Ofer Brothers Group

The Ofer Brothers Group is an Israeli family business owned by the Ofer family. The Ofer family owns one of the largest private shipping companies in the world.

Sammy Ofer, KBE (born 22 February 1922), in Romania, and brother Yuli Ofer, born in Bat Galim, Haifa in 1924, established the Ofer Brothers shipping company in the 1950s. The Ofer Holdings Group deals in property in Israel and overseas. The company has branched out into aviation, high-tech, private equity, media and real estate. It is chaired by 50% owner Udi Angel.

Shares in Israel Corporation, one of Israel's largest holding companies, were acquired by the Ofer family in 1999, with Ofer Holdings acquiring a stake as part of the extended group. The company's holdings include Zim, Israel Chemicals, Oil Refineries Ltd (BAZAN) in Haifa, Bank Mizrahi, Tower Semiconductor Ltd and more.

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Muthoot Family

The Muthoot family is one of the foremost business houses in South India. The family has interests in various sectors of business varying from Financial Services to Media. The founder of the Muthoot Group was Ninan Mathai Muthoot, from whom the business house was later taken over by his son, M George Muthoot. The family traces its roots to the small town of Kozhencherry in Central Travancore.

The Muthoot family are Christians belonging to the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, and is one of the most influential members among the Christian community in Kerala. M. G. George Muthoot, the third son of M. George Muthoot became the Trustee of the Malankara Orthodox Church in March 2007.

India Today rated the Muthoot Family among the most influential business houses in Kerala. Dhanam (Wealth), a business magazine in Kerala, also rated Muthoot as one of the foremost business families of Kerala.

The Muthoot M. George Charitable Trust reaches over 20,000 people in need of assistance every year. The Trust is engaged in various activities such as Disaster Relief, Community Development and Social Welfare.

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Monneron family

The Monneron family was a French family of businessmen and politicians, best known for the Monneron brothers.

It originated in the small village of Ampurany near Tournon-sur-Rhône, but set up shop in Chanos since 1550. Antoine Monneron and his wife Barbe Arnault had 20 children, 8 dying in infancy. They lived successively in Antibes, Tournon (1737), and Annonay (1739) where Antoine bought the position of receiver of the grenier à sel tax. Antoine was also lawyer to the Parlement and controller-general of the Fermes du Roi to the Parlement d'Antibes.

Bank

Les Frères Monneron was built up in England by Matthew Boulton, thanks to the steam engine of James Watt, producing 2 and 5 sols coins in great quantities in the Soho factory in Birmingham from the end of 1791.



hese pieces of necessity money eased the coinage shortage then current in France and their technical and aesthetic quality was much superiour to mediocre base metal issues produced by official sources.

In March 1792, the Monnerons went bankrupt and Pierre fled. His brother Augustin took over the business, but a law of 3 May 1792 forbade the production of money by private concerns. In September a decree forbade the commercialisation of confidence-coins. These necessity coins were in circulation until the end of 1793.

Family tree

o Antoine III Monneron 1703-1791
o Antoine Nicolas Monneron 1733-1733
o Charles Claude Ange Monneron 1735-1799
o Antoine Joseph Monneron 1736-1815
o Joseph-Camille Monneron 1792
o Claudine-Sophie Monneron 1795
o Olimpe Monneron 1797
o Jean Antoine Monneron 1737
o Pierre Antoine Monneron 1773-1800
o Herminie Monneron
o Eucharie Monneron 1797-1815
o Egérie Monneron 1800
o Louis Nicolas Monneron 1775-1817
o Ernest Nicolas Antoine Monneron 1818
o Alice Monneron
o Marie Amélie Henriette Monneron 1847-1914
o Marie Céline Monneron
o Henriette Monneron
o Louis Henri Monneron 1738-1739
o Catherine Thérèse Monneron 1740-1740
o Gaspard François Monneron 1741-1825
o Louisa Monneron 1789
o Malcy Monneron 1794-1856
o Jean Louis Monneron 1742-1805
o Lise Monneron
o Cécile Monneron
o Giron François Monneron 1743-1747
o Jean Marie Monneron 1744-1811
o Marie Elisabeth Monneron 1745
o Pierre Antoine Monneron 1747-1801
o Amédée Monneron
o Adèle Monneron
o Aurore Antoinette Marie Zoé Monneron +1805
o Aurore Monneron
o Jeanne Lucille Mézereon Monneron 1796-1848
o Paul Mérault Monneron 1748-1788
o Gaspard Claude Monneron 1749-1749
o Barbe Catherine Madeleine Monneron 1750-1750
o Jeanne Françoise Etiennette Monneron 1751-1752
o Pierre Madeleine Monneron 1753-1753
o Jean Chrysostome Janvier Monneron 1754-1811
o Charles Monneron 1795-1857
o Elisabeth Monneron 1796-1838
o Jenny Monneron 1798-1874
o Aristide Monneron 1799-1834
o Janvier Auguste Monneron 1822-1877
o Marie Antoine Aristide Monneron 1848-1878
o Augusta Philomène Marie Monneron 1849-1911
o "Marie Véronique Nathalie Monneron 1851-1928
o Marie Josèphe Emilie Monneron 1854-1896
o Augusta Marie Zoé Monneron
o Alcide Monneron 1800-1879
o Joseph François Augustin Monneron 1756-1826
o Augustine Monneron
o Nn Monneron
o Paul H Monneron
o Hattie Monneron 1889-1966
o Jeanne Marie Jacobé Monneron 1758-1799
o Gaspard Monneron

