Baron Éric Alain Robert David de Rothschild (born 3 October 1940) is a French banker.
Early life
Éric de Rothschild was born on 3 October 1940 in
New York City
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.
[Antoine Fouchet]
Éric de Rothschild plaide pour « l’enseignement de la Shoah »
'' La Croix'', January 29, 2012 His father was
Alain de Rothschild.
[Sharlene Goff]
The Rothschilds’ family fortune
''Financial Times
The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Ni ...
'', March 25, 2010 His uncle was
Élie de Rothschild.
Career
He took over the management of
Château Lafite Rothschild
Château Lafite Rothschild is a French wine estate of Bordeaux wine, located in Pauillac in France, owned by members of the Rothschild family since the 19th century, and rated as a First Growth under the 1855 Bordeaux Classification.
Lafite ...
from his uncle in 1973
and turned it from a "traditional, perhaps not precise, instrument to an artistic, professional one", a move that enabled the vineyard to remain competitive during the 1980s when international wines became more competitive. In 1984, he bought the vineyard
château Rieussec
Château Rieussec is a sweet white wine ranked as Premier Cru Classé (French, “First Growth”) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. Belonging to the Sauternes appellation in Gironde, in the region of Graves, the ...
.
In 1982, he was managing the de Rothschild bank in Paris with his cousin
David René de Rothschild when it was nationalized by
François Mitterrand's government.
He is the chairman of the
UK Private Banking & Trust.
He is on the supervisory board of
Paris Orléans, which manages €28.3 billion of assets.
From 1994 to 2004, he managed the archives of the bank Rothschild Frères before transferring it to The Rothschild Archive.
Personal life
He is married to Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo di Forino, a painter.
[Max Abelson]
‘Come on In, Baron!’ Eric de Rothschild Buys Village Co-op for $1.15 M.
''The New York Observer
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'', June 5, 2008 He has two sons and one daughter.
He is the honorary president of the
Grand Synagogue of Paris.
He has been the chairman of the
Mémorial de la Shoah, a museum about
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
in Paris, since 2001.
In 2010, with
Serge Klarsfeld
Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Since the 1960s, he has made notab ...
, he revealed the existence of a document that contained a law project regarding the fate of Jewish people in France, and annotated by the
Maréchal Pétain. In 2012, he called for the teaching of the Holocaust in French schools, to combat
antisemitism
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Antis ...
and all forms of
racism
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.
Awards
* 1993: ''
Wine Spectator
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''
's Distinguished Service Award
* 2006: Southern Wine
& Spirits of America Lifetime Achievement Award
References
External links
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1940 births
Living people
French bankers
French corporate directors
French philanthropists
20th-century French Jews
Eric
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People named in the Panama Papers