Königswarter family

Coat of arms of the Königswarter family

Königswarter (French: Kœnigswarter) is a Jewish Austrian-Hungarian noble family originating from Königswart, Bohemia. In the middle of the eighteenth century, their ancestor Jonas Hirsch Königswarter emigrated to Fürth, Bavaria, where he established a business that made him wealthy. At his death (1805) he left five sons, who founded banking houses successively in Frankfurt, Vienna, Amsterdam, and Hamburg.

Family tree

• Jonas Hirsch Königswarter (c. 1740–1805)
  • Hermann Hirsch Königswarter (1767–1847)
  • Markus Königswarter (1770–1850)
    • Jonas von Königswarter (1807–1871)
      • Fanny von Königswarter (1830–1852)
      • Moritz von Königswarter (1837–1893), married to Charlotte Edle von Wertheimstein (1841–1929)
        • Heinrich Königswarter (1861–1931)
        • Hermann Königswarter (1864–1915)
        • Wilhelm Königswarter (1866–1927)
    • Zacharias Markus Königswarter (1812–1872)
    • Isaac Löw Königswarter (1818–1877)
  • Simon Königswarter (1778–1854), married to Lisette Lämelsfeld von Lämel (c. 1778–1814), sister of Simon von Lämel (1766–1845)
    • Fanny Königswarter (1804–1861), married to Adolph Meyer (1807–1866)
    • Wilhelm Königswarter (1809–1887)
  • Moritz Königswarter (1780–1829)
    • Josefine Königswarter (1811–1861), married to her cousin Jonas von Königswarter
  • Julius Jonas Königswarter (1783–1845)
    • Louis Jean Kœnigswarter (1814–1878)
      • Jules Kœnigswarter (1844–1919)
        • Louis de Kœnigswarter (1870–1931)
          • Jules de Kœnigswarter (1904–1995), married to Pannonica Rothschild (1913–1988)
        • Hélène Joséphine Kœnigswarter (1873–1922), married to Gaston Calmann-Lévy (1864–1948)
        • Alice de Kœnigswarter (1878–1963), married to Fernand Halphen (1872–1917)
    • Wilhelm Königswarter (1816–1857)
      • Julius von Königswarter (1854–1918)
        • Wilhelm Königswarter (1890–1966)
    • Maximilien-Jules de Kœnigswarter (1817–1878)
      • Maurice de Kœnigswarter (1858–1938)
    • Henri Kœnigswarter (1819–1876)
      • Jules Kœnigswarter (1848–1882)

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Königswarter". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

• Drewes, Kai (2013). Jüdischer Adel: Nobilitierungen von Juden im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts. Campus Verlag. p. 353.