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Molson family

The Molson family of Montreal, Quebec, Canada was founded by John Molson who emigrated to Canada in 1782 from his home in Lincolnshire, England.

John Molson's success saw him and his offspring build Canada's largest brewery (Molson), finance its first steamboat and build the first railroad. His sons established Molson's Bank which printed its own currency and in the city of Montreal that was overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, they financed the construction of a Protestant church.

Senator Hartland Molson, a businessman and statesman, expanded the family's brewing operations nationwide, purchased the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, and served as Governor of McGill University.

Philanthropy

Major contributors to the economy, the Molson family gave back by creating the Molson Foundation to fund philanthropic projects.

William, Thomas and John Molson, Jr. provided McGill University's first endowed chair, the Molson Chair in English Language and Literature. In addition, in 1860 William Molson donated Molson Hall, the west wing of the university's Arts Building. Later generations of the Molson family provided funds to expand the university's medical buildings as well as a gift of land for the Redpath Library.

The Molson Family Foundation, together with several members of the family, contributed the major part of the funds required for the construction of the Molson Fine Arts Building at Bishop's University. The building bears witness to the interest of members of the Molson family in the welfare of Bishop's University over a period of more than sixty years:

Walter Molson, Trustee 1928-1951 John H. Molson, President of Corporation 1947-1966 J. David Molson, Trustee 1965-1968 William M. Molson, Trustee 1968-1976 Eric H. Molson Trustee, 1976-1984

Notable members of the Molson family

* John Molson (1763-1836)
* Percival Molson (1880-1917)
* Hartland Molson (1907-2002)
* William Molson (1793-1875).
* William Hobart Molson (1888-1951)

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Mendelssohn family

The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and include his grandson the composer Felix Mendelssohn.

Moses Mendelssohn was a significant figure in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany. Of his 6 children, only Recha and Joseph, retained the Jewish faith. Abraham Mendelssohn, because of his conversion to christianity, adopted the surname Bartholdy at the suggestion of his wife's brother, Jakob Salomon Bartholdy, who had adopted the name from a property owned by the Salomon family.



In 1795 the eldest son Joseph Mendelssohn established the bank Mendelssohn & Co. in Berlin and his brother Abraham joined the company in 1804. Many members of the family worked for the bank until it was forced to shut down in 1938. In 2004 relatives of the banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1875-1935), lead by his great-nephew Prof Julius H Schoeps (born 1942), tried to reclaim paintings once owned by him and later sold in the 1940s by his widow in breach of his will.

