Paul Moritz Warburg (August_10, 1868 - January_24, 1932) was a German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S Federal Reserve system.

Warburg was born into a successful banking family in Hamburg, Germany. He and his brothers Max Warburg and Felix Warburg were partners in the family firm of M. M. Warburg & Co., but while Max remained in Germany as head of that business, Felix and Paul moved to New York City in 1901, where they purchased partnerships in the investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., where at the time, the influential Jacob Schiff was senior partner.

Paul Warburg became known as a persuasive advocate of central banking in America, in 1907 publishing "Defects and Needs of Our Banking System" in the New York Times and "A Plan for A Modified Central Bank". His efforts were successful in 1913 with the founding of the United States' Federal Reserve, to which he was appointed a member of the first Federal Reserve Board by President Woodrow Wilson.

His son James was a financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the first years of his presidency.

The cartoon character, "Daddy" Oliver Warbucks in the Little Orphan Annie series, was purportedly inspired by the life and times of Paul Warburg. Professor Robert J. Barro holds the Paul M. Warburg chair in economics at Harvard university

See also

• Warburg
• Warburg family
• Council on Foreign Relations
• History of Central Banking in the United States
• Kuhn, Loeb & Co.

External links

• Paul Warburg's Crusade to Establish a Central Bank in the United States

References

• Birmingham, Stephen. Our Crowd. Pocket Books, 1977
• Chernow, Ron. The Warburgs. Random House, 1993
• Collins, Theresa M. Otto. Kahn - Art, Money & Modern Time. The University of North Carolina Press, 2002
• Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. A Century of Investment Banking. New York: privately printed, 1967
• Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Kuhn Loeb & Co. Investment Banking Through Four Generations. privately printed, 1955
• Warburg, Paul M. The Federal Reserve System. The Macmillan Company, 1930.

1868 births | 1932 deaths | German-Americans | History of the Federal Reserve | Paul Moritz Warburg