Judenporzellan

The term Jews porcelain hides the most incisive special levy, the Jews were subjected in Frederick's Prussia. By Cabinet command from the March 21, 1769, Frederick II ( 1712-1786 ) had ordered that Jews in the re-allocation or inheritance of protective letters as well as the acquisition of real property for 300 dollars, and upon receipt of a general privilege for 500 Taler porcelain from the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin should buy ( KPM ) and export abroad. The implementation of these special charges impacted for many Jewish families threaten the existence of, corresponded to these sums but each with several years' salary of a Berlin factory worker. The bureaucracy continued the regulation of economic considerations, first by only imperfectly. 1779 Frederick intervened and allowed the administration drastically worsen. This financial losses for immigration and emigration of Jews were deliberately accepted.

The pejorative term " Jews porcelain" owes its existence to the fact that the Jews are concerned mostly repelled them forced upon goods on the German and European markets, with losses of 50 percent or more, which ultimately impact libelous for the Berlin factory. Against this background, the " Porcellainexportationszwang " after the death of Frederick II on the initiative of the new KPM chief Friedrich Anton von Heinitz was 1787/1788 repealed. However, the Jews had to pay 40,000 dollars for that distance again.

Overall, it was based on the regulation from 1769 to about 1,400 forced purchases for a total of 280,000 thalers. The "Jewish Porcelain" was primarily sold to Mecklenburg, Hamburg and Eastern Europe. The popular anecdote, according to which Moses Mendelssohn had been forced on the occasion of his marriage to acquire twenty monkeys from China, emerged as one resulting in the 19th century legend.