Guy de Rothschild

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Baron Guy Edouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild is a French banker and member of the Rothschild family who was born on May 21, 1909 in Paris. He chaired the de Rothschild Frères bank from 1967 to 1979 and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys.

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Guy de Rothschild is the son of the Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868–1949) and the Baroness Germaine Halphen (1884–1975). Half of his great-grandparents were Rothschilds. David René de Rothschild is the son of his first marriage with Alix Schey de Koromla (1911–1982). His second marriage was with Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1927–1996), with whom he had a son, Édouard de Rothschild.

During World War II, Rothschild was first rescued at Dunkirk and able to fight on for the Free French Forces. Later in the war, after the sinking of the cargo ship Pacific Grove, he was rescued again in the Atlantic. After the war, he reconstructed the Rothschild banking and business empire. George Pompidou who would later become President and Prime Minister of France, was recruited by him from a job as a teacher, and worked for him from 1953 to 1962, during which time he became the general manager of the Rothschild bank. When the bank was nationalized in 1981 by the socialist government of Mitterrand, Rothschild left France in anger and moved temporarily to New York. In 1987 the family banking business was restored as Rothschild & Cie Banque by his son David.

Guy de Rothschild is a renowned horsebreeder as the family owns Haras de Meautry in Normandy. He has produced prominent race horses, the most famous perhaps Exbury, and, as owner, won among others the Prix de Diane three times (1957, 1960, 1961), twice the Prix Royal-Oak, and twice the Prix Morny. Guy de Rothschild chaired the association of racehorse breeders in France of 1975 to 1982.

In 1950, Guy de Rothschild became the first president of the Fonds Social Juif Unifié (FSJU) (United Jewish Welfare Fund), the major French philanthropic agency for the Jewish community.

In 1975 Rothschild and his wife donated the Château de Ferrières to the University of Paris.

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