Berthold Hochschild
Berthold Hochschild was a mining magnate, a founder of the American Metal Company, and a philanthropist.Biography
Hochschild was born to a Jewish family in Biblis-on-the-Rhine, Germany, the son of Auguste Gustina and Koppel Jakob Hochschild. In 1881, his brother Zachary Hochschild, along with his cousin Wilhelm Ralph Merton and Leo Ellinger, founded Metallgesellschaft AG. In 1886, he immigrated to the United States, founding American Metal with Jacob Longeloth two years later. He had two sons, Harold K. Hochschild and Walter Hochschild, and a daughter, Gertrude Hochschild. Harold founded the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York and Walter Hochschild built an Adirondack Great Camp on Eagle Lake in 1938.
The son of his cousin was Bolivian tin baron Mauricio Hochschild.
