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Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth, commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and philanthropist who set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry. He was the founder of the Jewish Colonization Association, which sponsored large-scale Jewish immigration to Argentina.
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business · German financier and philanthropist (1831–1896) · businessperson · philanthropist · banker · entrepreneur · also Maurice de Hirsch, Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth, Baron Hirsch de Gereuth, Hirsch
Born 9 December 1831 · Died 21 April 1896 · Q45214
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His estate donated funds to the Pasteur Institute in Paris for the construction of their chimie biologique (biochemistry) building
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The Jewish Agricultural Society (1900-1972), funded by grants from the Baron de Hirsch Fund and the Jewish Colonization Association, provided loans to immigrant farmers and aided in the mass relocation of immigrants from
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His estate donated funds to the Pasteur Institute in Paris for the construction of their chimie biologique (biochemistry) building
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The capital was increased to £11,000,000, of which £1,250,000 went to the Treasury, after some litigation, in death duties
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Died 1896-04-21.
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The Woodbine Agricultural School (1892-1917) was founded to give immigrant students practical experience and financial assistance to purchase their own farms
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Presented to it a further sum of £7,000,000
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Hirsch established the Baron de Hirsch Fund in New York City to help Russian Jews immigrate to the USA
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The primary colony called the Woodbine Colony was funded in southern New Jersey
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Sold the Ottoman railroads to a consortium that included Deutsche Bank and Wiener Bankverein
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Hirsch bought Bath House, Piccadilly in London
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Capitalized his donations and presented the society with securities producing an annual income of £16,000
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But, feeling that this was a very lame conclusion to the efforts made in western Europe for the relief of the Russian Jews, he offered the Russian government £2,000,000 for the endowment of a system of secular education
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A benevolent trust in the United States for the benefit of Jewish immigrants, which he endowed with £493,000
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Bought the concession for railroad building in Turkey from the bankrupt "International Land Credit Company"
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Hirsch became associated with the banking house of Bischoffsheim & Goldschmidt, of Brussels, London and Paris
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Born 1831-12-09.
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