Moritz
"Maurice"
von Haber
Born [location unknown]
Brother of
Henriette (Haber) Marx
Husband of
Germaine Worms de Romilly
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Ida (de Brunhoff) Bunau-Varilla, Sophie-Dorothée (de Brunhoff) Bunau-Varilla and Maurice de Brunhoff
Died about
at about age 73
in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Deutsches Reich
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Aug 2022
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Biography
Moritz von Haber (sometimes called "Maurice") was an Austrian banker and financier. He was born in 1798. Of Jewish origin, he converted to Christianity.
He was a son of Salomon von Haber and Friederike (Model) von Haber.
He married Germaine Worms de Romilly in 1819. They subsequently separated.
He later married Marianne Oppenheim.
On the death of his father in 1839, he and his brother Ludwig-Joseph von Haber took over the family bank, the Bankhaus Haber.
Moritz carried on a long affair with Sophie Wilhelmina, the grand duchess of Baden, and was rumored to be the biological father of her daughter, Cäcilie, later a Grand Duchess of Russia.
In 1843, he was involved in a scandal involving a duel, in which Georg von Sarachaga-Uria (1811-1843) lost his life.
With Gustav von Mevissen (1815-1899) and Abraham Oppenheim, Moritz von Haber was a co-founder of the Darmstädter Bank für Handel und Industrie in 1853.
With his partner Ida de Brunhoff he had a natural son Maurice de Brunhoff and natural daughters Sonia de Brunhoff, who became Sonia Bunau-Varilla, and Ida de Brunhoff, who became Ida Bunau-Varilla.
He died in around 1872.
Sources
- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_von_Haber (French Wikipedia).
- https://stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de/index.php/De:Lexikon:bio-0802 (Stadt Karlsruhe: Stadtlexikon: Moritz von Haber).
- Find a Grave, Datenbank und Bilder (https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/130641369/friederike-von_haber: aufgerufen 04 August 2022), Gedenkstättenseite für Friederike “Fradel” Model von Haber (23 Mrz 1773–21 Feb 1831), Gedenkstätten-ID bei Find a Grave 130641369, zitierend Jüdischer Friedhof an der Kriegsstraße Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Verwaltet von familyfinder (Mitwirkender 47927114; the reference is to Moritz von Haber's mother).
- Wikipedia: Esperanza de Sarachaga.
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