The main members of Rod Childs family and their development history

The Rothschild family was born in the early19th century by Meyer Rothschild. He and his five sons (the "Roche Five Tigers") successively opened banks in famous European cities such as Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna and Naples, and established the largest financial kingdom in the world at that time. In Europe in the19th century, Rothschild almost became synonymous with money and wealth. It is estimated that around 1850, the wealth accumulated by the Rothschild family is equivalent to $6 billion. In its heyday, almost all European governments lent money to their families. By the end of the 20th century, the world's major gold markets were also controlled by their families, whose assets exceeded at least $50 trillion. It can be said that the financial empire established by this family has influenced the development of the whole history of Europe and even the whole world.

Background of the rise

first pot of gold

Mayer rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild family, showed amazing IQ in his early years. Under the careful training of his father, he systematically learned business knowledge about money and borrowing. After his father died, Meyer, who was only 13 years old, went to Hanover as a bank apprentice with the encouragement of his relatives.

At that time, collecting ancient coins was the common elegance of princes and nobles in European countries. Therefore, Meyer personally edited the "Manual of Ancient Currency" with detailed explanations, and then mailed it to princes and nobles everywhere, hoping that his store would become a royal designated store to obtain rich profits.

Although most of the letters have sunk into the sea, Meyer's posting action has not stopped. Finally, the Duke of Hesse agreed to his request. Duke was one of the richest men in Europe at that time, with a net worth of $200 million. His business is selling troops. Meyer sold his precious ancient badges and coins to the Duke of Hesse, almost as a gift. At the same time, he also tried his best to help the duke collect ancient coins, often introduced some customers to the duke, and spared no effort to help him make money, which made him earn several times the profit.

In the future, this practice of putting money, effort and energy on a specific person has become a basic strategy of the Rothschild family. If you meet people with great potential interests, such as nobles, lords and big financiers, they will be willing to make great sacrifices to deal with them, provide them with information and provide enthusiastic services. After the two sides have established a deep relationship, they will learn from this strength.

Roche five tigers

Get greater benefits from powerful people.

Take Meyer Rothschild's first service for the Duke of Hesse, because Britain needed a large number of troops to control the colonies in North America, and the Duke's biggest customer was Britain. When the Duke of Hesse left Frankfurt for Denmark to escape Napoleon's attack, he left 3 million pounds for Meyer to keep. The money was originally paid by the British government to Hesse's troops, but it was intercepted by Hesse privately and transferred to Meyer. It is this 3 million cash that brought Meyer unprecedented power and wealth, and became the first bucket of gold for Meyer to go to his financial empire.

When Ye Mei received a huge sum of money from the Duke of Hesse, she sent her five sons to five heart regions in Europe. The eldest brother Amslow guarded the headquarters in Frankfurt, the second brother Solomon went to Vienna to open up a new battlefield, the third brother Nathan was sent to England to take charge of the overall situation, the fourth brother Carl went to Naples to establish a base area and shuttled between brothers as messengers, and the fifth brother put Mace in charge of the Paris business. [ 1]

Leading London finance

From 65438 to 0804, Nathan, the third son of the Rothschild family, was appointed by his father and came to London, England alone. He started some cotton business and was the first person in his family to go abroad for development. Europe at that time.

Portrait of Nathan Meyer

During the Napoleonic Wars, some German nobles went into exile in Britain, including Count William of Frankfurt. In order to protect his property, Earl William entrusted Nathan to buy a large number of British bonds, and Nathan took the opportunity to start his own bond and stock business. With his shrewdness and talent, he quickly made a fortune and became a giant in the financial and securities industry of London gold. Later, he lost no time in providing huge military expenses to the British government and established close ties with military and political officials in London.

By 18 15, Nathan has become the leading banking giant in London and is closely watching the European war with other brothers. As early as before the war, the Rothschild family had the foresight to establish their own strategic intelligence collection and express delivery system. They set up a huge network of agents. These people like strategic intelligence spies are called "children". These people are stationed in European capitals, major cities, important trade centers and commercial centers, and various commercial and political information shuttles between London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna and Naples. The efficiency, speed and accuracy of this information system have reached an alarming level, far exceeding the speed of any official information network, and other commercial competitors are even more incomparable. All these make Rothschild Bank in an obvious advantage in almost all international competitions.

