Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg

Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg (1788)

Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg (born October 30, 1724 in Kuttenplan ; died January 19, 1808 in Vienna ) was an Austrian-Jewish tobacco dealer and was the first Jew to be ennobled in Austria .

The merchant's son received training in the Bible and Talmud from his father. At the age of 13 he attended a Talmud school in Prague , but had to start his father's business at the age of 16. He got to know the tobacco trade and with his brother Moses he leased the tobacco monopoly for Prague in 1652 and later for other countries as well. In the Seven Years' War , he was a reliable military supplier, for which he Maria Theresa in 1761 a charter gave what he, settle everywhere in the Bohemian and Moravian-Silesian hereditary states where Jewish communities were Houses buy, build and was allowed to operate any Jews allowed trade. In 1764 the Hönig brothers took over the management of the Moravian-Silesian lending bank, for which the family received a new 15-year charter in 1777 to build wholesale stores in the German and Galician hereditary countries. When in 1776 there was a shortage of wax candles in Vienna , they were remedied by a delivery from Galicia , whereupon they were given the privilege to set up a wax factory in Vienna. His treaty left Israel in 1783, whereupon Emperor Joseph II appointed him councilor and "Tobacco and Seal Gradient Director", and the following year "Bank Director". In 1789 the emperor gave him the hereditary nobility with the title Edler von Hönigsberg. But he encountered anti-Jewish resistance when he wanted to take possession of the Velm estate.

After his death, Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Währing (group 4, grave number 393). In 1941 he was exhumed and reburied in the New Jewish Department of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gate IV).

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Hönig Edler von Hönigsberg, Israel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, p. 121 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

HÖNIG, ISRAEL (EDLER VON HÖNIGSBERG) - JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .

Individual evidence

^ However, in 1726 Diego d'Aguilar received the hereditary barony.
^ Hönigsberg Israel in the cemetery database of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , accessed on April 8, 2020.
↑ Patricia Steines: Hundred Thousand Stones. Grave sites of great Austrians of Jewish denomination on the Vienna Central Cemetery Gate I and Gate IV . Falter Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85439-093-9 , p. 308.

personal data
SURNAME	Hönig von Hönigsberg, Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jewish-Austrian tobacco dealer and nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cowl plan
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1808
Place of death	Vienna

[1] However, in 1726 Diego d'Aguilar received the hereditary barony.

[2] Hönigsberg Israel in the cemetery database of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , accessed on April 8, 2020.

[3] Patricia Steines: Hundred Thousand Stones. Grave sites of great Austrians of Jewish denomination on the Vienna Central Cemetery Gate I and Gate IV . Falter Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85439-093-9 , p. 308.