Tugendhat Explained

The Tugendhat family was a family of Czech-Jewish textile and oil industrialists. World War II scattered them through Europe and America, and descendants have become influential politicians and academics.

Family name

• Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat (born 1937), a British Conservative politician, businessman
• Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat (born 1946), Venezuelan born, Swiss-Austrian art historian
• Ernst Tugendhat (1930–2023), Czech-German philosopher
• Michael Tugendhat (born 1944), judge of the High Court of England and Wales, brother of Christopher Tugendhat
• Tom Tugendhat (born 1973), British Conservative politician, son of Sir Michael Tugendhat

See also

• Villa Tugendhat, house in Brno, Czech Republic, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Tugendhat chair, a chair designed by Mies for the Villa Tugendhat
• 8343 Tugendhat, a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1986 by A. Mrkos