Leopold Wolf's sons
The wine store Leopold Wolf's Sons , based in Unterberg-Eisenstadt , a cadastral municipality of Eisenstadt in the federal state of Burgenland in Austria , was an internationally active trading company in the 19th and 20th centuries.
history
In Eisenstadt, Benjamin Wolf Austerlitz, who died around 1718, can be traced for the first time, who probably came to Eisenstadt as a Viennese exile before 1690 via Nikolsburg and was one of the founders of the re-established Jewish community .
His great-grandson Joachim took over the original first name Wolf to his family name for the first time . In 1790 he was the founder of the Wolf wine shop, which became known in the late 19th and 20th centuries as Leopold Wolf's Söhne wine wholesaler .
At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, the company bought wines from the area and exported them to Vienna and the surrounding area, soon to Bohemia , Moravia , Austrian and Prussian Silesia , as well as to Russian Poland and southern Germany. In the 1850s, Adolf and Ignaz Wolf (born August 30, 1841 in Eisenstadt; died January 18, 1906 there) joined the company as partners at the side of their father Leopold Wolf. After his death in 1866, the two brothers became owners of the company.
When phylloxera destroyed the vines of France around 1880, the Wolf company exported large quantities of wine to France. In 1885 the company acquired the Wiener Weinhandlung Bauer. In 1890 the company set up a branch in Fiume that imported Dalmatian and Italian wines. After the ban on the sugaring of wines in Hungary , the company relocated its sweet wine production to Ebenfurth in 1908 . From 1901 the company owners were Ernst Wolf, Leopold Wolf and Alexander (Sándor) Wolf. Sándor Wolf was the founder of the Wolf Museum and owner of four of the five buildings that have housed the Burgenland State Museum since 1939 .
Aryanization
In March 1938, Sándor Wolf was arrested by the Gestapo in the course of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich and forced to give up his property and his collection. Wolf fled with his sister Frieda Löwy via Fiume and Trieste to Palestine , where he bought a country estate in Haifa .
Wertheimerhaus
The Wertheimerhaus was acquired by the Wolf family in 1875, who set up the headquarters of the Leopold Wolf's Söhne wine shop in it, in addition to apartments for family members and servants . The Wertheimerhaus was owned by the Wolf family for 75 years.
