Baron Louis de Rothschild

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Baron Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild (German language: Louis (Ludwig) Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild) was an Austrian baron from the famous Rothschild family. He was born in Vienna on March 5, 1882 and died in Montego Bay, Jamaica on January 15, 1955.

He was the son of Baron Albert Salomon Anselm de Rothschild. He owned a spectacular palace in Vienna, the Palais Rothschild, that housed an exquisite art collection and antiques. He was married to Baroness Clarice de Rothschild, née Montefiore. They had three children. After the Anschluß of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938, he was briefly arrested by the National Socialists because of his Jewish religion. The Nazis blackmailed and terrorised his family into giving up all their possessions for his freedom. They subsequently fled Austria, never to return.

All their possessions were plundered and subsequently "aryanised". The city-palace of the family was destroyed after the war. The baron never received most of his former belongings back, since most of the paintings were taken over by the Austrian state, who did not allow for the paintings to leave the country.