1815 June18, the battle of waterloo on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium, was not only a life-and-death duel between Napoleon and Wellington, but also a gamble of thousands of investors. The atmosphere on the London Stock Exchange is very tense. Winners will get unprecedented wealth, and losers will suffer heavy losses. Everyone is anxiously waiting for the final result of the Battle of Waterloo. If Britain loses, the price of British government bonds will fall into the abyss; If Britain wins, British bonds will soar to the sky.

At the height of the fierce fighting between the two armies, Rothschild's spies were nervously collecting as accurate information as possible about the progress of various situations from within the two armies. More spies are always responsible for sending the latest information to the Rothschild information transfer station nearest to the battlefield. In the evening, Napoleon's failure was decided. A Rothschild messenger named Rothschild witnessed the battle. He immediately rode his fast horse to Brussels and then transferred to Ostend port. In the middle of the night, Ross Woods jumped on a Rothschild Clipper with a special pass. After paying 2000 francs, he finally found a sailor and helped him cross the stormy English Channel overnight. /kloc-On the morning of June, 0/9, when he arrived at the shore of Foxton, England, Nathan Meyer waited there himself. He quickly opened the envelope, glanced at the title of the battle report, and then rode straight to the London Stock Exchange.

Nathan first hinted at family traders and sold British bonds, misleading other investors in the exchange that British general Wellington was defeated, and followed suit and sold a lot in a few hours, leaving only 5% of the face value of British bonds. At this time, Nathan immediately motioned for traders to buy every British government bond that could be seen in the market.

Because the news of Napoleon's defeat was made public, it was a whole day later than when Nathan got the news, so that Nathan made 20 times of money on public debt speculation in one day and became the largest creditor of the British government in one fell swoop, even surpassing the sum of the wealth gained by Napoleon and Wellington in decades of war.

At that time, the British government's financial expenditure was raised by issuing bonds. In other words, because the British government has no right to issue currency, it has to pay about 8% interest to borrow money to spend, a private bank, and all principal and interest are settled in gold coins. British public debt is the proof of future government tax revenue, and the British people have the obligation to pay various taxes to the government. Since the Battle of Tielun, Nathan has held an overwhelming amount of British public debt, which actually manipulated the price of public debt and affected the money supply of the whole UK. As a result, the economic lifeline of Britain was firmly grasped by the Rothschild family. Because Nathan controlled the Bank of England and dominated the future issuance of British bonds, he let the whole people pay taxes to the Rothschild family bank in disguise. Nathan's success in England inspired old Rothschild. In order to facilitate the financial and trade exchanges between Britain and the European continent, he sent his youngest son Jeames to France in 18 1 1. [ 1]

Conquer France

During Napoleon's reign, Jeames mainly traveled between London and Paris, establishing a family transportation network and smuggling British goods. Help Wellington transport gold and Britain.

Portrait of Jean-Metz Rothschild

After the national debt purchase war, Jeames became famous in France. He founded the Rothschild Bank in Paris and secretly funded the Spanish Revolution.

From the month of 18 18, the Rothschild family began to eat French bonds quietly in major European cities, and French bonds gradually appreciated. Then, from 1 1.5, French bonds were suddenly sold in large quantities all over Europe at the same time, which caused great panic in the market.

When watching his bond price slide into the abyss like a free fall, Louis Stanislas Xavier felt that his crown had gone with him. At this time, the agent of the Rothschild family in court advised the king to try to make the Rothschild Bank, which is rich in the world, save the situation. Louis Stanislas Xavier, who had always despised the Rothschild family, stopped talking about royal status and immediately summoned the Zhan Mu brothers. The latter did not live up to his expectations, and stopped the collapse of bonds and became the focus of attention in France.

