Marriage and Child
At his home in Vaucresson, on 1 June 1939, Mannheimer married Marie Annette Reiss (1917–2004). Born in China, she was one of three daughters born to Hugo Reiss, a German Jewish diplomat who served as Brazil's consul in Shanghai, China, and his American-born Catholic wife, Ignatia Mary Murphy. According to the Time profile, Mannheimer, who had long been obese and in ill health, suffered a heart attack during the wedding and had to be revived with two injections. The best man was Paul Reynaud, the French minister of finance and later French prime minister; the banker also was a close friend of prime minister Édouard Daladier.
The couple had one child, Anne France Mannheimer, later known as Anne France Engelhard. She was born on 24 December 1939, six months after her parents' marriage and four months after her father's death. (Commonly called Annette, she later became the second wife of the American fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.)
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