Hermann & Netti Flesch

1. The only evidence we have that Salomon Flesch’s father and mother were Hermann Flesch and Netti Kohn comes from the record of Salomon and Julie’s wedding in the marriage register on 29 June 1870 (see FamilySearch). Salomon gave his heimat as Neutra when he got registered and there is a note on his death certificate (see FamilySearch) that says he came from Sassin, Neutra county so we can suppose that his parents came from there, or at least spent some time in Sassin.

2. There was another Hermann Flesch who lived around the same time as our Hermann and migrated to Leopoldstadt, Vienna. He studied law, spent time in the army and then began to be very successful in business. In the late 1860s he won a contract to build railway carriages and by the 1880s he was a major force in both railways and banking. For a while I believed this was our Hermann Flesch but sadly this other Hermann was ennobled and became Hermann Flesch von Brunnigen.

3. Heinrich Flesch (1914) Die Familie Flesch has been digitised and is available online : digi.law.muni.cz. This major piece of research is the foundation of most of what is written about the Flesch family including the notes of Anne Wares, the Flesch Family Genealogy pages on freepages.rootsweb.com and at least two family trees on Geni.

4. For more about Die Haus Flasche see The Jewish Museum of Frankfurt

5. Details of where Abraham and Salman Flesch lived can be found in Schwartz, Ignaz (1909) Das Wiener ghetto, seine häuser und seine bewohner (The Viennese ghetto: its houses and its inhabitants) available online : archive.org in which Schwartz uses legal documents to map out the Jewish ghetto on the seventeenth century.

6. See jewishencyclopedia.com for more about the history of Jewish Vienna.

7. 1719 Fire in Mikulov. See chronology of Mikulov Jewish community on JewishGen.org.

8. For more on the Familiant Laws 1725 see Delson, Jerome King (2009) When Jews Could Not Marry: Forbidden Marriages in 18th- and 19th-Century Bohemia on Avotaynu Online and Muller, Julius (2009) The Jews of Vienna and their Moravian Hometowns.

9. Zwi Hirsch. This is simply elaborating on the information provided in Die Familie Flesch.

10. Rabbi Schlomo. Again this is simply elaborating on the information provided in Die Familie Flesch

11. For more on the Jewish community in Gross-Meseritsch (Velke Mezirici) see www.velkemezirici.cz

12. For more on the Jewish community of Nitra see JewishGen.com

13. Rabbi Schlomo died on 16 Jan 1832. See Die Familie Flesch

14. Israel Hirsch and Esther Kohn got married in 1819 according to Die Familie Flesch. I believe this to be correct as Heinrich Flesch lists their marriage records in his Verzeichnis der benutzten Dokumente (list of documents used) for Die Familie Flesch. These were probably held in the Nitra synagogue. It is my hope that these may still exist somewhere.

15. Our branch of the family is discussed on page 50 of Die Familie Flesch. I believe he was aware that Israel Hirsch had a descendant who lived in Vienna (Hugo Flesch) whose father was called Salomon but got confused and missed out Hermann Flesch.