Rothschild Family

Meyer Rothschild (1February 23rd, 744-181September 2nd): the founder of Rothschild family, the father of international finance, and a European banking giant, founded the world's first multinational company and started international financial business.

[Edit this paragraph] 1. Old Rothschild's first bucket of gold

Rothschild is a financial family that originated in Frankfurt. This family is famous in the financial world, but little known outside. Their wealth can't compare with Bill Gates, the richest man in the world with a net worth of 50 billion dollars. How much wealth does the Rothschild family have? This is a mystery of the world. It is estimated that around 1850, the wealth accumulated by the Rothschild family is equivalent to $6 billion. If the Rothschild family hadn't declined later, at the rate of return of 6%, 150 years later, their family assets would have exceeded at least $50 trillion. In that case, their wealth can't be compared with Bill Gates, the world's richest man with a net worth of $50 billion.

However, the Rothschild family is not what it used to be. There are many reasons for this situation, but the main reason is that Jewish families suffered a devastating blow in World War II, and competitors attacked and carved it up at this time. The Rothschild family lost most of their assets in the world, and only a few financial institutions in Britain and Switzerland survived and struggled, and gradually recovered after the war. The current global financial power is still in this period.

Rothschild Sr, 1744, was born in the Jewish community of Frankfurt on February 23rd. His father Moses was a wandering goldsmith and lender, and Meyer Rothschild made a living in Eastern Europe all the year round. Meyer showed amazing IQ since he was a child. His father devoted a lot of effort to him, carefully cultivated him and systematically taught him business knowledge about money and borrowing. A few years later, Moses died, and 13-year-old Meyer, encouraged by his relatives, went to Hanover to work as a bank apprentice at Oben Harmo Family Bank.

A few years later, the young Meyer returned to Frankfurt to continue his father's loan business. He also changed his surname to Rothscild, Ror is red in German, and Schild means shield in German). The calculating Meyer soon became familiar with the important people in the court. I met Prince William through the introduction of General von Istover. With the help of Prince William, he became the appointed agent of Prince William on September 2 1, 1769. Meyer put the royal coat of arms on the signboard and wrote in gold beside it: "M. A. Rothschild, His Royal Highness Prince William appointed the agent". For a time, Meyer became famous and his business became more and more prosperous.

After devoting himself to Prince William's account, Meyer tried his best to do every job perfectly, thus winning the trust of the prince. Soon, the bourgeois revolution broke out in France. The revolution was directed at the Holy Roman Empire, the trade between Germany and Britain was interrupted, and the prices of imported goods soared. Meyer made a fortune by trafficking goods from England to Germany.

By 1800, the Rothschild family had become one of the richest Jewish families in Frankfurt. After Napoleon came to power, Prince William hurried to Denmark. Before he fled, he gave Meyer a cash worth $3 million for him to keep. It was this $3 million in cash that brought Meyer unprecedented power and wealth and became the first bucket of gold that Meyer cast into a financial empire.

Meyer has bigger ambitions than setting up the Bank of England! When he got a huge sum of money from Prince William, he began to dispatch troops. His five sons shot like five sharp arrows at five heart areas 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 Britain to take charge of the overall situation, the fourth brother Carl went to Naples, Italy to set up a base and shuttled between brothers as messengers, and the fifth brother James was in charge of the Paris business.

An unprecedented financial empire in human history has been unveiled!

[Edit this paragraph] Second, Rothschild's third son Nathan conquered the British Empire.

Nathan is the third son of old Rothschild and the bravest of the five brothers. 1798. He was sent to England by his father from Frankfurt to open a banking business for the ToRocil family in Nathan Meyer. Nathan is a shrewd and decisive banker, and no one has ever really understood his inner world. With amazing financial talent and unpredictable means, he has become the leading bank oligarch in London by 18 15.

