Aron Bonn

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Aron Bonn (also Aaron Bonn ; † August 17, 1623 ) was head of the Jewish community and a respected German-Jewish businessman in Frankfurt am Main , who worked with both the city council and Christian bankers, such as Johan von Bodeck . He was a grandson of Jakob Bonn and his wife Sprinz.

“Aaron Bonn had a prominent and generally recognized high position not only within the Jewish community. As can be seen from the council resolution of January 28, 1591, which granted Aaron his own key to one of the gates of Judengasse , the city of Aaron considered Bonn not only an important businessman, but also worthy of protection. Because Aaron often had to knock at the gate for a long time and wait a long time, after he was only able to return to Judengasse from his trading business with citizens of the city. "Bad boys" used this several times to harass him, which was not to be tolerated. "

He had the Fröhlicher Mann house built in Judengasse around 1565 .

One of Bonn's descendants, Isaak Herz Bonn, was legally represented by Goethe's father Johann Caspar Goethe in 1768 in a bill of exchange lawsuit for damages against Alexander Jakob Rindskopf .

His later descendants ran the Baruch Bonn bank in the 19th century .

Literature (selection)

  • Alexander Dietz, Isobel Mordy: The Jewish community of Frankfurt: a genealogical study 1349–1849 . Vanderher Publications, 1988, ISBN 0-9514158-0-8 .
  • Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: The Jewish community of Frankfurt / Main in the early modern period: families, networks and conflicts in a Jewish center . De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023157-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital Edition - Jewish Cemetery Frankfurt / Main, Battonnstrasse (1272–1828 / 3614 entries): Inv.-No. 0057
  2. ↑ a b Goethe as lawyer for Jewish clients in Frankfurt 1771–1775  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 3, RTF file (33.5 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / benoehr.rewi.hu-berlin.de  
  3. ↑ Alexander Dietz: Frankfurt trade history . tape 2 . D. Auvermann, 1970, p. 51, 55 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Infobank Judengasse Frankfurt
  5. ↑ Kasper-Holtkotte: The Jewish community of Frankfurt / Main in the early modern period, 2010. P. 72–73
  6. ↑ a b Infobank Judengasse Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Bonn, Aron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonn, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish businessman
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1623