Berthold Hochschild (March 6, 1860 – January 24, 1928) was a mining magnate, a founder of the

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, and a philanthropist.

Biography

Hochschild was born to a

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family in Biblis,

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, the son of Auguste Gustina (née Bendheim) and Koppel Jakob Hochschild. In 1881, his brother Zachary Hochschild, along with his cousin

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and Leo Ellinger, founded Metallgesellschaft AG. In 1886, he immigrated to the United States, founding American Metal with Jacob Longeloth two years later. He had two sons, Harold K. Hochschild and Walter Hochschild, and a daughter, Gertrude Hochschild (married to Russian World War I ace and

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test pilot Boris Sergievsky).New York Times: "Gertrude H. Sergievsky, Tolstoy Foundation Officer"
February 13, 1975 Harold founded the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York and Walter Hochschild built an Adirondack Great Camp on Eagle Lake in 1938. The sons of his cousin, Louis Hochschild Altschul (1853–1923), were

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tin baron Mauricio Hochschild and Chilean mining magnate Sali Hochschild.

References

*''New York Times'', January 25, 1928, Berthold Hochschild. Former Chairman of the American Metal. Co. Dies at Age of 68. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hochschild, Berthold 19th-century German Jews Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States 1860 births 1928 deaths German businesspeople in metals Berthold German commodities traders