After the French military defeat, let the Metz brothers save France from the economic crisis, and their banks became places where people competed for loans. At this point, the Rothschild family completely controlled French finance. [ 1]

Win Austria

After the Napoleonic Wars, the Rothschild family has become a famous family in Europe and gained a lot of confidence in conquering Britain and France. Nevertheless, he

Portrait of Solomon Rothschild

We dare not expect to talk business directly with Habsburg people, but we have found a stepping stone, that is,/kloc-metternich, which is famous in European politics in the 9th century.

After Napoleon's defeat in Europe, the Vienna body led by Austrian Foreign Minister metternich maintained the longest peaceful period in Europe in the19th century. Under the unfavorable situation of Austria's decline and the encirclement of powerful enemies, he brought the essence of checks and balances to the extreme. 18 18 Aachen Conference is an important meeting to discuss the future of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. Representatives of Britain, Russia, Austria, France and other countries made decisions on France's war reparations and the withdrawal of the Allies.

Meyer's second son Solomon has outstanding diplomatic skills among brothers. He speaks elegantly and is good at flattery. It is for this reason that Solomon traveled between major European cities all the year round and played a coordinating role in the family bank. Later, he was recommended by his brothers to Vienna to develop the banking business in the heart of Europe.

Solomon and his brother Carl both attended the Aachen meeting. It was at this meeting that Solomon met metternich through the introduction of metternich's right-hand man Jenkins, and soon became close friends with metternich.

With Solomon's strong support, metternich began to expand Austrian influence and sent troops everywhere to the troubled areas to "defend peace". This makes Austria, whose national strength is declining, fall into a deeper debt quagmire, thus relying more on Solomon's silver box.

Europe from 18 14 to 1848 is called the "metternich era", but it is Rothschild Bank that actually controls metternich.

1822, three brothers, metternich, Jenkins, Solomon, Jean Metz and Carl, represented their families and attended the important Verona meeting. After the meeting, they got a lucrative project-funding the first China-Europe railway. More and more Austrians feel the influence of Rothschild, and people begin to say, "Austria has an emperor Ferdinand and a king Solomon."

1843, Solomon acquired Vitkovic United Mining Company and Austro-Hungarian Smelting Company, both of which were one of the largest 10 heavy industry companies in the world at that time. By 1848, Solomon and his family had become the masters of Austrian finance and economy. [ 1]

Control German-Italian Finance

Since Napoleon's withdrawal from Germany, Germany has merged from more than 300 loose feudal countries into more than 30 larger countries and established the German Confederation. Amslow, the boss who stayed in Frankfurt, was appointed as the first finance minister of Germany, and/kloc-0 was made a baron by the Austrian emperor in 822. The Rothschild Bank in Frankfurt became the financial center of Germany.

Old four Carl is the main messenger of the family, delivering information and helping other brothers all over Europe. After helping Brother Wu win a brilliant victory in the French national debt battle of 18 18, Nathan, the third brother in charge of the house, was sent to Naples, Italy to set up a bank. Carl played a better role in Italy than other brothers expected. He not only funded the troops sent by metternich to Italy to suppress the revolution, but also forced the Italian local government to bear the expenses of the occupying forces with superb political skills. He also helped his friend Medici plan and recapture the important position of finance minister of Naples. Carl gradually became the financial pillar of the Italian court, and his influence spread all over the Italian peninsula. He also established business ties with the Vatican. When Pope Gregory XVI saw him, he made an exception and reached out to kiss Jean Card instead of sticking out his foot as usual. [ 1]

The decline of the family

Britain, forced by war and domestic chaos and heavily dependent on the issuance of national debt, gave the financial dominance to the Rothschild family, who accumulated huge wealth by manufacturing and circulating false securities. At the same time, Rockefeller family, dupont family family and Mellon family also rose one after another. Unlike the Rothschild family, they transferred most of their wealth to a new country, the United States, and chose to continue their development in that new country. [ 10]

The Rothschild family not only occupies an absolute dominant position in European financial circles, but also tries to contain and influence the United States by supporting the development and growth of Morgan consortium, trying to control the United States in an all-round way. At that time, Rockefeller family, dupont family family and Mellon family didn't have the strength to fight against the too powerful Rothschild family, so they adopted a compromise method. At that time, Citigroup, Morgan, the First and Second National Banks of the United States were all under the indirect control of the Rothschild family. However, due to the excessive allocation of funds to control the new world, the Rothschild family's control in the old world declined rapidly.