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. Winners will get unprecedented wealth, and losers will suffer heavy losses. The air in the London Stock Exchange is extremely tense, and everyone is anxiously waiting for the final result of the Battle of Waterloo. If Britain loses, the price of British government bonds (Sonsols) 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 the progress of various situations as accurately as possible from within the two armies. A Rothschild messenger named Ross Woods witnessed the war with his own eyes, saw that Napoleon was defeated, and sailed across the English Channel overnight. Nathan personally waited on the shore, took the letter from Ross Woods, quickly opened the envelope, glanced at the title of the Battle Report, and then rode straight to the London Stock Exchange.

When Nathan walked quickly into the stock exchange, the anxious and excited crowd waiting for the Battle Report immediately quieted down, and all eyes were fixed on Nathan's expressionless and inscrutable face. Everyone pinned their wealth and honor on Nathan's eyes. Nathan deliberately took a deep look at the Rothschild traders around him, and everyone immediately rushed to the trading desk without saying a word and began to sell British government bonds. Then the price of public debt began to fall, and then the bigger selling orders became more and more fierce like a flood, and the price of public debt began to collapse.

Cunning Nathan still leaned back on his throne with no expression. Finally, someone in the trading hall exclaimed, "Rothschild knows!" "Wellington was defeated!" Everyone was suddenly shocked, and the selling finally turned into panic. After several hours of selling, British bonds have become a pile of rubbish with a face value of 5%.

Nathan at this time, like at the beginning, is still looking at all this indifferently. His eyes flashed slightly, the kind that he would never understand without long-term training, but this time the signal was completely different. His signalmen immediately began to rush to their respective trading desks and began to buy every kind of British government bonds that could be seen in the market.

On the evening of June 2 1,1,Henry Pope, the messenger of Lord Wellington, finally arrived in London. The news is that Napoleon's army was completely defeated after eight hours of hard fighting, losing one-third of its soldiers, and France was finished!

This news is a whole day later than Nathan's message! On this day, Nathan made 20 times as much money, more than the combined wealth of Napoleon and Wellington in decades of war!

The Battle of Waterloo made Nathan the largest creditor of the British government in one fell swoop, which led to the issuance of future British bonds, and the Bank of England was controlled by Nathan.

After that, Nathan made no secret of his pride in conquering the British Empire:

"I don't care what kind of British puppet ascended the throne to rule this huge empire. Whoever controls the money supply of the British Empire will control the British Empire, and this person is me! "

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/kloc-Europe has six great powers in the 0/9th century! They are the British Empire, Prussia (later Germany), Austria-Hungary, France, Russia … and the Rothschild family! The Rothschild family also has a prominent nickname, which is the "Sixth Empire".

As long as your brothers stick together, no bank in the world can compete with you, hurt you or profit from you. You will have more power than any bank in the world.

-Letter from Davidson to Nathan,1865438+June 24, 2004.

3. Old Rothschild made a strict will before his death in 18 12.

The content of the will is:

(1) All important positions of family banks must be held by family insiders, and outsiders are never allowed to hold them. Only male family members can participate in family business activities.

(2) Family intermarriage can only be carried out between cousins to prevent wealth dilution and outflow. (This rule was strictly enforced in the early stage, but it was later relaxed and allowed to marry other Jewish bank families. )

(3) It is absolutely forbidden to publicize real estate.

(4) In property inheritance, lawyers are absolutely forbidden to intervene.

(5) The eldest son of each family, as the head of each family, can choose the second son to take over only with the unanimous consent of the family.

Anyone who violates the will will lose all inheritance rights.

There is a saying in China that brothers are United, and their profits are cut off. The Rothschild family strictly prevents the dilution and outflow of wealth through intermarriage within the family. In the years of 100, there were 18 marriages within the family, of which 16 was between the first cousins.

Strict family control, completely opaque black-box operation, precise coordination like a clock, always getting information before the market, thorough cold rationality, endless desire for money and power, and deep insight into money and wealth and genius foresight based on all these make the Rothschild family invincible in the cruel whirlpool of finance, politics and war for more than 200 years, and establish the largest financial empire in human history so far.

