Abraham Samuel Bacharach, zum Drachen

Abraham Drach lived in the mid17th century in
Frankfort. He was the most prominent member of
the Drach family, one of the richest and most respected
Frankfurt Jewish families. Isidor Kracauer,
the chronicler of the Frankfurt Jews, described him
as follows: “His breadth of vision, his commercial
talent and ability to make best use of favorable
times, his skill in handling people and issues, and
not least his punctilious honesty with its absolute
rejection of any unfair profit gained him the absolute
confidence of high and low alike in both Jewish
and Christian society. His name was highly valued on the Amsterdam and Hamburg exchanges
and at the courts of many neighboring princes whose financial needs he supplied as their court
factor.”
Drach was frequently given important commissions by the Jewish community and was elected to its
highest offices as “master builder” and treasurer. He was appointed plenipotentiary on behalf of the
Frankfurt Jews in important negotiations at the imperial court in Vienna, he passed away in and died
in 1687. (From http://judengasse.de/ehtml/P009.htm.)

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