Marx model

(Mordechai) Marx Model (* in the 17th century; † 1709 in Ansbach ) was a German-Jewish court factor in the margraviate of Ansbach .

His grandfather was the court factor Simon Model Öttingen . His daughter Sprinzel married the Ansbach court Jew, Anschel Model. Her son was Mordechai (Marx), who from 1676 also became a court factor and printer owner in Ansbach. In the 1680s he was already buying larger pieces of land that Jews were otherwise not allowed to do and trading in land. As a court and military supplier for Margrave Wilhelm Friedrich , he received great political influence. He was also in service in the associated principality of Bayreuth in 1687. In addition, he was exempted from customs duties for his goods in 1691 .

Mordechai campaigned intensively for his fellow Jews. He was head of the community in Ansbach and maintained a private synagogue with its own cantor . From 1691 to 1701 he had the monopoly on Talmudic printing for the entire margraviate. He also printed temporarily in Fürth , the Jewish headmaster there, Elkan Fränkel , accused him of embezzlement and in 1708 ousted him from his position as court factor in Ansbach. Mordechai and his sons reciprocated with the fall of Fränkel, when a process of blasphemy was opened against him in 1712 , which ended in distress and life imprisonment for Fränkel. However, the former supremacy could not be regained, numerous members of the family moved with Elias Model to Pfalz-Neuburg , where he again managed to get a less profitable court factor position. The grandson Abraham Elias Model was from Monheim from Hofaktor in Öttingen.

literature

See the stone cries out of the wall, history and culture of the Jews in Bavaria , ed. v. Bernward Deneke, exhibition catalog Nuremberg 1988/89 ISBN 978-3-926982032
Falk Wiesemann: Model . in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 17 (1994), p. 595 online version

Web links

Single receipts

^ Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: The Jewish community of Frankfurt / Main in the early modern period: Families, networks and conflicts in a Jewish center . Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023158-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 22, 2020]).
^ Rolf Kießling: Jewish history in Bavaria: From the beginnings to the present . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-039845-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 22, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Model, Marx
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Model, Mordechai; Mardochai ex Anspach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ansbacher court factor and printer
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
DATE OF DEATH	1709
Place of death	Ansbach

[1] Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: The Jewish community of Frankfurt / Main in the early modern period: Families, networks and conflicts in a Jewish center . Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023158-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 22, 2020]).

[2] Rolf Kießling: Jewish history in Bavaria: From the beginnings to the present . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-039845-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 22, 2020]).