Moses Hutzler

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Moses Hutzler, 1888, portrait of Louis Dieterich (1842–1922)

Moses Hutzler (born November 28, 1800 in Hagenbach , † January 13, 1889 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was a German - American entrepreneur and co-founder of the first reformed Jewish community in the United States.

Moses Hutzler was the son of Gabriel and Beuleh (née Baer) Hutzler. After attending school in Hagenbach, he learned a tailor and shopkeeper. In 1838 he emigrated to the United States. He opened a women's fashion tailor shop in Baltimore, but it was unsuccessful. So he temporarily moved to Frederick, Maryland , where he opened a haberdashery store. He returned to Baltimore around 1840. In 1858 his son Abram (1836–1927) opened the company M. Hutzler & Son with him as a silent partner . With the entry of two other sons, Charles G. (1840–1907) and David (1843–1915) Hutzler, it became the Hutzler Bros. company (Hutzler brothers). Hutzler's became the most important department store in Baltimore.

In May 1842 the Har Sinai Association was founded in Hutzler's house , an association of reform-minded Jews in Baltimore, who formed a community based on the model of the Hamburg Temple Association . The meetings were initially held in Hutzler's house; it was not until 1855 that David Einhorn became the first rabbi to be permanently employed.

Since 1829 Moses Hutzler was married to Caroline Neuberger (* 1804), the daughter of the Fürth trader Eli B. Neuberger. Of their ten children, three daughters and three sons survived their father, who died in 1889.

literature

  • Mark K. Bauman: Reform at Baltimore's Har Sinai Association. (accessed December 26, 2009)
  • Michael Lisicky: Hutzler's. Where Baltimore shops. Charlestion, SC: The History Press 2009 ISBN 978-1-59629-828-6
  • sv Hutzler, Moses in: The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and molding the thought of the present time. Volume 11, New York: JT White company 1901, p. 398 ( limited preview in Google book search)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Har Sinai Congregation ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harsinai-md.org
personal data
SURNAME Hutzler, Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagenbach
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1889
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland