Hesse Goldschmidt
Hesse (Ezekiel) Beer Goldschmidt (* 1689 /1690 in Kassel , † 24. April 1733 ibid) was a German citizen , businessman and founder of the company "Gebr. Goldschmidt Indigo- u. Farbwarenhandlung ".
Life
Goldschmidt came from the oldest Jewish family in Kassel, whose ancestors were the court bankers Benedikt Goldschmidt (around 1575–1642) and his son Simon Goldschmidt (around 1600–1658). Hesse Goldschmidt was the son of the headmaster of the Jewish community Simon Goldschmidt and his wife Motche. In 1710 and 1728 Hesse Goldschmidt visited the Leipzig trade fair . Around 1715 he married Sara (Sarle) Oppenheim (* 1694/1695 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 29, 1760 in Kassel), the daughter of Hertz Salomon Oppenheim, the progenitor of the Frankfurt-based banking family Oppenheim . In 1727 he received civil rights in Kassel.
In 1729 he and his wife Sarle donated a curtain for the Kassel synagogue . At that time, like his ancestors, he must have been very wealthy; in May of the same year his household included the couple and their three children as well as a nanny, two servants and two maids. In 1731, Hesse and his brother Benedikt Goldschmidt (around 1685–1737) received a special trading privilege for Waldeck .
"Gebr. Goldschmidt Indigo- u. Dye store "
Hesse Goldschmidt founded - probably with his older brother Benedikt - the "Gebr. Goldschmidt Indigo - und Farbwarenhandlung ”. In addition to running a dyes business, this company also ran a paint factory. The company was based in Hedwigstrasse 8 around 1850, and then Wolfschlucht 15 in Kassel around 1890.
After paints were no longer produced on a natural basis in later years, but mainly chemically and industrially, the company went bankrupt in 1904 under the management of the last owner Hermann Goldschmidt (1852–1924) in the fifth generation. Siegmund Goldschmidt (1805–1868), Hermann's father and great-grandson, already saw the effects of the strongly increasing industrialization in the second half of the 19th century and the associated triumph of the chemical industry , which quickly replaced the previously customary production of colors on a natural basis of the company founder Hesse Goldschmidt, not to have recognized. In 1865, for example, in a conversation with his son-in-law Carl Ladenburg , who later became an honorary citizen of Mannheim , Siegmund's father was quoted as saying: “ Although I am not confident in the potential for development of the tar paint industry, but because it is you, Carl, I want it take a few shares. "
literature
- Sigismund von Dobschütz: The ancestors of Elisabeth Goldschmidt from Kassel and Mannheim. - First publication: Hessische Familienkunde (HFK), publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Familienkunde Societies in Hessen, Volume 24, Issue 4/1998, page 161f., Verlagdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch, 1998; ISSN 0018-1064 . - New publication with additions and corrections: "Maajan - The Source", Issue 76, Swiss Association for Jewish Genealogy, Zurich 2005; ISSN 1011-4009 .
- Dr. Jona Schellekens, James Bennett and Rüdiger Kröger: From Goldschmidt to Goldsmid: An Anglo-Dutch Family From Hessen (unpublished manuscript), Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2004.
See also
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldschmidt, Hesse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beer Goldschmidt, Hesse; Beer Goldschmidt, Ezekiel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish merchant and entrepreneur in Kassel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1689 or 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1733 |
| Place of death | kassel |