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Herman FREUND

Male 1844 - 1897  (52 years)


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  • Name Herman FREUND  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Birth 6 Dec 1844  Mitwitz Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Birth 6 Dec 1844  Mitwitz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Occupation 1879  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Consul from Columbia in Detroit, MI 
    Death 10 May 1897  Detroit, MI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Death 10 May 1897  Detroit Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Person ID I4539  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2024 

    Father Abraham Hirsch FREUND,   b. 14 Sep 1814, Mitwitz Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Sep 1890, Coburg Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Miriam Marie HOENIGSBERGER,   b. 25 Dec 1815, Floss Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Aug 1885, Mitwitz Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1849  [4
    Family ID F1849  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rachel DE SOURDIS,   b. 7 Nov 1853, St. Thomas, VI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Feb 1922 (Age 68 years) 
    Marriage 24 Aug 1876  Baranguilla Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4
    Children 
     1. Julius Abraham FREUND,   b. 12 Oct 1871   d. 4 Apr 1956, Baranquilla Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)  [natural]
     2. Jacob De Sourdis FREUND,   b. 3 Apr 1873  [natural]
     3. Rosita FREUND,   b. 24 Aug 1874, Baranquilla Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1934, Belle Fourch, SD Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)  [natural]
     4. Ignatz Herman FREUND,   b. 11 Sep 1876   d. 22 May 1933, Chicago, IL, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)  [natural]
     5. Sophie FREUND,   b. 28 Feb 1878  [natural]
     6. Olinda Rodriquez FREUND,   b. 6 Jul 1879  [natural]
     7. August Herman FREUND,   b. 4 Sep 1880  [natural]
     8. Marie Constantine FREUND,   b. 2 May 1882  [natural]
     9. Marie Constantine FREUND,   b. 29 May 1882  [natural]
     10. Infant FREUND,   b. 19 Dec 1884  [natural]
     11. Herbert FREUND,   b. 31 Jan 1886   d. 18 Sep 1886 (Age 0 years)  [natural]
     12. Eleanor FREUND,   b. 12 Apr 1888, Detroit, MI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1975, Highland Park, IL, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)  [natural]
     13. Cheri Sourdis FREUND,   b. 23 Dec 1889  [natural]
     14. FREUND,   b. 19 Dec 1884  [natural]
    Family ID F1811  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
    • [Floss from Kitty Cooper.FTW]

      [Thannhauser.FTW]

      [sara.GED]

      [paper by Dr. Siegfried Rudolph of Mitwitz]

      Herman Freund was born December 6, 1844 at Mitwitz in the house v. Wurtzburg Str. nb 8, which was bought by his grandfather Hirsch Josef Freund in 1799.

      [gitel-descendants.GED]

      Served as Colombia's Counsel to the city of Detroit. Founded tile
      manufacturing business in the United States.

      from Robert Hirsch as written by his mother Constance Klauber:

      ). Rachel and my grandfather Herman Freund met and were married in Barranquilla 1870. He was appointed a Special Counsel to Detroit from Colombia about 1878. He was in charge of commerce (import and export) between Detroit and Colombia. Half of their 10 children were both in South America and half in Detroit. On the ship coming north they passed a ship "S.S. Olinda Rodriguez" so one of my aunts, who was born right after they arrived, was named Olinda. I have 30 first cousins from my mother's 9 brothers and sisters.
      Abraham Freund and his son, Herman, were born in 1814 and 1844 (respectively) in Mitwitz, Germany (near Frankfort). The Freund family were bankers in Mitwitz. We have photos of their houses. Herman emigrated from Mitwitz to Baranquilla, Colombia.
      Back to Detroit of around 1875. My Grandpa Herman and his wife Rachel moved into a big house on Woodward Ave. with their 5 children - then they had 5 more (10 total). My mother, Eleanor Freund (your dad's Granny) was born in 1888, the 9th child. They had one more son, Cheri, born in 1890. He was my closest uncle and lived in Chicago just like Granny.

