Joseph Leon Buttenwieser (1865–1938) was an American lawyer, philanthropist, and civic leader in New York.
Buttenwieser was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of immigrants from Germany.
[1] He helped to found the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and served as its president from 1924–1926; he was on the board of directors at the Hebrew Technical Institute, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, United Hebrew Charities, the, United Palestine Appeal, and the Associated Alumni of City College.
Their son Benjamin married Helen Lehman Buttenwieser.
[3][4] Benjamin made junior partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co., a former, well renowned investment banking firm from NYC, and was also personally chosen as Assistant High Commissioner to Germany after WWII by acting commissioner John J. McCloy.