It is estimated that around 1850, the wealth accumulated by the Rothschild family is equivalent to $6 billion. If the Rothschild family hadn't declined later, at the rate of return of 6%, 150 years later, their family assets would have exceeded at least $50 trillion. By the beginning of the 20th century, the wealth controlled by the Rothschild family was estimated to have reached half of the world's total wealth at that time.

Rothschild family banks are located in major cities in Europe, and they have their own information collection and rapid transmission systems. Even the royal families and nobles in European countries need to transmit all kinds of information quickly and secretly through their systems. They also created an international financial clearing system, and used its control over the world gold market to establish an account clearing system in the family banking system without physical gold transportation for the first time.

In this world, I'm afraid no one else can understand the true meaning of gold better than Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs Childs. When the Rothschild family announced their withdrawal from London's gold pricing system in 2004, they were quietly moving away from the center of the unprecedented financial storm in the future world and distancing themselves from the gold price. The heavily indebted dollar economy, the crisis-ridden world legal tender system and the world foreign exchange reserve system are likely to face liquidation, and the wealth accumulated by Asian countries with negligible gold reserves for many years will be "redistributed" to future winners. Hedge funds will strike again, but this time the target will no longer be the pound and Asian currencies, but the dollar, the pillar of the world economy.

War is good news for bankers. Because all kinds of expensive facilities and slowly depreciating items in peacetime will disappear in an instant in the war, the warring parties will win at all costs, and by the end of the war, the government will fall into the debt trap of the bank regardless of winning or losing. From the establishment of the Bank of England to the end of the Napoleonic Wars 12 1 year (1694~ 18 15), Britain was in a state of war for 56 years, and the remaining half of the time was preparing for the next war. Inciting and financing war is in the fundamental interests of bankers, and the Rothschild family is no exception. From the French Revolution to the Second World War, almost all modern wars have their shadows behind them. The Rothschild family is the largest creditor in the major developed countries in the west today. Old Rothschild's wife (Gutle Schnaper) once said: "If my sons don't want war, then no one will love war."

By the middle of19th century, the currency distribution rights of major European industrial countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Italy all fell under the control of the Rothschild family, and "the sacred monarchy was replaced by the sacred gold right". At this time, the beautiful and prosperous American continent on the other side of the Atlantic has already fallen into their field of vision.

[Edit this paragraph] Third, the decline of the Rothschild family

The ancients were not rich for three generations, and the Rothschild family was not rich for three generations, but they were also doomed to decline.

At present, the business of Rothschild Bank Group is mainly mergers and acquisitions, that is, helping large enterprises to acquire and merge other enterprises or reorganize assets. Rothschild's M&A business is mainly in Europe, ranking 13 in the world M&A ranking in 2006.

At present, Rothschild has an office in Asia-Hong Kong. However, the official name of this office is "and Amelot-Rothschild", because its business in Asia is controlled by and Amelot, and it has almost no say. Even some personnel rights are in the charge of ABN amro.

The Rothschild family is small at present. The annual turnover of Rothschild Bank Group is less than $654.38+00 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.

The reason for the decline is that the Rothschild family made a strategic judgment mistake in 1865, thinking that the American economy would not develop greatly, so they cancelled all branches in the United States. This was a fatal mistake, which directly led to the rise of the Morgan family.

Secondly, the Rothschild family suffered heavy losses in World War I and World War II. Many of its assets in Germany, France and Italy were destroyed, and its office in France was even nationalized after World War II. As a Jewish family, Rothschild suffered a heavy blow under Nazi rule. Although there was basically no loss in the British headquarters, the family power in continental Europe was basically eliminated. During the Cold War, many assets of the Rothschild family in Eastern Europe were taken over by the Soviet Union. As a result, it is conceivable that these assets will not be returned.

