Stern family explained

The Stern family is a Jewish French banking family originally from Frankfurt. It traces back to Samuel Hayum Stern (1760–1819), who in the 1780s became a wine merchant in Frankfurt.

His son, Jacob Samuel Heyum Stern, started a banking business, named, in 1805 in Frankfurt. His sons expanded the family venture to Berlin, London, and Paris, of which the latter became most prominent as Bank Stern^[1] and later as J. Stern & Co.

Family tree

• Samuel Hayum Stern (1760–1819)
  • Jacob Samuel Heyum Stern (1780–1833)
    • Wolf Jacob Stern (1801–1854)
      • Saly Wilhelm Stern (1832–?)
        • Jacques Stern (1882–1949)
    • (1805–1886), banker in Paris, founder of AJ Stern & Co. (which later became Bank Stern)
      • Henriette Stern (1836–1905), married to Georges Halphen (1832–1906)
        • Fernand Halphen (1872–1917), composer
      • Jacques Stern (1839–1902), banker in Paris, co-founder of Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, married to
      • Louis Stern (1840–1900), banker in Paris, married to Ernesta de Hierschel
        • Jean Stern (1874–1962), fencer, 1908 Olympic gold medalist, married to Claude Lambert (daughter of and)
    • Julius Jacob Stern (1807–1852), a banker in Berlin
      • Julius James Stern (1835–1901)
        • Albert Gerald Stern (1878–1966)
        • Frederick Claude Stern (1884–1967)
      • (1837–1900)
      • Suzette Stern (1845–?), married to Henri Jules Fould (1837–1895)
        • Marguerite Fould (1866–1956), married to her second cousin Edgard Stern (1854–1936)
    • Leopold Stern (1810–1846), banker
    • David de Stern (–1877), banker in London, co-founder of Stern Brothers, ennobled by Luís I of Portugal in 1869
      • Sydney Stern (1845–1912)
      • Helen Stern (1847–1933), married to Charles Warde (1845–1937)
      • Edward Stern (1854–1933), London banker and philanthropist, married to: 1. Constance Jessel (1858–1918), daughter of George Jessel; 2. Sybil Grace (1887–1979), daughter of Sir Adolf Tuck
      • Alice Stern (1854–1925), married to Francis Lucas
    • Hermann de Stern (1815–1887), banker in London, co-founder of Stern Brothers
      • Emily Theresa Stern (1846–1905), wife of Edward Dutton, 4th Baron Sherborne (1831–1919)
      • Herbert Stern (1851–1919)
        • Herman Alfred Stern (1900–1984), married to Beatrice Capel (sister of Boy Capel)
      • Laura Stern, married to David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons
    • Salomon Stern (1818–1890), banker
      • Edgard Stern (1854–1937), Paris banker and art collector, married to his second cousin Marguerite Fould (1866–1956)
        • Suzanne Stern (1887–1954), married to
        • Maurice Stern (1888–1962), banker in Paris
          • Antoine Stern (1925–1995), banker, married to Christiane Laroche (divorced from Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber)
            • Édouard Stern (1954–2005), banker, married to Béatrice David-Weill (daughter of Michel David-Weill)^[2]
              • Henri Stern
              • Louis Stern
              • Mathilde Stern
          • Gerard Stern (1927–), married to Brigitte Noetzlin (granddaughter of)
            • Jerome Stern (1969–), banker in London, founder of J. Stern & Co, married to Sarah von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (daughter of Gilbert de Goldschmidt)
      • Therese Stern (1859–1935), wife of Louis Singer (son of)
  • Caroline Stern (1782–1854), married Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774–1855)

Notes and References

1. Book: Grange, Cyril . Une élite parisienne : les familles de la grande bourgeoisie juive (1870–1939) . 2016 . 978-2-271-08794-2 . Paris.
2. News: Kelley . Lora . 2022-06-25 . Michel David-Weill, Influential Lazard Banker, Dies at 89 . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-09-23 . 0362-4331.