[Warburg family]

The file contains several documents regarding the Warburg family in Hamburg. The Warburg family is a prominent German and American banking family of German Jewish and originally Venetian Jewish descent, noted for their varied accomplishments. The family established itself in Altona, near Hamburg in the 17th century, after the Thirty Years' War, and it was in Hamburg that M. M. Warburg & Co. was established in 1798, among the oldest still existing investment banks in the world. The will and wealth of Marianne Zagury, born as Warburg should be intended for the foundation of a pension widow fund for rabbi widows of the German-Israeli Synagogue Association, called the Mariannen Pensions Fund. An other document informs about the meaning of the Hamburg law, regarding the exit from a stately recognized religious community from 12.12.1888. The question is asked whether the resignation only relieves the citizen of his or hers obligations towards the religious community or whether he or she also renounces his or hers religion. Furthermore handwritten correspondences are attached.