Hermann Christian (Hirsch / Herz Moses) Wittgenstein

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Hermann and Fanny Wittgenstein had eleven children.

Hermann Christian (b. September 12, 1802 in Korbach; d. 1878 in Vienna) who moved the business to Gohlis at the end of the 1830s. From there, the family continued to prosper financially. In 1938, to escape Nazi racial laws and to be reclassified as half Jewish, his descendants claimed that Herman Christian was not the son of Moses Meyer-Wittgenstein but rather the illegitimate offspring of a prince of the House of Waldeck. Although the claim was probably made up, it was somewhat substantiated by the princely protection enjoyed by the Wittgensteins when they were living in Hesse.

After Hermann Christian converted to Protestantism he married Fanny Figdor in 1839. She came from one of the most important business families in Vienna.

In 1850 the family moved to Vösendorf (Mödling district) in Austria. The family moved again in 1860 to Vienna, where he was involved in the furniture industry, and was financially extremely successful.

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