Max Warburg
Max M. Warburg (5 June 1867 — 26 December 1946) was a Jewish-German-American banker and was, from 1910 until 1938, director of M.M.Warburg & CO in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to his directing of the Warburg banking company, he developed apprenticeships in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, and London. As head of that important firm, he advised Kaiser Wilhelm II prior to World War I.
During World War I, Max Warburg was serving as head of the German Secret Services, while his brother Paul Warburg was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in the US. He represented Germany at the Versailles Peace Conference of 1918, and remained peacefully in Germany until 1939, during a period when persons of his religion were being persecuted.
Beginning in 1933 he served on the board of the German Reichsbank under governor Hjalmar Schacht. However, because he was Jewish, he ultimately had to sell the bank because of Nazi persecution (economic antisemitism). To avoid injury during the approaching war, when bombs would rain on Germany, Max Warburg was allowed to sail to New York, his funds intact. ?
So while many Jews were persecuted, what enabled this man safe passage ? money ? influence ?.. of was it the fact that he had helped finance the rise of Hitler in 1933 ?... a little publicized fact that the leading Jewish industrialists and bakers paid for the world war two........ money, no bullets , no bombs, no death.
Max Warburg was also a member of the board of the industrial conglomerate IG Farben from its inception in 1925 until he was ousted because of his Jewishness (under Nazi laws, IG Farben would count as a 'Jewish company' and thus would face likely confiscation/seizure if Jewish board members were not removed).
Max Warburg married Alice Magnus in 1899, and together they had four daughters and a son, Eric Warburg (1900—1990), founder of E.M. Warburg & Co, later known as, Warburg Pincus.