The founder of this world-famous banking firm was Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who was born in Frankfort 214 years ago, in a very religious family, several members of which were rabbis. Bauer recognises the significance of the red hexagram and changes his name from Bauer to Rothschild, after the red hexagram or sign signifying 666 hanging over the entrance door (âRot,â is German for, âRed,â ⦠⦠His father Amschel Moses Rothschild, who died a year after Mayer Amschel became Bar Mitzvah, had hoped that his son would be a rabbi. Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1744 in the Judengasse, one of eight children of Amschel Moses Rothschild (d. 1755) and his wife Schönche Rothschild (née Lechnich, d. 1756). Moses Kalman Rothschild (1688-1735), German Jewish silk trader, money changer, father of Amschel Moses Rothschild (1710-1755) Kalonymus Kalman Epstein (born c. 1753, Neustadt, now Poland) Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889â1943), a Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno; Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 1963), an Icelandic author And before Amschel Moses was his father Moses Kalman Rothschild and his father Kalman Herz Rothschild and his father Herz Moses Rothschild and his father Moses Isaac Rothschild (Mosche Rotschild or Mose zum rot.Schild: c.1560-1635) and his father ⦠The most famous and one of the earliest Rothschild was Moses Kalman Rothschild and his son Amschel Moses Rothschild. Moses worshipped Ra the sun god of Egypt, so he changed his name to Rothschild by simply switching the Th for the R. The name Rothschild came out of No where in Frankfurt, Germany in the late 1500's. Amschel's father had a business in goods-trading and currency exchange. The family tree of Rothschild, Kalman Meyer | The family tree database of ANU Museum of the Jewish People contains many millions of ⦠Zalman (Salomon) ROTHSCHILD was born to KALMAN HIRSCH ROTHSCHILD and Guttle Gütle Bat Josef ROTHSCHILD (born HÖCHST). Seventeen years later theyâd be known as the Rothschild family. Gulle. Moses Rothschild Bauer = t 1735. Isaak Itzik t 1659. The real power behind the Ashkenazi Jews is the Rothschild banking family, which can trace its roots to 1743 when Mayer Bauer was born in Bavaria. Amschel Moses Rothschild ⦠Following his fatherâs death, Bauer returns to Frankfurt to take over his fatherâs business. His father Amschel Moses Rothschild was a German Jewish money-changer and merchant in Frankfurt. Amschel Moses and his wife died in epidemics when their children were still young, leaving behind their sons Moses, Kalman and Mayer, and a daughter Gutelche. Young Mayer at the time was studying in a yeshiva, but after his parentsâ death, he was sent to Hanover to apprentice with a Jewish merchant. A century later his great-grandson Kalman, a moneychanger who also dealt in wool and silk, had a taxable income more than twice as large. Kalmon = (1) Gille t 1707 t 1668 = (2) Bele t 1712. Zalman had 3 siblings: Moses Kalman Bauer de Rothschild and 2 other siblings . t 1678 ~ Meier. Moses. That was also the same year his father had put the red hexagram above their doorway. Married to Schonche Buchsbaum, born about 1658 - Germany, deceased 13 March 1733 - Frankfurt, Germany aged about 75 years old with. A century later his great-grandson Kalman, a moneychanger who also dealt in wool and silk, had a taxable income more than twice as large; and it seems that his son--Mayer Amschel's grandfather Moses--successfully developed his father's business, continuing the process of steady social ascent by marrying, successively, the ⦠(Moses Kalman Bauer) Born about 1656 - Germany; Deceased 19 October 1735 - Frankfurt, Germany,aged about 79 years old Spouses, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a personal supplier of collectable coins to the Prince of Hesse. KALMAN was born in 1620, in Frankfurt, Am Main, Germany. It seems that his son (Mayer Amschel's grandfather Moses) successfully developed his father's business, continuing the process of steady social ascent by marrying, successively, the ⦠I. Rei t 1655. t 1747.