{{Short description|Swiss banker (1857–1922)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}{{Infobox officeholder | name = Julius Baer | office = Founder and president of Julius Baer Group | birth_name = Isaac Baer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1857|1|02|df=y}} | birth_place = Heidelsheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation | death_date = {{Death date and age|1922|3|9|1857|1|02|df=y}} | death_place = Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland | citizenship = Badenian (1857–1871)<br />German (1871–1907)<br />Swiss (1907–1922) | spouse = {{marriage|Marie Ulrich|1891}} | children = 3, including Richard J. Baer | occupation = Banker and businessman | image = Julius Baer (1857-1922).png | caption = Swiss passport photo of Julius Baer issued in 1920 | term_start = 1890 | term_end = 1922 (his death) | relations = Hans J. Baer (grandson) }}
'''Julius Baer''' ({{IPA|de|bɛːɐ̯|lang}}; né '''Isaac Baer'''; born 2 January 1857 – 9 March 1922) was a German-born Swiss banker, businessman and philanthropist. Baer was the founder and namesake of Julius Baer Group, and the patriarch of the Baer family.<ref>History of Julius Baer
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== Early life and education == Baer was born in Heidelsheim (today part of Bruchsal), Grand Duchy of Baden to Joseph (1816–1891) and Rosina (née Dreyfuss; 1819–1907) Baer, into a Jewish family. His father worked as private money lender and merchant of animal skins, while his mother was a homemaker. He was the second youngest of five siblings. Baer was educated at the Jewish School of Heidelsheim and completed a banking apprenticeship at ''Bankhaus August Gerstle'' in Augsburg from 1883 to 1885.<ref name=":0">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Bär, Julius |encyclopedia=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS) |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/articles/043741/2018-01-31/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |last=Müller |first=Ueli |date=31 January 2018 |language=de}}</ref>
== Career == {{Main|Julius Baer Group}} In 1886, he became a partner in the private bank ''Samuel Dukas & Co.'' in Basel, Switzerland. A position he continued to hold until 1896, when he was deployed by his brother-in-law Ludwig Hirschhorn, to Zurich. He became a partner in ''Bank Hirschhorn, Uhl & Bär'', which existed since 1890, and is the ultimate predecessor of today's Julius Baer Group. Since 1901, the bank bore only his name, and was known as ''Julius Bär & Co.'', which became one of the leading Swiss private banks.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.juliusbaer.com/en/about-us/our-company/history/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=Julius Baer International |language=en}}</ref>
He was on several board of directors including Lake Thun railway line, Südostbahn and Oerlikon-Bührle (1908–1922).
== Family == In 1891, he married Marie Ulrich (1869–1917),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neue Zürcher Zeitung 25. Mai 1917 Ausgabe 09 – e-newspaperarchives.ch |url=http://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NZZ19170525-09.2.7.2&srpos=1 |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=e-newspaperarchives.ch |language=de}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=February 2023}} with whom he had three sons;
* Richard Josef Baer (1892–1940), mathematician and physicist * Walter Jakob Baer (1895–1970),<ref name=":0" /> director at Julius Baer * Werner Baer (1899–1960),{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}} director at Julius Baer and art collector (namely exhibited at Kunsthaus Zürich)<ref>Death Notice of Werner Baer (NZZ, 1960)
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His grandson, Hans J. Baer (1927–2011),<ref>{{Cite web |title=In memoriam: Hans J. Baer '47 '97H |url=https://www2.lehigh.edu/news/in-memoriam-hans-j-baer-47-97h |access-date=2023-02-15 |publisher=Lehigh University |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=April 2008 |url=https://www.leadersmag.com/issues/2008.2_apr/rob/baer.html |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=leadersmag.com}}</ref> was a long-term executive director and president of Julius Baer, who became known through his involvement as a mediator in retrieving Jewish funds in the Volcker Commission in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tagliabue |first=John |date=1998-01-01 |title=A Human Face for Swiss Banks; Unlikely Mediator for Dispute Over Jewish Assets |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/01/business/a-human-face-for-swiss-banks-unlikely-mediator-for-dispute-over-jewish-assets.html |access-date=2023-02-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Literature ==
* [https://nb-helveticat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22Julius%20B%C3%A4r%22&tab=LibraryCatalog&vid=41SNL_51_INST:helveticat&lang=de&offset=0 Publications about Julius Baer] in the Swiss National Library * [https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/043741/2018-01-31/ Baer, Julius] by Ueli Müller in Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS)
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