Abraham Mendle

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Abraham Mendle (* in Kriegshaber ; † January 6, 1767 in Munich ) also written Mändle , was a horse dealer and court factor in the Bavarian region .

Life

Mendle grew up in the Jewish part of today's district of Augsburg- Kriegshaber. His father was a horse dealer. In 1706 he equipped the Augsburg Dragoon Regiment, which had been robbed of its horses after the War of the Spanish Succession . Abraham Mendle's first delivery of horses to the Bavarian Army is documented for the year 1732, with 90 horses to the Rechberg cuirassier regiment. An eight-month contract from 1735 included the delivery of bread and forage to Donauwörth and, in the later War of the Austrian Succession, the procurement of tents, cartridge pouches, bayonet domes, shotgun straps and pan balls. In 1741 he equips the newly established “Prague Regiment” with horses.

Bills prove that Mendle was commissioned to procure the horse material for the imperial coronation of Charles VII , the former Bavarian Elector Karl Albrecht on February 12, 1745 in Frankfurt. At the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756, Mendle was responsible for delivering bread, hay, wood, straw and oats to the troops. In 1758 his contract was not renewed. The new military general provisions director could not carry out his office to the satisfaction of the crown, so Mendle took over this function again.

Mendle was given the right to carry a weapon and he had to be addressed as "Lord". He had a representative at the Court War Council by the name of Lazarus Lemmle, who dealt with his legal affairs there. Abraham Mendle died in Munich on January 6, 1767. The court war council decreed that two men from the electoral Bavarian body regiment should accompany his coffin to the Jewish cemetery in Kriegshaber . After Abraham's death, Mendle's widow led a lawsuit for the final settlement of 36,838 guilders. The trial was lost and the 71-year-old widow Mendle received 100 guilders in compensation due to her plight. Business relations were continued between Abraham's son Moses Mendle and the Bavarian court.

Deliveries to the Bavarian Army

Jewish cemetery Kriegshaber (2007)

In the years 1741 to 1744 Mendle supplied the Bavarian Army with 7,857 horses, which at a unit price of 80 to 105 guilders per horse results in a turnover of over 700,000 guilders.

• Freeshaving Regiment 2146 horses
• Dragoon Regiment 4081 horses
• Artillery Regiment 1520 horses
• Freikompagnie Grenzschutz 110 horses

• Total 7857 horses

Mendle was also responsible for decommissioning the older horses, reducing and taking them back due to possible defects.

literature

• Jewish files of the Augsburg city archive

Web links

• Jewish communities in Swabia in the context of the old empire Sabine Ullmann , University of Augsburg. Institute for European Cultural History