Sigmund Hirsch
Sigmund Hirsch ( June 2, 1845 in Neukalen - August 24, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German entrepreneur.
Life
Sigmund Hirsch was one of six sons of Abraham Hirsch, owner of a manufactory shop in Neukalen in Mecklenburg Switzerland . Sigmund became an apprentice tanner in the Malchin . Then the years of traveling took him through Thuringia, Saxony and Bohemia to Vienna, Graz and Venice. From there he came back to Munich, Nuremberg, Schwäbisch Hall and Heidelberg. There he worked for Sigmund Oppenheimer, owner of a manufactured goods store on Heidelberg's market square, and met his employer's daughter Sophie (died January 19, 1909), whom he married on July 2, 1868. The children come from this marriage: Rosa married. Rothschild, Max (1871–1950), Julius (born 1874) and Ida married. Rothschild (born 1876).
Sigmund Hirsch leased the tannery from Albrecht and Fritz Kraft at Diebsloch in Weinheim in 1868 and bought it in 1869 together with his brother-in-law Louis Mayer. The company became the most important horse leather factory in Germany with up to 400 employees. Max Hirsch was a pioneer of horse leather tannery in southern Germany, because this branch was primarily native to the horse-rich northern German coastal area. When the 40th anniversary of Lederwerke Hirsch (on the Kapellenäckern) was celebrated on February 22, 1908, the company was the largest employer in Weinheim after Carl Freudenberg . The family lived in the Hirsch Villa on Heidelberger Strasse.
The district office Weinheim appointed after the introduction of compulsory health insurance in 1890, Sigmund Hirsch as Chairman of the newly established local health insurance Weinheim.
In 1905/06 the construction of the synagogue in Weinheim was financed by a generous donation from Sigmund Hirsch. For a long time he was head of the Jewish community in Weinheim .
Sigmund Hirsch was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Heidelberg .
Web links
- Jewish traces in Weinheim (accessed March 27, 2016)
- Jewish community Weinheim near Alemannia Judaica (with an obituary in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums of September 11, 1908)
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| SURNAME | Hirsch, Sigmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Recalculation |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1908 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |