Joachim Popper

Joachim Popper (* 1730 in Bresnitz , † 1795 in Prague ) (later Joachim Edler von Popper ) was a Jewish entrepreneur and court factor in Austria .

He traded in whalebone and had intensive business relationships with the Bohemian nobility as well as with the Habsburgs, who gave him great political influence. During the Seven Years' War he was a supplier to the Austrian Army. In the 1780s he founded a foreign exchange trading company in Vienna with the capital he had acquired. At the same time he was also involved in the tobacco trade. In 1790 he was knighted.

After his death, Joachim Popper was buried in the Jewish cemetery (Žižkov) .

Sources and literature

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Yews in Eastern Europe: Popper Family.
• Josef Karniel: The policy of tolerance of Emperor Joseph II. From d. Hebrew by Leo Koppel. Gerlingen 1986, ISBN 3-88350-454-8 .
• Samuel Krauss: Joachim Edler of Popper. A picture of time and life from the history of the Jews in Bohemia. 1926.
• William O. McCagg: A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918. Bloomington, Ind. 1989, ISBN 0-253-33189-7 .
• Jan Županič: The emergence of the Jewish nobility in the Habsburg monarchy. In: Ashkenaz - magazine for the history and culture of the Jews. 17th year, issue 2, 2007, special edition, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-484-98612-2 , pp. 473-497.
• Jan Županič: Židovská šlechta podunajské monarchy. Mezi Davidovou hvězdou křížem. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha 2012, ISBN 978-80-7422-180-4 , pp. 537-540.