Felix Warburg
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Warburg circa 1920
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| Born |
Felix Moritz Warburg 14 January 1871 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 20 September 1937 (aged 66) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Banker |
| Employer | M. M. Warburg |
| Spouse(s) | Frieda Schiff |
| Children | 5 |
Felix Moritz Warburg (14 January 1871 – 20 September 1937) was a German-born American banker. He was a member of the Warburg banking family of Hamburg, Germany.
He was a grandson of Moses Marcus Warburg, one of the founders of the bank, M. M. Warburg (in 1798). Felix Warburg was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co..
Warburg was an important leader of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to help the Jews in Europe in the period leading up to, and especially during, the Great Depression. Warburg actively raised funds in the United States on behalf of European Jews who faced hunger following World War I. As early as 1919, he was quoted in The New York Times discussing the dire situation of Jewish war sufferers.
Warburg served as the founder and first president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, which supports the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1925.
Warburg and the Joint Distribution Committee were also instrumental in the 1930s after the global Great Depression following the crash of the New York stock exchange in 1929.
John L. Spivak claimed General Smedley Butler had named him before Congress as part of the Business Plot.
He married Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), daughter of Jacob Henry Schiff (1847–1920) and Therese Loeb Schiff, on 19 March 1895, in New York. They had four sons and one daughter:
All of their children were active in community service.
He died on 20 September 1937 in New York City. He was buried in Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.
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