Jakob von Hirsch

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Jakob Hirsch , from 1818 von Hirsch (born September 22, 1765 in Gaukönigshofen near Ochsenfurt , † December 24, 1840 in Planegg ), was a German banker and merchant of the Jewish faith .

Jakob von Hirsch

banker

Jakob Hirsch, the eldest son of Moses Hirsch, came from the Würzburg Judaism and, alongside Aron Elias Seligmann, was probably the most important Bavarian court factor . Jakob Hirsch opened his first bank in Ansbach in 1800 . From 1806 to 1815 he was the court banker of Ferdinand III. , the Grand Duke of Würzburg.

Jakob Hirsch, the first Jew whose family was allowed to settle in Würzburg since the 16th century, bought the Ebracher Hof after secularization (named after Ebrach Monastery , which acquired it in 1219) and founded a private bank there until the 1860s .

On August 13, 1818, Jakob von Hirsch was raised to hereditary nobility by King Maximilian I of Bavaria with the predicate "auf Gereuth" as the first Bavarian Jew. Three years later the king brought him to the Munich court as a court factor . On February 1, 1824, Hirsch was appointed court banker.

Lord of the castle

Jakob von Hirsch was the founder of the von Hirsch family . In 1815 he acquired the former prince-bishop's castle Gereuth in Lower Franconia with the estate of Gereuth and in 1824 the Hofmark Planegg a few kilometers southwest of Munich. Together with his wife Johanna Öttinger, he had eleven sons and seven daughters.

Jakob's successor in the von Hirsch auf Gereuth line was his first-born son Julius Jakob Joel von Hirsch (1789–1876), the personally strictly religious beet sugar manufacturer (from 1836 on his estate in Rottendorf ), brewery owner, timber wholesaler (from 1830 to 1848) and also became a banker and probably the most important Würzburg entrepreneur and banker in the middle of the 19th century. He left the properties in Planegg and Krailling to his second son Josef (1805–1885).

Brewery owner

One of the holdings in Planegg that Hirsch had taken over was a brewery from the 16th century. In order to produce with improved methods, he had the brewery rebuilt; St. Hubertus beer was brewed here, among other things.

family

Jakob von Hirsch was the son of the trader and goods broker Moses Hirsch (approx. 1740-1811). Jakob von Hirsch was married to Johanna Oettinger (approx. 1765–1833). Together they had u. a. the following children:

See also

literature

  • Lilian Harlander: "... a perfect brewery is close to perfection." The von Hirsch family and their castle brewery in Planegg near Munich. In: Lilian Harlander, Bernhard Purin (Hrsg.): Beer is the wine of this country. Jewish brewing stories , Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-211-7 , pp. 71-93.
  • Joseph Prys: The Hirsch family on Gereuth. Munich 1931.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 1, Franconian Society Printing Office, Würzburg 1967, p. 89 ( Ebracher Gasse ).
  2. ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, pp. 499–528 and 1306–1308, here: pp. 499–501 ( The return of the Jews to Würzburg ).
  3. ^ Horst-Günter Wagner : The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1298, note 5.
  4. ↑ Ursula Gehring-Münzel: The Würzburg Jews from 1803 to the end of the First World War. 2007, pp. 507-510 and 515 f. as well as 521 f. (to Joel Jakob von Hirsch ).
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Jakob von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsch, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish banker and merchant
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaukönigshofen
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1840
Place of death Planegg