron Maurice de Rothschild and Swiss Baroness Noémie Halphen, who divorced while he was a child. His mother was the granddaughter of financier Eugène Péreire of the Sephardic Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were also banking and railroad rivals of the Rothschilds. His paternal grandfather was Baron Edmond de Rothschild. His cousins were Élie de Rothschild, Guy de Rothschild and Alain de Rothschild. In 1940 he was taken as a child by his mother to their family home, Château de Pregny in Pregny-Chambésy, in neutral Switzerland after his father, a senator in France, had refused to vote for the pro-Nazi Vichy regime led by Marshal Philippe Pétain in World War II and had been declared a noncitizen. As wealthy Jewish refugees, the reaction by the locals in Switzerland was so hostile that Edmond could not go to the local school but instead attended an international school in Geneva.

His father returned to Pregny after the Second World War having inherited three separate fortunes from the heads of the Naples, Frankfurt and Paris branches of the family bank. His father died in 1957 leaving his son about a billion francs (about $200 million USD).