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Siegmund Warburg

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Siegmund Warburg · Economics & Business

What

Founder of the London merchant bank S. G. Warburg & Co.; pioneered the first UK hostile takeover and the Eurobond market.

When

1902, Tübingen, Germany — 1982

Where

Tübingen, Germany

Founded
S. G. Warburg & Co.1946
Biography

Siegmund Warburg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founder of the London merchant bank S. G. Warburg & Co.; pioneered the first UK hostile takeover and the Eurobond market.

How & why

Siegmund George Warburg was a German-born British banker from the distinguished Warburg Jewish banking family, who left Germany after the Nazi rise to power. In London he founded the merchant bank S. G. Warburg & Co., which pioneered the first hostile takeover in Britain and helped create the Eurobond market. He is regarded as one of the most influential bankers of the 20th century.

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Founder of the London merchant bank S. G. Warburg & Co.; pioneered the first UK hostile takeover and the Eurobond market.

1902

Source: Wikipedia (Siegmund George Warburg)