Robert Philippe Gustave De Rothschild

Place: Paris

Born: 1880

Death: 1946

Biography:

Robert Philippe Gustave de Rothschild was a French banker, philanthropist and polo player. He was born on 19 January 1880 in Paris, France, to Baron Gustave de Rothschild and Cécile Anspach. He was a banker and during World War II, he was on the Nazi blacklist and his French citizenship was nullified by the Vichy government because he was Jewish. He escaped to England and emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in August 1940. He supported Jewish causes in France and later New York City, and after the war, he supported efforts to revive Jewish life in France. He was a four-goal polo player and the founder of the Deauville International Polo Club in 1907. He organized the Laversine Open Polo Cup on the grounds of his chateau Laversine in Saint-Maximin. He also organized tournaments in Apremont in 1920. He won the International Paris Tournament in 1907 and the Paris Open in 1920. He married Gabrielle Nelly Régine Beer on 6 March 1907 and they had two sons and two daughters. He died of pneumonia on Christmas Day, 25 December 1946 in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 66.