From 65438 to 0865, the Rothschild family thought that the American economy would not develop greatly, so they cancelled all branches in the United States. Facts have proved that this was a fatal mistake, which directly led to the rise of the Morgan family.

Prime Minister Bismarck seized this godsend opportunity to set up Deutsche Bank through the reparations of the Franco-Prussian War, and through industrialization and a series of dazzling mergers and acquisitions, he quickly set up a new Yongke consortium: Germany's four major banking groups. New financial groups have emerged in Europe.

During World War I, the Rockefeller family, dupont family family, Morgan family and Mellon family seized the opportunity that the influence of the Rothschild family declined due to the war and launched a counterattack in the United States, trying to get rid of the controlled fate. This attempt seemed successful at the end of World War I, when the United States got rid of its long-term debt. However, with the counterattack of the Rothschild family after the war, the four major families in the United States found that their own strength could not fight against the Rothschild family. The Yongke consortium suffered heavy losses in the Great War, and the German consortium composed of four major German banks also succumbed to the will of the Rothschild family. The Rothschild family reached their second and highest peak: controlling the global financial lifeline. [ 10]

During World War II, the Rothschild family almost came to the brink of collapse. A large number of family members were killed, assets were embezzled, and more than two-thirds of financial institutions completely disappeared. Many assets in Germany, France and Italy were destroyed by the war (the French office was nationalized even after the end of World War II), which meant that the Rothschild family's family power in continental Europe was basically eliminated. [ 10]

The American consortium took advantage of this favorable opportunity to annex almost all the assets of the Rothschild family in the United States, Australia and Canada, and established a modern pattern of Citigroup, Morgan and the United States. The Yongke consortium also lost most of its members in the war, successfully transformed into a new oligarchy, and escaped the losses of World War II by using the wealth plundered by the five major Swiss banks, becoming the largest financial oligarchy consortium in Europe after the war.

Since then, the Rothschild family's financial institutions and assets in continental Europe, North America and Australia have all been wiped out. Only a few surviving financial institutions in Britain and Switzerland have struggled to recover, and gradually recovered after the war.

During the Cold War, many assets of the Rothschild family in Eastern Europe were taken over by the Soviet Union. [ 10]

At the same time, Rothschild insisted on family business, which deviated from the concept of modern management to a certain extent, thus hindering its development. Since the 1960' s, the big banks in Europe and America went public one after another and raised a lot of funds, but Rothschild still developed on his own funds, which was slow and gradually outdated. [ 1]

In the era of mass media, people's eyes may only focus on such famous names as Kennedy family, Rockefeller family or Morgan family. In the United States before World War II in the 20th century, there was a classic saying describing the situation in the United States at that time: "The Democratic Party belongs to the Morgan family, and the * * * and the Party belongs to the Rockefeller family ..." In fact, there should be another sentence after this sentence: "Rockefeller and Morgan once belonged to Rothschild!"

The present situation of the family

After entering the modern era, the business of Rothschild Bank Group is mainly mergers and acquisitions-helping large enterprises to acquire and merge other enterprises or restructure their assets. Rothschild's M&A business is mainly in Europe, ranking 13 in the world M&A ranking in 2006.

Rothschild has an office in Hong Kong, Asia called "ABN Rothschild". The business in Asia is under the control of ABN Amro, because its voice is very small, and some personnel rights are in the hands of ABN Amro.

Although the Rothschild family's industrial scale is already very small, the annual turnover of Rothschild Bank Group is less than $654.38+0 billion, and the profit is less than $3 billion. It is estimated that its total capital will not exceed $30 billion, which is less than the fraction of the big banks in Europe and America. However, most people think that as an old financial giant, even though the Rothschild Bank has declined, the Rothschild family's industries have spread all over many industries, and its influence cannot be underestimated.

