Salomon Strakosch

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About Salomon Strakosch

Salomon's birth appears in Czech Jewish Registers released July 2012; he was born January 19, 1795. Image #10 of 82 in Bučovice Births 1784-1848.

In his birth record and those of his siblings, Salomon's mother's name is Paulina Böhm; father is Löwy Strakosch.

In 1818 Salomon Strakosch became Bučovice Familiant No. 20, with the entry certifying his April 23, 1818 "approval to marry" Hany Strakosch {Johanna / Anna; was marrying her first cousin, Salomon Strakosch, Junger ("son of Lobl")}. The marriage record of Salomon & Johanna is dated May 6, 1818, in Bučovice Marriages, Haus #1, Image #10 of 31. She is listed as "Anna geb. Strakosch, dau. of Salamon, Leder-Handler." Bride was 24, groom was 23. See via http://www.badatelna.cz/fond/1073 (Bučovice)

Marie-Theres Arnbom's book Friedmann, Gutmann, Lieben, Mandl und Strakosch: Fünf Familienporträts aus Wien vor 1938 (Böhlau Verlag, Wien, 2002) lists the children of Salomon Strakosch with 1st wife [Joh]Anna [geboren Strakosch; she was his cousin] and with 2nd wife Rosalia geboren Wolf.

The children with Salomon's 1st wife [Jo]Anna geb. Strakosch, per a family tree appearing in Arnbom, are: Jonas, Pauline, Moritz, Isidor, Siegmund, Bernard, Eduard [the 6 men were partners in the eventual Gebrüder Strakosch firm]. Arnbom lists the following with the 2nd wife Rosalia Wolf: Simon, David/Dominik, Nathan, Matthias [Max?] Jakob, Julius, Leopold and Henriette.

Czech Jewish Registers shows more children born to Salomon and his wives than Arnbom listed. The others (daughters) are not yet on GENI.

In JewishGen.org Burials: Moravia

  • STRAKOSCH, Salomon b. 19 Nov 1795 [19 Jan. 1795, per Bučovice Births]-d. 21 Aug 1867 (Brno). The death record is in Czech Jewish Registers, Brno Deaths Z 1813-1875 (i), Image #178 of 224. Buried in Brno, see at Jewish Cemetery in Brno.

Salomon Strakosch was in textiles. His woolen mill, "HH. Salomon Strakosch's Söhne, für Schaffwollwaren," appears in a list of "Family firms / Brünn" on p. 541 (item #26) of Austria: Archiv für Gesetzgebung und Statistik auf den Gebieten der Gewerbe, des Handels und der Schiffahrt, Volume 15, publ. Verlag der Kaiserl.-Königl. Hof- und Staatsdr., 1863.

"In Brno three of the first seven modern steam weaving factories were established by Jews, who had previously been supplying weavers with wool. Among the larger firms was . . . those of the Popper brothers and Salomon Strakosch" (Jewish Virtual Library).

Also "Hr. Rudolf Strakosch, zu Butschowitz, für Schaffwollwaren" (#35) and "HH Gebrüder Strakosch, zu Brünn, fur Schaffwollwaren" (#9)

The firm appears in the 1844 Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia, Krakow Business Directory (Leuchs vol. 12), page 113 (image 111).

Salomon Strakosch & Söhne was among companies whose expired patent descriptions were preserved in the K.K. Politechnik Institute in Vienna, 1853 "for all to read and copy," per Wiener Zeitung, June 26, 1853, page 6. The patent (dated 1850) was for "Salomon & Jonas Strakosch, unter der Firma Salomon Strakosch & Söhne, Schafwollenwaaren-Fabrikanten in Butschowitz in Mähren, auf die Erfindung einer neuen Art von flammirtem Streichgarn zur Verfertigung neuer Wicklerstoffe" (a new way of producing cloth for wrapping [that is, diapers]).

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Salomon Strakosch the Elder was the brother of Löbl the Elder and thus the uncle of Salomon Jünger. He was married to ___ Popper(in).

Children in Bučovice Births in the Czech Jewish Registers include

  • 1789 July 14, Haus #5: Agathe (mother is called Anna; Image #6); died 1790 Dec 1, 6 mos, Haus #5
  • 1790 Sep 2, Haus #--: Ranl (?) (mother is called Eva; Image #7)
  • 1794 May 1, Haus #5: Johanna (mother appears as Katherine; Image #9). Anna married her 1st cousin, Salomon Strakosch Jünger, in 1818.
  • 1796 June 16, Haus #1; Löbl (mother appears as Heile; Image #11); Witness=Israel Strakosch
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Salomon Strakosch's Timeline

1795
January 19, 1795
Bučovice, Vyškov District, South Moravian Region, Czechia (Czech Republic)
1819
January 23, 1819
Bučovice, near Brno, Haus #1, South Moravia
1820
September 8, 1820
Bučovice, near Brno, South Moravia
1822
May 3, 1822
Bucovice, near Brno, Czech Republic
1824
March 2, 1824
Bučovice, Vyškov District, South Moravian Region, near Brno
1826
April 10, 1826
Butschowitz, Haus I
1827
October 12, 1827
Bučovice, near Brno, Haus #1, South Moravia
1828
November 4, 1828
Bučovice, near Brno, South Moravia, Czech Republic
1830
July 24, 1830
Bučovice, Vyškov, Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic