Rachel Zuntz

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Façade of the Zuntz coffee roastery in Bonn

Rachel Zuntz , nee Hess, also Rechle Zuntz , (* 1787 in Bonn , † 21st January 1874 founded in 1837 with her son ibid) Zuntz Leopold the coffee company A. Zuntz sel Wwe.. That from Bonn in Germany and to Belgium expanded and Was purveyor to the court of the German emperor. She was of Jewish birth and an Orthodox Jew .

Life

Rachel Zuntz was the daughter of the Mannheim-born, Jewish coffee and grocer's merchant Nathan David Hess (1756-1837), who had been working on Bonn's Judengasse since 1787, and his wife Schewar, née Wetzlar (1756-1840). She grew up in Bonn. Their son Leopold Zuntz, with whom they returned to Bonn in 1817, came from their marriage with their cousin, Amschel (Ascher) Herz Zuntz (1778–1814), who lived in Frankfurt. After the death of her father Nathan Hess in 1837, she took over her father's business through her inheritance share and in the same year founded the A. Zuntz seel company with her son Leopold Zuntz . Wb. , Later A. Zuntz sel. Wwe.

Her resting place is in the Jewish cemetery in Schwarzrheindorf .

literature

  • Marlies Lehmann-Brune: Karl Zuntz's suitcase. Five centuries of a Jewish family , Droste, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-7700-1076-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Epigraphic Database , accessed on March 22, 2014
  2. ↑ Advertising sign , accessed on March 22, 2014
  3. ^ Epigraphic database , accessed March 22, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Zuntz (1837–1976), Jewish entrepreneurial family , accessed on March 22, 2014
  5. ^ Lehmann-Brune: The suitcase of Karl Zuntz , p. 179

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personal data
SURNAME Zuntz, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zuntz, Rechle; Hess, Rechle (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1874
Place of death Bonn