Frederick Marcus Warburg

Frederick Marcus Warburg (October 14, 1897 – July 10, 1973) was a Jewish-American banker from New York.

Life Warburg was born on October 14, 1897, in New York City, the son of banker Felix M. Warburg and Frieda Schiff. A member of the Jewish German-American Warburg family, his maternal grandfather was Jacob Schiff.

Warburg attended the Bovee School in New York City and the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. He went to Harvard College in 1915, where he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson and captain of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He delivered the Ivy Oration when he graduated from Harvard After finishing college, he went to Poland on an inspection trip for the Joint Distribution Committee to study relief and rehabilitation in Eastern Europe. In February 1942, during World War II, he was recommissioned to the United States Army as a major. In August 1942, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Adjutant General's Department. He was then assigned to the Special Service Division, Army Service Forces. He had an apartment in New York City, a house in Cos Cob, Connecticut, and a horse and cattle farm called Snake Hill in Middleburg, Virginia. He raised and rode hunters and jumpers in the latter. One of his horses, Battle Day, won the 1941 President's Cup at the Rhinebeck‐Dutchess County Fair. They had no children. He was also a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

Warburg died from heart disease at Memorial Hospital in Winchester, Virginia, near his farm Snake Hill, on July 10, 1973.