 In a sense the brothers Bethmann – Johann Philipp, Simon Moritz and Johann Jakob – prefigured the model of "brothers co-operating internationally" perfected half a century later by the five sons of Mayer Amschel.The Rothschilds made up for their later start by becoming even richer and more powerful during the first half of the 19th century than the Bethmanns had ever been.Together the two families provided the second major push of three that occurred over four centuries in Frankfurt's commercial history.