      Back again to the Freunds of Detroit. My grandpa (who I never knew - he died in 1897 - my last grandparent Rachel Freund died just before I was born in 1923) opened the Peoples Store - Dry Goods (meaning "everything" like a small department store). There were always 20 to 30 people sitting around the dining room table at my grandparents house - with 10 children and many cousins who Grandpa brought from South America and from Germany. They stored their potatoes and carrots under dirt in the basement to keep them over the winter. They went to a meat market (probably not Kosher) to have half a cow prepared to eat. They probably knew a farmer - though they lived in what was becoming a major city - with Henry Ford beginning his business (1904) - a farmer who brought them eggs and milk and cream. I think they lived very well and had a good time. My mother's older brothers, my uncles Jack (Jacob De Sourdis Freund II) and Ignatz, went to Beaver Falls, PA (near Pittsburgh) about 1905 and went into business there. They imported molds from Germany to make roofing tiles. Maybe the clay around Pittsburgh was just right for baking them into tiles. They built up a terrific business. So much building was going on in the USA in the early 1900's. Uncle Jack went to Cornell University class of '97 and became an engineer and helped to build the Panama Canal and the subway systems of Baltimore and New York.
      Julius, the oldest, stayed in Barranquilla Colombia. His 90 year old daughters still live there and have opened a museum about their famous family. Some of my other cousins visited there in the 1960's and said everyone bowed to Uncle Julius on the street and said "Buenos dias, Don Julio" like he was some kind of prince. He was in the importing business and came to the United States once or twice. One of his younger brothers, August (Do you see a connection between "August" and "Julius"?) Ignatz was named after an uncle and Jacob de Sourdis Freund must have been named after you. The best name was "Cheri Freund". He was his mother's last and probably favorite child. Can you figure out what his name means in French and German? . . . Back to Augie - he went to New York City and went into the sausage and ham business -- importing. Then Cheri, the "baby" joined his two big brothers in Pittsburgh and made tile. They all married very lovely women from prominent Jewish families. I used to visit at all their homes when I was growing up - we have lots of funny, interesting letters they all wrote to each other.
      Granny's sisters married very smart and nice men -- especially including my father, Charles Klauber - who was a brilliant student of Greek, Latin and Shakespeare. Two of my aunts married Christian men. The Freund family wasn't very religious (Jewish) at that time. But now their children and grandchildren are becoming much more interested in being Jewish and observing holidays and learning Hebrew. Most of them have been to Israel - your first cousin Hileet was born there. A greatgrandson of Rachel and Herman Freund is a rabbi - Kenneth Roseman (he wrote the book we gave you -- "The Cardinal's Snuffbox" -- based on the story of our ancestor's escape from the Inquisition).

      Pa and I (and you) are very lucky to have all these family records. Most Jewish families lost all their records in Europe during the Holocaust or before Napoleon, when Jews were severely persecuted. Napoleon finally allowed Jews to own land and to have last names.
      1) "Freund" probably because they were friends of the Mayor of Mitwitz, Germany.
      2) "De Sourdis" name they borrowed from the Cardinal in Spain when he helped them escape the Inquisition.
      3) "Monash" (Manasses or Mann)
      4) "Younker" there were 10 or 12 brothers half went east and half west. The younger group was called Younker.
      5) "Hirsch" many Jews took names of animals: Baer, Wolf, Hirsch (which means deer or stag).
      6) "Klauber" was originally Glauber meaning gleaners of the field.

  • Sources 
    1. [S198] stein-temp.FTW.
      Date of Import: Oct 25, 1999

    2. [S179] sara.GED.

    3. [S214] Thannhauser.FTW.
      Date of Import: Nov 13, 2002

    4. [S96] Floss from Kitty Cooper.FTW.
      Date of Import: 20 May 2010

    5. [S154] paper by Dr. Siegfried Rudolph of Mitwitz, 1993, Am Säbel 2, D-96266, Mitwitz.


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