Richard Stingl

From his son, Fred Stingl's "Story of My Life":

1. Birth.

 Born Dec 2,1874, in Marienbad.

2. Youth.

 I don't know much about my father's youth.  He went to 5 years of elementary school and 4 years of Bürgerschule (a kind of trade school) in Marienbad.  His father owned a grocery store.  In order to take it over, he had to be licensed and had to learn the "trade" as an apprentice which he did in the town of Arco, which at the time was in the Austro/Hungarian monarchy, but after World War I became and still is in Italy (near Garda Lake).

3. Marriage.

  Richard Stingl married Josefine Hahn on March 30, 1902, in Böhmisch Budweis.  As I mentioned previously, Jewish marriages were usually arranged by professional matchmakers, but in this case - according to the story - my mother's much older sister, Marie Berger, had a hand in it.

4. Profession.

 He was a businessman. After his marriage he took over (bought with his wife's dowry?) the Königsvilla and the grocery store from his father. He was a great entrepreneur and eventually added the government concessions for tobacco wholesale and retail for the entire county, a lottery agency, a salt (the government, at the time, had the exclusive control of the production/sale/service of tobacco products, matches, salt, lottery), postage stamps (sale as well as for collectors), foreign currency exchange, a stationery, newspapers and magazines, etc.  Until the beginning of World War I (1914) he had 2 beautiful horses and a license to have them "for hire". In 1914 the horses together with the coachman were drafted and never returned.  After the end of the war in 1918 he had to turn over the wholesale and retail tobacco concession to disabled war veterans.

Richard's death: He eventually came down with pneumonia and emphysema and on February 19 he died in a hospital and was cremated 3 days later. His ashes were deposited in the Jewish cemetery in Prague.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 9 2020, 22:01:08 UTC

Marriage record: ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE (o. České Budějovice) 247 O 1863-1874 (i), 1874-1940 (i), 1942-1949 (31+33/173)