Paul Warburg
Paul Warburg
(
1868
-
1932
) was a German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S
Federal Reserve
system. Warburg was born into a successful banking family in
Hamburg
,
Germany
. He and his brothers
Max Warburg
and
Felix Warburg
were partners in the family firm of
M. M. Warburg & Co.
, but while Max remained in Germany as head of that business, Felix and Paul moved to
New York City
in
1901
, where they purchased partnerships in the investment firm of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
, where at the time, the influential
Jacob Schiff
was senior partner. Paul Warburg became known as a persuasive advocate of
central banking
in America, in
1907
publishing
"Defects and Needs of Our Banking System"
in the
New York Times
and
"A Plan for A Modified Central Bank"
. His efforts were successful in
1913
with the founding of the
United States
'
Federal Reserve
, to which he was appointed a member of the first Federal Reserve Board by president
Woodrow Wilson
.
See Also
History of the Federal Reserve - The Creation of the Federal Reserve System
External Links
*
Paul Warburg's Crusade to Establish a Central Bank in the United States
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