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About Samuel Reif
Birthdate (and death date) are found in Geburtstags Merkbuch / Birthday Book of Ernestine Reif Schlesinger, in possession of Janet Lindner, ERS's great-grandaughter. Entry by Ernestine Reif Schlesinger.
Birth record appears in Czech Jewish Registers at www.badatelna.cz/fond/1073, Uherský Ostroh Births 1830-1846, Image #6/55 (link is broken, but see in MEDIA). A valid link is here. Parents are Isak Reif and Esther (no surname); listed as unmarried. The name of Schmaya Adler, Betti's grandfather, appears at far right on the birth record.
On August 10, 1849, the births of Samuel, Emanuel and Jakob Reif were re-entered together in Uhersky Ostroh Births 1849-1875, Image 7, with the parents marked as "married." They had been married on June 1 (or 21), 1849.
In later years in Uherský Ostroh, the name Samuel Reif appears on many birth records in connection with male children's "amtlichen beschneidungs" (official circumcision).
With his brother Jacob Reif, Samuel grew / traded barley (for beer-making). Jacob lived in Ung. Ostroh even after Samuel was in Vienna. The business, called Sam. & Jac. Reif, was registered as a public company on January 1, 1864, as published in Morawske Nowiny / Mährische Zeitung, February 16, 1864, page 4. "Do rejstříku pro firmy společné: Společnost jest verejna a trvá od 1 ledna 1864. Verejni společnici jsou Samuel Reif a bratr jeho Jacob Reif, obchodníci ve vyrobcích v. Uh. Ostroze. Oba společníci jsou oprávnény znamenáním společné firmy společnost zastupovati." ("Register for companies in common: The company is public and lasts from January 1, 1864. Public partners are Samuel Reif and his brother Jacob Reif, traders, manufacturers, v. Uh. Ostroze. Both partners are entitled [as holders of this] joint venture company to appoint representatives.") (See in MEDIA.) The address for "Samuel & Jakob Reif" (company) in 1885 and in 1890 was Wien II, Obere Donaustrasse 47 (Neues Wiener Tagblatt (Tages-Ausgabe) 3. September 1885, p. 13; Katalog der allgemeinen land- und forstwirthschaftlichen Ausstellung Wien 1890, page 70). In 1890, Samuel's son Moriz evidently opened a branch office in Vienna (Wiener Zeitung, Feb. 6, 1890, page 17, right side).
The firm is mentioned in Handels- und Gewerbe-Adressbuch des österreichischen Kaiserstaates: enthaltend: die sämmtlichen, nach dem neuen mit 1. Juli 1863 ins Leben getretenen Handelsgesetze erfolgten Eintragungen in die Einzeln- und Gesellschafts-Register mit Angabe der Procuraführer, der Ehepacten und der Rechtsverhältnisse bei Gesellschaftsfirmen, circa 30.000 Firmen (in 4500 Orten) ; zwei Abtheilungen: I. Wien. - II. Länder des österr. Kaiserstaates und die Consulat-Gerichts-Bezirke, published 1867, on page 519: Reif Sam. & Jac., Productenhandlung. Off. Ges. seit 1. Jänner 1864. Off. Ges. sind: Samuel Reif und dessen Bruder Jakob Reif, Beide Handelsleute. Jedem derselben steht das Recht zu, die Gesellschaft zu vertreten. (Reif, Sam. & Jac., Product store. Off. Ges. since January 1, 1864. Off[icers] are: Samuel Reif and his brother Jakob Reif, both traders. Each has the right to represent [the] society [business]."
The firm advertised seed barley in Wiener Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung: Feb. 1, 1890, page 8; Jan. 9, 1892, page 8, and later "barley seed of the first order from the finest original Moravian estates -- Hungary's top seed, Barley Ajani" (in a Hungarian agricultural journal, Feb. 13, 1897, p. 217). The Sam. & Jac. Reif brewery was in Himberg, just outside Vienna and <15 miles from the village of Gramatneusiedl, where Samuel's son Moriz built a large grain storage facility in 1896. The firm Sam. & Jac. Reif appears on a list of historical breweries in Austria. It continued under the original founders' names even after their deaths in 1899 and 1900.
In 1913 Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger [Vienna City Directory] lists the firm as "Sam. & Jac. Reif, Himberger Malzfabrik, [Wien[ IV Mommsengasse 13" (http://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/ . . . ), operated by Siegfried & Hugo Reif (sons of Samuel). Sometime in the 1920s the firm's offices at Wien II, Große Mohrengasse 3 were still being operated by Siegfried & Hugo (Lehmann's 1929), whose names remained in the listing as "Officers" through 1938 (with Siegfried marked †, since he died in 1935; see 1937 Lehmann's listing).
The firm Sam. & Jac. Reif is referred to in an administrative law case in Vienna (1891) as engaging in "malzfabrik" and cereal manufacture, with a distribution center in Ung. Ostroh. The case dealt with payment of a transfer tax, and states that the Vienna offices of Sam. & Jac. Reif were established in 1884.
Another court case (November 1900) saw son Berthold, an attorney, representing the firm.
Samuel Reif died in April 1900; a long-version death-notice appeared on 16 April 1900 in Wiener Sonn- und Montags-Zeitung page 7.
Buried Zentralfriedhof, Wien, located at XI. Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 234
Section: T1 Group: 8 Row: 62 Grave: 62 Address at time of death: 1020, Obere Donaustraße 47 Occupation: Fabrikant Tomb: No; Urn: No; Comments: vis a vis der kathol. Abt. (see also wife Betti Reif)
The newspaper Wiener Montags-Journal printed: "(Todesfälle.) Samstag nachmittag ist nach längerem Leiden der in Kaufmannskveisen sehr geachtete Senior-Chef der hiesigen Malzfabrik Sam. u. Jac. Reif, Herr Samuel Reif, im 69, Lebensjahre gestorben. Das Leichenbegängnis findet heute um 10 Uhr vormittags vom Trauerhause, II., Obere Donaustraßc 47 aus, statt" (April 16, 1900). "After long suffering, on Saturday afternoon the senior chief of the local malt factory, Sam'l Reif, who is very well respected in merchant circles with Jac. Reif, died at the age of 69. The funeral service takes place today at 10 a.m. from the mourners' house, Wien II, Obere Donaustrasse 47."
An image of the death record is at Wien (alle Bezirke), Sterbebücher, Sterbebuch 1900, Image #74 of 222.
A NFP death notice appeared on Sunday, April 15, 1900*. An enlargement is here.
*Two pages later appears a big ad for women's fashion.
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^ The 1818 Historische Abhandlungen der Königlich-Baierischen describes how prevalent the growing of hops was, and how profitable the country brewery. In 1890, the Annual report about the progress of chemical technology discusses the questionable use of the additive Süssholz (anise) in beer by the "country brewer" (kleine Landbrauer").
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Samuel Reif's Timeline
| 1832 |
February 7, 1832
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Uhersky Ostroh Haus #17, Moravia
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| 1860 |
January 25, 1860
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Uherský Ostroh (Ungarisch Ostra), Moravia
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| 1861 |
August 29, 1861
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Uhersky Ostroh, Moravia
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| 1862 |
September 16, 1862
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Uherský Ostroh, Moravia
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| 1863 |
October 4, 1863
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Ung. Ostra, Moravia
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| 1865 |
November 19, 1865
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Ungarisch-Ostroh, Moravia, Czech Republic
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| 1867 |
January 12, 1867
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Uherský Ostroh, Uherske Hradiste, Zlin Region, Czech Republic
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February 13, 1868
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| 1869 |
July 26, 1869
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Uherský Ostroh, South Moravia
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