Moses Israel Fürst

Moses Israel Fürst ( * 1617, † after 1692 in Hamburg ) was a German - Jewish merchant.

As a member of a Hanseatic merchant family, he worked among other things as a banker and court Jew in Hamburg and northern Germany. On August 14, 1688 he bought together with his business partner Michael Hinrichsen ( in the literature also Henrichs Michel and Michel Henricus called ) from Gluckstadt the tobacco monopoly in Mecklenburg- Schwerin, a position he held until his death.

This privilege he acquired on the recommendation of Abraham Hagen, whose relatives Michael Hinrichsen and Moses Israel were prince. On November 16, 1692 was the privilege of Frederick William I, Duke of Mecklenburg, confirmed.

His extended family included the famous clerk Glikl bas Judah body which found its way into the history of literature as a symbol of the emancipated Jewish woman of the 17th century.

The date of death of Moses Israel Fürst is currently not exactly busy. Some sources believe that he died in 1692, was extended because in the year of the contract over the tobacco monopoly of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm, but instead of Moses Israel Fürst Bendix Goldschmidt joined the lease with Michael Hinrichsen. This fact take many sources as an occasion a death Moses Israel Fürst in 1692 to accept. However, some sources indicate that he got only from the business. 1692, he was already 75 years old and therefore it would be natural that he went into " retirement ".