Moses Israel prince

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Moses Israel Fürst (born 1617 ; died after 1692 in Hamburg ) was a German-Jewish merchant .

As a member of a Hanseatic merchant family, he worked, among other things, as a banker and court Jew in Hamburg and northern Germany. His grandfather was Chajim prince , his father Moses prince. On August 14, 1688, he and his business partner Michael Hinrichs (also called Michel Henrichs or Michel Henricus in literature) from Glückstadt bought the tobacco monopoly in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , which he held until 1692.

He acquired this privilege on the recommendation of Abraham Hagen , whose relatives Michael Hinrichsen and Moses Israel Prince were. On November 16, 1692, Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I confirmed this privilege.

The Goldschmidt family included the well-known merchant Glikl bas Judah Leib , who entered history as the model of the emancipated Jewish woman of the 17th century.

The date of death of Moses Israel Prince is currently not exactly documented. Some sources state that he died at the end of 1692 because the Duke's contract on the tobacco monopoly was extended that year, but instead of Moses Israel Fürst, Bendix Goldschmidt joined the lease with Michael Hinrichsen in January 1673 . Many representations take this fact as an opportunity to assume that the Prince of Moses Israel would die in 1692. However, some say that he merely quit business. In 1692 he was already 75 years old and therefore it would seem obvious that he would "retire".

literature

  • Wilhelm Stieda: The tobacco monopoly in Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1688-1699, 1910 Lexikus online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monthly for the History and Science of Judaism , Volumes 43–44, page 327.
  2. ^ Monthly for the history and science of Judaism , Volumes 8–9, page 64.
  3. ^ Heinrich Schnee: The court finance and the modern state: history and system of court factors at German princely courts in the age of absolutism. Vol. 2, p. 296
  4. ^ Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher , Volume 78, Page 375.
  5. ↑ Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher , Volumes 75-76, page 190.
  6. ^ The court finance and the modern state: history and system of court factors at German princely courts in the age of absolutism. Volume 2, page 296/297.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Stieda : The tobacco monopoly in Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1688-1699. 1910.
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Moses Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jewish merchant
DATE OF BIRTH 1617
DATE OF DEATH 17th century or 18th century
Place of death Hamburg