Who Founded the Business? A revised Kronheimer story

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Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 26, 3 (2023)

Author(s) Paul Gardner AbstractJoseph Kronheimer was a Bavarian Jew who emigrated to the Colony of Victoria in the 1850s and became one of the colony’s earliest entrepreneurs. Although the history of his extraordi­nary business success as the director of J. Kronheimer & Co. and his philanthropy is well-known, this article presents a revised view of the story of the company’s formation. The author is a great-great-great-nephew of Joseph Kronheimer. Ever since his younger days, he has regarded his own birth in Melbourne as being partly attributable to Joseph’s emi­gration. While maintaining this view, he reveals through his recent research that Joseph was not the first Kronheimer to arrive in the colony and establish the business.
Year2023
Pages380-389
Keyword(s)Family histories;Convicts and Early Settlers;German Jews in Australia;Tobacco merchants;Kronheimer family