The family members include:

* Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), philosopher, married Fromet Gugenheim (1737-1812); 6 children

* Dorothea Mendelssohn (1763-1839), married (i) Simon Veit, (ii) Friedrich von Schlegel

* Jonas Veit (1790-1854)
* Philipp Veit (1793-1877)

* Recha Mendelssohn (1767–1831)
* Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), banker

* Benjamin (Georg) Mendelssohn (1794–1874), geographer
* Alexander Mendelssohn (1798–1871), banker

* Marie Mendelssohn (1822–1891), married Robert Warschauer (1816–1884), banker

* Anna Warschauer (1841–1866), married Ludwig Passini (1832–1903), painter
* Marie Warschauer (1855-1906), married Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1846–1909) see below (A)

* Margarete Mendelssohn (1823–1890), married Otto Georg Oppenheim (1817–1909), jurist

* Hugo Oppenheim (1847–1921), banker, married Anna Oppenheim (1849–1931)

* Else Oppenheim (1873–1945), married Josef Block (1863–1943), painter

* Robert Hugo Oppenheim, banker, married Charlotte Simon

* Anna Luise Block (1896–1982), publicist; married: (ii) Heinrich Hauser (1901–1955), writer; (iii) Alfred Winslow Jones (1900–1989), hedge fund pioneer

* Franz Oppenheim (1852–1929), chemist
* Clara Oppenheim (1861–1944), married Adolf Gusserow (1836–1906), gynecologist

* Franz von Mendelssohn (1829–1889), banker

* Robert von Mendelssohn (1857–1917), banker, married Giulietta Gordigiani, pianist

* Eleonora von Mendelssohn (1900–1951), actress, married Martin Kosleck, actor
* Francesco von Mendelssohn (1901–1972), cellist, theatre director

* Franz von Mendelssohn (1865–1935), banker, married Maria Westphal (1867-1957), see below (B)

* Lilli von Mendelssohn (1897–1928), violinist, married Emil Bohnke, violist and composer

* Robert-Alexander Bohnke (1927–2005), pianist

* Robert von Mendelssohn (1902–1996), banker

* Clara Mendelssohn (1840–1927), married Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), psychiatrist

* Alexander Carl Otto Westphal (1863–1941), neurologist
* Anna Westphal (1864–1943), married Eduard Sonnenburg (1848–1915), doctor
* Marie Westphal (1867–1957), married Franz von Mendelssohn (1865–1935), see above (B)

* Henriette (Maria) Mendelssohn (1775-1831)
* Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1776-1835), banker, married Lea Salomon, granddaughter of Daniel Itzig; 4 children

* Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) married Wilhelm Hensel (1794-1861)

* Sebastian Ludwig Felix Hensel (1830-1898) married Julie von Adelson

* Cécile Hensel (1858-1928) married Friedrich Leo (1851-1914)
* Paul Hensel (1860-1930), philosopher
* Kurt Hensel (1861-1941), mathematician

* Albert Hensel (1895–1933), law professor
* Charlotte Hensel (1896–1990), married Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist

* Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), composer married Cécile Charlotte Sophie Jeanrenaud (1817–1853)

* Karl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1838-1897), historian

* Cécile von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1870-1943), married Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1868-1949), see below (C)
* Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874-1936), law professor, married Dorothea Wach (1875-1949), see below (D)

* Marie Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1839-1897)
* Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841-1880), chemist

* Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1868-1949), banker, married Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1870-1943), see above (C)
* Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1879-1956), chemist

* Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1843–1850)
* Elisabeth Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1845-1910) married Adolf Wach

* Felix Wach (1871-1943)

* Joachim Wach (1898-1955)

* Dorothea Wach (1875-1949) married Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1874-1936), see above (D)

* Rebecka Mendelssohn (1811-1858) married Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), mathematician
* Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1812–1874), banker

* Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1846–1909), banker, married Marie Warschauer (1855–1906), see above (A)

* Katharine von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1870–1943)
* Charlotte von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1871–1961)
* Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1875–1935), banker
* Enole Marie von Schwerin (1879–1947), married Albert Constantin von Schwerin (1870–1956), diplomat
* Marie Busch (1881–1970), married Felix Busch (1871–1938), state official

* Dorothea Busch (1915–1996), married Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909–1980), theologian

* Julius H. Schoeps (born 1942), historian

* Alexander von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1889–1917)

* Nathan Mendelssohn (1781-1852) instrument maker, married Henrietta Itzig, cousin of Lea Soloman and granddaughter of Daniel Itzig

* Arnold Mendelssohn (1817-1854)
* Ottilie Mendelssohn (1819-1848) married Ernst Kummer (1810-1893), mathematician

* Marie Elisabeth Kummer (1842-1921) married Hermann Schwarz (1843-1921), mathematician

* Wilhelm Mendelssohn (1821-1866)

* Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933) composer

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