Julius Baer (né Isaac Baer; born January 2, 1857 – March 9, 1922) was a Kingdom of Württemberg-born Swiss banker, businessman and philanthropist.
Baer was the founder and namesake of Julius Baer Group, and the patriarch of the Baer family.
Julius Baer | |
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Founder and president of Julius Baer Group | |
Personal details | |
Born | Isaac Baer January 2, 1857 Heidelsheim, Kingdom of Württemberg |
Died | March 9, 1922 Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland | (aged 65)
Citizenship | German (1857–1907) Swiss (1907–1922) |
Spouse | Marie Ulrich (m. 1891) |
Children | 3 |
Occupation | Banker and businessman |
Baer was born in Heidelsheim (today part of Bruchsal), Kingdom of Württemberg to Joseph (1816–1891) and Rosina (née Dreyfuss; 1819–1907) Baer, into a Jewish family. His father worked as private money lender and merchant of animal skins, while his mother was a homemaker. He was the second youngest of five siblings. Baer was educated at the Jewish School of Heidelsheim and completed a banking apprenticeship at Bankhaus August Gerstle in Augsburg from 1883 to 1885.
In 1886, he became a partner in the private bank Samuel Dukas & Co. in Basel, Switzerland. A position he continued to hold until 1896, when he was deployed by his brother-in-law Ludwig Hirschhorn, to Zürich. He became a partner in Bank Hirschhorn, Uhl & Bär, which existed since 1890, and is the ultimate predecessor of today's Julius Baer Group. Since 1901, the bank bore only his name, and was known as Julius Bär & Co., which became one of the leading Swiss private banks.
He was on several board of directors including Lake Thun railway line, Südostbahn and Oerlikon-Bührle (1908–1922).
In 1891, he married Marie Ulrich (1869–1917),[page needed] with whom he had three sons;
His grandson, Hans J. Baer (1927–2011), was a long-term executive director and president of Julius Baer, who became known through his involvement as a mediator in retrieving Jewish funds in the Volcker Commission in the 1990s.
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