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Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (c. 1698 – February 4, 1738) was a German banker who was court Jew for Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, managing several of his enterprises. [1] Throughout his career, Oppenheimer made scores of powerful enemies, some of whom conspired to bring about his arrest and execution after Charles Alexander's death.
The story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer had been the subject of a number of literary and dramatic treatments over the course of more than a century; the earliest of these having been Wilhelm Hauff's 1827 novella. The most successful literary adaptation was the Feuchtwanger novel based on a play that he had written in 1916 but subsequently withdrew.
Jud Süß is an early 19th century novella by Wilhelm Hauff based on the early 18th century German Jewish banker and financial adviser Joseph Süß Oppenheimer. [1] In Hauff's novella, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer is the flamboyant Jewish finance minister of Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg; his policies based on corruption and intimidations made him hated by the Christian community.
The man behind "Iron Man" is Lewis Strauss, former chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The conflict between Strauss and Oppenheimer vacillated between personal and professional issues.
Ferdinand Heinrich Johann Haschkowetz (14 August 1902 – 7 August 1946), known by the stage name Ferdinand Marian, was an Austrian actor.Though a prolific stage actor in Berlin and a popular matinée idol throughout the 1930s and early '40s, he is most remembered for playing the lead role of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in the notorious Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß (1940).
The second was to Joseph Dallet, a communist organizer, who died in 1937 fighting for the Spanish Civil War. The third was to doctor Richard Harrison, whom she divorced to marry Oppenheimer in 1940.
Katherine "Toni" Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer's second child, was born in 1944 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, while her father and other scientists worked on developing the atomic bomb.
The Oppenheimer family is an Anglo–South African family best known for its longtime control of Anglo American and De Beers. [1] Ernest Oppenheimer , a German immigrant to Britain and later to South Africa, founded the Anglo American Corporation in 1917 to mine the Witwatersrand for gold. [ 2 ]