Thirdly, Rothschild's insistence on family business also hindered its continued development. Since 1960' s, the big banks in Europe and America went public one after another and raised a lot of money. Rothschild, on the other hand, still developed with his own funds, which was slow and gradually outdated.

The prosperous history of the Rothschild family ended at the end of 19. Today, Rothschild is just an investment bank that ranks 10 to 20 in the world. Small scale, no great command ability. However, as a veteran financial giant, its influence is still not to be underestimated.

[Edit this paragraph] 4. Four wars between the Rothschild family and mankind

The first period: Before and after the French Revolution, Western European financial consortia appeared for the first time in history. Among the French aristocrats who fled to Britain during the French Revolution, there were mainly responsible persons and designers who printed and issued franc notes and French government bonds. In order to retaliate against the revolutionary government and the governor's government, and to solve their own economic difficulties, they began to print a large number of fake franc notes and French government bonds and buy goods in France. This economic process lasted about 15 years, which dealt a heavy blow to the French economic and social order. After the emperor came to power, in order to attack Britain in the opposite direction, he also hired a large number of scissors to forge fake pound notes and shilling silver coins, which successfully forced Britain to abandon the gold standard for several years. This series of unprecedented financial wars has produced huge profits and unprecedented chaos. Thus, the first generation of financial gate valves were born, including Rothschild family, Rockefeller family, dupont family family and Mellon family. Forced by war and domestic chaos, Britain, which relied heavily on the issuance of national debt, also gave the financial dominance to the Rothschild family, which accumulated huge wealth by manufacturing and circulating false securities. Rockefeller family, dupont family family and Mellon family transferred most of their wealth to a new country-the United States, and chose to continue their development in that new world country.

The second period: the Rothschild family constantly consolidated the dominant financial control right of the old continent and did not want to have a western country independent of them. Therefore, they tried to contain and influence the United States by supporting the development 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. Citigroup, Morgan and the First and Second National Bank of the United States are all under the indirect control of the Rothschild family, which reached its first peak. However, due to the excessive allocation of funds to control the new world, the Rothschild family's control in the old world declined rapidly. 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.

The third period: the original sin of capitalism: overproduction and insufficient demand led to the outbreak of World War I. The Rockefeller family, dupont 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.

The fourth period: when it was found that it was impossible to compete with the Rothschild family in the financial field, the German consortium and the American consortium came up with a new idea: to eliminate the Rothschild family itself: Jews. By supporting Hitler and 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. 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. The Rothschild family's financial institutions and assets in continental Europe, North America and Australia were all wiped out, and the few financial institutions that survived by Britain and Switzerland were difficult to recover, and gradually recovered after the war. The current global financial power is still in this period.

zionism

The Rothschild family made the greatest contribution to the Zionist movement. Baron Edmund (1845- 1934), a member of the Rothschild family in France, 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, together with the Zionist leader Weizmann, who was active in Britain during the First World War, and finally made the British government send a letter to foreign secretary Walter Belfo. Lord Rothschild published the famous Balfour Declaration in the form of letters, which eventually led to the establishment of the Israeli State.

"Even if a family company can successfully attract professional managers after exceeding a certain scale, it may not be able to make itself exist for a long time. The entrepreneurial spirit of the family may gradually weaken. The Rothschild family has maintained a vigorous entrepreneurial spirit for nearly two hundred years, which is longer than any enterprise or non-enterprise dynasty in history. However, with the development of Rothschild family company, the independence of family members is increasing. There are fewer and fewer family members, especially those who are truly capable and willing to contribute to the family company and work hard for it. Family companies eventually become enterprises managed by professionals. There may still be people at home who stay in the enterprise to work, but that is an exception, not a routine. As we all know, the Rothschild family is famous for competing with the royal family everywhere. However, even Rothschild Bank now has non-Rothschild partners. Once this happens, the family business is no longer a "family business". " Drucker's Management: Task, Responsibility and Practice