The Rothschild family still exists today. It may not be as powerful as the currency war, but it is still one of the richest families in the world. Some European and American scholars have also studied him, but by the 1980s, many works about him had mysteriously disappeared, and his real situation was still full of mysteries. [4]

[Edit this paragraph] Memorabilia of family development

Lionel was elected to the British House of Commons.

◆ 1769 Meyer Rothschild became the official agent of the court.

◆ 1798 Nathan Meyer Rothschild left Frankfurt for England.

1806, when the Duke of Hesse fled Napoleon, he gave 3 million pounds to Meyer for safekeeping.

◆ 18 15 first got the news of Napoleon's defeat and became the creditor of the British government.

◆ 1822, the Austrian emperor awarded Rothschild the title of Baron of Four Brothers.

1835, Rothschild obtained the right to supply mercury in almaden.

◆ 1845 Jeames Rothschild won the bid for the first major railway line in France.

◆ Lionel Rothschild 1847 was elected as a member of the British House of Commons.

◆ The first project of the English Channel Tunnel started on 1872.

◆ 1873 Rothschild became a shareholder of Rio Tinto.

◆ 1875, Nathan Meyer and his son obtained the main benefits of the Suez Canal with the support of the British government.

Scenes of Family Participating in Russian Oil Exploration

◆ 1886, the Rothschild Frères began to take great interest in Russian oil fields.

◆ 19 19 The first gold pricing was held in the office of Nathan Meyer and his son.

◆ 1926 Nathan Meyer and his son reorganized the share capital of the major underground railway companies in London.

◆ 1938 Nazi invaded Austria and Rothschild's bank in Vienna closed.

◆ 1953 Rothschild develops finance in Canada.

◆ 1962 The Rothschild family's mining industry has created new prosperity after the establishment of Imetar.

◆ 1963 LCF Edmund Rothschild was born.

◆ 1965 Nathan Meyer & Sons moved into new offices in London and BNP Paribas.

◆ The Knesset Building funded by Jeames Rothschild was completed in 1966.

◆ 198 1 year, the French government nationalized the Rothschild Bank.

◆ 1985 Rothschild privatized British Gas Company.

◆ 1989 Rothschild Bank returns to Frankfurt.

◆ In 2000, Rothschild developed 3G license auction [3]

[Edit this paragraph] represents family members.

◆ Meyer Rothschild (1744.2.23-1812.9.19), originally named Mayer Amschel Rothschild, later renamed Rothschild, which means Red Shield in German.

Four generations of Rothschild genealogy

◆ Amschel Meyer von Rothschild

( 1773.6. 12- 1855. 12.6)

◆ Solomon Meyer von Rothschild

( 1774.9.9- 1855.7.28)

◆ nathan mayer Nathan Meyer.

( 1777.9. 16- 1836.7. 18)

Karl Meyer von Rothschild

( 1788.4.24- 1855.3. 10)

◆ James Mel de Rothschild.

( 1792- 1868)[5]

◆ Edgeworth Beresford David Rothschild

◆ élie de Rothschild

◆ jacob rothschild

◆ adolf rothschild

◆ Guy De Rothschild (1909-June 2007.12)

[Edit this paragraph] The family abides by the Jewish tradition.

Although the Rothschild family has great wealth and belongs to the upper class in Europe and America, they always adhere to the Jewish tradition and safeguard the interests of the Jews more than doing business and making money.

Portrait of Lionel Nathan Mayer

Most people in the Rothschild family insist on intermarriage, and the companies and enterprises under this family are not expected to do business on Saturday according to the Jewish Sabbath. 1820, Nathan announced that he would not do business with any German city that refused to grant Jewish citizenship. 1850, when Karl lent money to the Pope, he asked the Vatican to demolish the Jewish capital Rome. /kloc-In the 9th century, the Rothschild Bank in London announced that it would not lend money to the Russian czar because the czar's government persecuted and abused Russian Jews.

