Israel Moses Enoch

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Israel Moses Henoch (born July 20, 1770 in Berlin ; died December 22, 1844 in Dresden ) was a German entrepreneur and citizen of Berlin. His family name was Enoch's son until 1820.

Gleißen manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

In his hometown he made a living for local passenger transport. He also bought a manor in Gleißen in the Neumark , which brought the place an economic boom and an architecturally important church.

Ventures

At first, Henochsohn worked as a banker and supplier to the army.

After they had been granted the necessary privilege in 1814, he and Alexi Mortgen, of the same religion, who later changed his family name to Mortier, opened the cab institute in Berlin in 1815 . The privilege provided for at least 80 cars. The company started with 30 cabs imported from Warsaw. In the end there were 120, with the first, narrow carriages being replaced by more elegant ones based on the English model. In the vernacular one spoke of the "hackney henoch".

He bought the manor in 1818/19. Six years later he founded a silk factory in Gleißen, and the following year he opened a spa in the same place. In the next decade he donated a new church to the evangelical community of the village after winning Karl Friedrich Schinkel as architect. The church was consecrated in 1837. At the same time, he also worked as a benefactor of the Jewish community in the nearby district town of Zielenzig, now Sulęcin .

In 1836, Enoch was given the title of "Secret Commerce Councilor". On the other hand, the cab privilege was not extended in the same year and the cab system was released in Berlin, so that everyone was now allowed to operate cabs.

After Kremser had been driving from some city gates to the Berlin area since 1825 and the Berlin-Potsdam Railway was opened in 1838 , the need for public transport within the Prussian capital arose . In 1840, Israel Moses Henoch opened the first inner-city bus route between Potsdamer Bahnhof and Alexanderplatz with three horse-drawn buses .

family

One of his son was the tax collector Joseph Henoch, born 1790, died before 1848. His son Eduard Heinrich Henoch (* July 16, 1820, † August 25, 1910) was baptized in 1842 and became a famous pediatrician.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacob Jacobson, The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851 (Walter de Gruyter & Co. 1962, Google Book Search), entry no. 73 (p. 64/65)
  2. ^ German biography: Henoch, Eduard Heinrich
personal data
SURNAME Enoch, Israel Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and citizen of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1844
Place of death Dresden