Baron Eric de Rothschild is Chair of The Rothschild Archive Trust.
Eric Alain Robert David De Rothschild, banker. Named one of Top 200 Art Collectors, ARTnews Magazine, 2004-2008. President Rothschild Foundation, Paris, National Foundation Graphic and Plastic Arts, Paris, Comite Action Sociale Israelite de Paris; member administrative council Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia, 1996.
Background
Baron Eric de Rothschild was born on 3 October 1940 in New York, United States, where his mother, Mary Chauvin you Treuil (1916-2014), had traveled for safety during the Second World War. His father, Alain de Rothschild (1910-1982), remained in France and was a German prisoner of war.
Education
Eric Alain Robert David De received an international education, in England, Paris and he then studied engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Career
Gerant Château Lafite Rothschild, Paris, since 1974, Rothschild & Cie Banque, Paris, since 1987. Chairman FRANCAREP, Paris-Orleans, Rothschild Bank AG/Zurich, Rothschild Asset Management Limited, London.
Views
Eric Alain Robert David De serves as the Honorary President of the Grand Synagogue of Paris.
He has served as the Chairman of the Shoah Memorial, a museum about The Holocaust in Paris, since 2001. In 2012, he called for the teaching of the Holocaust in French schools, to combat antisemitism and all forms of racism.
Membership
President Rothschild Foundation, Paris, National Foundation Graphic and Plastic Arts, Paris, Comite Action Sociale Israelite de Paris, member administrative council Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia, 1996.
Personality
Besides his career as a banker, Eric took over from his uncle, Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild (1917-2007), the management of the family-owned winery Château Lafite-Rothschild in 1974. In 1983 he married Maria Beatrice Caracciolo di Forino (b. 1955) and they have three children. Eric is involved in numerous Jewish and charitable organizations. Among other things, he is president of the Mémorial de la Shoah (French and Centre de documentation Juive contemporaine, (CDJC), dt Shoah Memorial), the central memorial to the Holocaust in France.
Interests
Collector of Old Masters, Modern & Contemporary Art.
Connections
Eric Alain Robert David De married to Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo di Forino on 21 December in 1983. Children: James, Anna-Saskia, Pietro.