Lionel became a member of the British House of Commons on 1858. He didn't want to be a Christian, but asked Judaism to press the Hebrew Bible by hand and take an oath with a Jewish hat. The nobles in the House of Lords objected at first, but later agreed. This is really unusual in England where Christianity is the state religion, and it is a victory for Jews who have been discriminated against for a long time. Twenty-seven years later, Lionel's son Nathan Neal became Britain's first Jewish aristocrat and member of the House of Lords. He also took the oath in his father's Jewish way.

The Rothschild family also actively participated in various Jewish activities and donated many charitable funds to the Jewish community. This family also has an indissoluble bond with the Zionist movement. Its member in France, Baron Edmund (1845~ 1934), provided about $6 million to early Palestinian Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century to help them buy land and production equipment and settle down. Walter of London (1868~ 1937) is the chairman of British Zionism. It was he who, together with Weizmann, the Zionist leader who was active in Britain during the First World War, finally made the British government publish the famous Balfour Declaration in the form of a letter from Foreign Secretary Belfo to Lord Walter Rothschild, and finally contributed to the establishment of the Israeli State.

The Jewish family background of the Rothschild family and its connection with the Zionist movement naturally became the target of all previous anti-Semitism. During the Nazi period, many members of the German branch of the Rothschild family were killed. In addition, all kinds of conspiracy theories based on anti-Semitism and featuring the Red Shield family are also popular, satisfying some people's imagination of the hidden wealth and behavior of this family.

The Rothschild family story has also been put on the screen and stage. 1934 Hollywood film "The House of Rothschild", starring George Arliss and loretta young, takes Meyer's life as the main story. Several segments of this film highlight the Nazi anti-semitic propaganda "Derewige Jude". The Broadway musical The Rothschild Family was nominated by TonyAward in 197 1 year.

In a word, the Rothschild family is a typical Jewish family around. This sentence said by Leopold Lionel can probably reflect and represent the thoughts of all members of this family: "I have two great honors: first, I am a member of the Rothschild family; Second, I am Jewish. " [ 1]

[Edit this paragraph] The relationship between family and China.

In July 2007, it was widely reported in the international media that after Blackstone, China National Foreign Exchange Investment Corporation (CIC) with assets of hundreds of billions of dollars may join BHP Billiton in the form of equity participation. However, few people know that BHP Billiton's equity is also inextricably linked with the Rothschild family.

As the world's largest iron ore producer, the third largest copper producer and the second largest coal exporter, BHP Billiton's Australian Olympic Dam accounts for 40% of the global uranium reserves. By the end of 2005, the market value of the company had reached $88.3 billion. As we all know, the planned acquisition of the global resource product reserve company is the best way to quickly grasp the right to speak in the resource market. It is more effective and cost-effective for China to buy the shares of international resource predators that can control the global resource reserves and sales than to simply buy resources.

BHP Billiton used to make China's steel producers nervous once every spring, and the psychological shadow of iron ore negotiations could not be eliminated. But now, the State Foreign Exchange Investment Corporation has given them hope. It seems that with the passage of time, the relationship between Rothschild and China, an emerging economy, is bound to become closer and closer through some ties. We will wait and see what will happen in the business negotiation between China and Rothschild, a century-old wealth family.

On May 26th, 2008, Edmund Rothschild Bank, a subsidiary of LCF Rothschild Group, became a shareholder in China Shipping Fund in the name of its private equity consulting firm in China. Its only competitor was a China company that did not want to be named. It is reported that the atmosphere at the auction site was very tense. Rothschild and the China company launched a close hand-to-hand combat, and the bidding for you came and went reached 100 rounds. In the end, Rothschild bid 65.438+0.5 billion yuan, exceeding the starting price by 32.4 million yuan, which made the tenacious China opponent give up the auction. After winning this share, Rothschild will become the third largest shareholder of China Shipping Fund, holding 5.385% of the shares of China Shipping Fund/KLOC-0. At present, the existing shareholders of China Shipping Fund also include: China Shipping Trust Co., Ltd. holds 46.923%; Guolian Securities Co., Ltd. holds 37.692%.