Baron Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild (

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: שמעון וואלף רוטשילט; May 16, 1828 – 25 January 1901) was a banker and financier of the

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House of Rothschild.

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Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild was the son of Baron

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of Naples and Adelheid Hertz. He was known by some as "The Tzadik of the Rothschild House." He strongly supported many Orthodox Jewish institutions and studied in

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s. He married his cousin

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, the second oldest daughter of

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, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschilds in 1849. The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the

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(Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grüneburg, and also lived in a villa in

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. They had three daughters, two of which survived to adulthood.

Adelheid von Rothschild Adelheid von Rothschild (also Adélaïde de Rothschild, 19 August 1853 – 22 June 1935) was a member of the Rothschild family. Early life Adelheid was born on 19 August 1853 in Frankfurt. She was one of three daughters of Wilhelm Carl von Roth ...

married her cousin

Edmond James de Rothschild Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין ג'יימס רוטשילד - ''HaBaron Avraham Edmond Binyamin Ya'akov Rotshield''; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French memb ...

, while her younger sister Minna Caroline Rothschild married Maximilian Goldschmidt, who adopted the name "Goldschmidt-Rothschild" after Wilhelm Carl's death in 1901. In 1855 von Rothschild became joint head with his brother Mayer Karl of the Frankfurt house. When his brother died in 1886, he became sole head. As he and his brother left no male heirs, the Frankfurt house was discontinued at his death. Von Rothschild, who was religious his entire life, was eulogized by

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at the

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as הצדיק השר הטפסר (''the righteous, the nobleman, the aristocracy'').

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Sources

* ''The Rothschilds; a Family Portrait'' by

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(1962) (1998 reprint) * ''The Rothschilds, a Family of Fortune'' by

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(1973) * ''Rothschild: The Wealth and Power of a Dynasty'' by Derek Wilson. Scribner, London (1988) * ''House of Rothschild : Money's Prophets: 1798-1848'' by

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(1998) * ''The House of Rothschild (vol. 2) : The World's Banker: 1849-1999'' by Niall Ferguson.

(1999)

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The Rothschild Archive
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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothschild, Wilhelm Carl von 1828 births 1901 deaths Wilhelm Carl 19th-century German Jews German bankers Burials at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Frankfurt

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