um 1730 - 1786 (~ 56 Jahre)| Name | Josua Uffenheimer | |
| Geboren | um 1730 | Hohenems, Vorarlberg, Österreich  |
| Geschlecht | männlich | |
| Occupation/Beruf | nach 1753 | Kippenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland |
| Kaufmann, Geldverleih, Textilhandel | ||
| Occupation/Beruf | von 1766 | Innsbruck, Tirol, Österreich |
| Inhaber des Salzmonopols | ||
| Occupation/Beruf | von 1768 | Kippenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland |
| Textilfabrikant (Wolle, Leinen,Seide) | ||
| Biography | Josua Uffenheimer was born in Hohenems about 1730, as the son of Jonathan Uffenheimer, a succesful merchant. After Josua Uffenheim moved from Hohenems to Kippenheim in the Breisgau provinces of Baden, he opened a textile and linen retail store (Stoffe und Wäsche). He must have built the business to sizable proportions since he paid a hefty 30 gulden annual tax. His purchases of inventory from places such as distant Tirol and Switzerland brought highly desired tolls into the local authorities’ coffers. Such sources of income endeared the Jew to the ruling gentry. Uffenheimer extended his business activity to money lending. He also dealt with the kaiserliche Armee, supplying it with goods brokered from local sources. For example, as purchasing agent in 1754, he handled an expenditure of 4,100 gulden. With Brother Gabriel Uffenheimer he was also an operator of a salt monopoly (Salzmonopols) located in Innsbruck. Josua Uffenheimer’s main claim to fame was taking over a near bankrupt textile manufacturing plant that produced wool, linen, and silk goods (Woll-Leinen-Seiden). In 1764, the factory had been set up by two Swiss businessmen in the prison at Breisach, utilizing detainees to produce the goods. In 1768, the vorderösterreichische “Commercien-Concerns” asked Uffenheimer to undertake the rehabilitation of the business and turn it into a more productive enterprise. This he did with a flourish, bringing in textile manufacturing experts to train and supervise the workers, as well as new machinery to increase productivity. His main distributors were Jewish merchants of the area. He sold his goods to markets as far away as Bohemia and Northern Italy. In 1773, Uffenheimer also accepted the offer by Abbey Karl Vogler to establish a cotton spinning and weaving mill on the premises of the Cloisters of Schuttern. While it was rather unusual to extend such an invitation to a Jew, it nevertheless served the economic interests of the Church, which benefited from the taxes that would be levied on the production. The Breisacher operation busied some three to four hundred workers, while the Schuttern branch maintained forty spinning wheels, twelve weaving stations, five factory hands, one dye worker, one outfitter, and one accountant. Uffenheimer’s two textile enterprises were so successful that he is recognized as one of the key eighteenth century figures in the development of textile industries in Germany. Source: This entry is based mainly on Werner L. Frank, THE EARLY UFFENHEIMER FAMILY, Calabasas, California USA, January 2002, JMH Archive Other sources: - Jürgen Stude, Der Kaiserlich-Königliche “Fabriquewesen-Entrepreneur” Josua Uffenheimer aus Kippenheim, in: Historischer Verein, Mittelbaden - Schicksal und Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden, F.X. Stückle, Ettenheim, 1988 p. 362ff - Hans David Blum, Juden in Breisach, Hartung-Forre Verlag, Konstanz, 1998, p. 113ff - Jacob Toury, Jüdische Textilunternehmer in Baden-Württenberg, 1683-1938, J.C.B. Hohr, Tübingen, 1984 | |
| Gestorben | 1786 | Kippenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland |
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| Personen-Kennung | I14980 | Hohenemser Genealogie | Hohenemser Nachkommen, Hohenemser Recherche, Innsbrucker Nachkommen, Innsbrucker Recherche |
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| Vater | Jonathan Uffenheimer, geb. um 1680, Uffenheim, Bayern, Deutschland ? , gest. nach 1758 (Alter ~ 79 Jahre) | |
| Mutter | May, geb. um 1680, Innsbruck, Tirol, Österreich | |
| Verheiratet | um 1700 | Innsbruck, Tirol, Österreich |
| Familien-Kennung | F32616 | Familienblatt |
| Familie 1 | Zipporah, gest. Kippenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland | |||||||||||
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| Familie 2 | Breinle ?, gest. um 1788, Kippenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland | |||||||||
| Verheiratet | nach 1770 | |||||||||
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