Lehman family

Lehman family
Emanuel Lehman
Herbert Henry Lehman
Arthur Lehman Goodhart
Current regionNew York, U.S.
Place of originBavaria, Germany
FounderAbraham Lehman
Connected families

The Lehman family (also Lehmann, Liehmann or Liehman) is a prominent family of Jewish German-Americans who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers. Some were also involved in American politics. Members have married into the prominent Morgenthau, Loeb, and Bronfman families.

The family traces back to Abraham Lehmann, a cattle merchant in Rimpar, Bavaria, who changed his Yiddish (German-Jewish) surname Löw (Loeb) to the German Lehman.