Stern family

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 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)
 * 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)