Mühsam I

Descendants of Seligmann Mühsam

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Seligman PAPPENHEIM & Hinda ZÜLZ 

1. •  Salomon PAPPENHEIM (2 February 1740 - March 4 or 5, 1814)  The descendants of Salomon can be found HERE.
   

2. •  Simon Seligman PAPPENHEIM (1731 - 1819)  The descendants of Simon can be found HERE.
   

3. •  Löbel PAPPENHEIM   Löbel is discussed on THIS page, and possible descendants are found HERE.
   

4. •  Valentin PAPPENHEIM  The descendants of Valentin can be found HERE.
   

5. •  Pinkus MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM) (1737 - 28 July 1807) & Barbara (Berocho) JOSEPH JONAS ( - 14 August 1822)
   

6. ‣  Maria MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM)* & Hirsch JACOB
   

7. ‣  Maria MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM)* & Jonas LAX
   

8. ‣  Pesse MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM) (14 October 1776 - 28 January 1845) & Jacob SORAUER  The descendants of Pesse and Jacob SORAUER (my ancestors) are found HERE.
   

9. ‣  Frommet MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM) & Benjamin BAGINSKY The descendants of Frommet and Benjamin BAGINSKY are found HERE.
   

10. ‣  Esther MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM)* & Samuel SCHWEITZER The descendants of Esther and Samuel SCHWEITZER are found HERE.
    

11. ‣  Esther MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM)* & Salomon HEILBORN
    

12. ‣  Rösel MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM) (about 1790 - ) & Itzig PAPPENHEIM ( - 15 August 1838)  Descendants are found HERE.
    

13. ‣  Charlotte MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM)* & Abraham SITTENFELD  Descendants are found HERE.
    

14. ‣  Charlotte MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM)* & Michael RECHNITZ
    

15. ‣  Joseph Pincus MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM) (1785 - 8 February 1842) & Channa/Johanna PICK  Descendants are found HERE.
    

16. ‣  Seligmann MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM) ( - 30 April 1831) & Dorothea COHN
    

17. -  Herz MÜHSAM & Dorothea LIEBRECHT
    

18. -  Isaak MÜHSAM & Dorothea BÖHM
    

19. •  Louis MÜHSAM & Bertha FRÄNKEL
    

20. ‣  Ida MÜHSAM & Prof. Dr. Siegfried HOSCH (21 February 1854 - )
    

21. ‣  Julius MÜHSAM & Stanislawa von FRYBÓSZ
    

22. ‣  Friedrike MÜHSAM & Georg BERHHARD
    

23. -  Stefanie Ruth BERHHARD
    

24. ‣  Helene MÜHSAM* & Bruno SÜSS
    

25. -  Lucya SÜSS
    

26. ‣  Helene MÜHSAM* & Stefan GIELDZINSKI
    

27. -  Halinka GIELDZINSKI
    

28. •  Friedrike MÜHSAM & Jonas MATZDORFF
    

29. ‣  Siegismund MATZDORFF & Selma MORITZ
    

30. -  Edith MATZDORFF
    

31. -  Wally MATZDORFF
    

32. ‣  Ismar MATZDORFF & Lenchen GRÜN
    

33. -  Recha MATZDORFF & MOSES
    

34. -  Else MATZDORFF & BARTSCH
    

35. -  Salo MATZDORFF
    

36. -  Georg MATZDORFF
    

37. -  Siegfried MATZDORFF
    

38. ‣  Josef MATZDORFF & Selma KORITOWSKY
    

39. -  Egon MATZDORFF
    

40. -  Dietrich MATZDORFF
    

41. -  Elfriede MATZDORFF
    

42. -  Leopold MATZDORFF
    

43. ‣  Marie MATZDORFF & Nathan GLOGOWSKI (or GLOGOVSKY)  Marie and Nathan lived in Pitschen (now Byczna, Poland). See THIS PAGE about how his great-great-grandfather had come there.
    

44. -  Max GLOGOWSKI
    

45. -  Rudolf GLOGOWSKI
    

46. -  Rosa GLOGOWSKI
    

47. -  Walter GLOGOWSKI
    

48. -  Georg GLOGOWSKI  Georg emigrated to Israel.
    

49. •Siegfried GLOGOVSKY later Shmuel GANNOT
    

50. ‣Orit GANNOT & NADIR
    

51. -  Kurt GLOGOWSKI
    

52. ‣  Hugo MATZDORFF & Louise BEIN
    

53. -  Hedwig MATZDORFF
    

54. -  Alfred MATZDORFF
    

55. -  Kurt MATZDORFF
    

56. -  Ruth MATZDORFF
    

57. •  Henriette MÜHSAM & GRÜN
    

58. •  Selma MÜHSAM & Jacob WERNER
    

59. ‣  Josef WERNER & Rosa SEIDENBERG
    

60. -  Irma WERNER
    

61. -  Georg WERNER
    

62. •  Seligmann MÜHSAM & Amalie LIBAS
    

63. ‣  Betty MÜHSAM & Adolf PICK
    

64. ‣  Dr. Med. Ismar MÜHSAM
    

65. ‣  Helene MÜHSAM (24 February 1864 - 8 January 1942)
    

66. ‣  Elly MÜHSAM (23 May 1870 - )
    

67. •  Nathan MÜHSAM (about 1857 - 17 January 1926, New York) & Amelia LACHMANN (about 1864 - 21 March 1946)
    

68. ‣  George MUEHSAM (28 June 1897, New York - 19 April 1952, New York) & Marion SKRABAL (17 February 1898 - October 1982, New York)
    

69. -  Colonel Martin MUEHSAM (24 August 1924, New York - 6 February 2011, El Paso, TX) & Edith J.
    

           Martin served in the U.S. military during WWII, flying in bomber aircraft.  Participated in bombings of Leipzig, not too far from the towns of Silesia where the Mühsam family had come from some hundred and fifty years earlier.

1. •Mitchell H. MUEHSAM
   

2. •Carolynne Sue MUEHSAM & Moses L AYOUB
   

3. ‣Lili Martine AYOUB
   

4. -  Anita MUEHSAM (about 1927, New York - ) & Charles L. LEVY
   

5. ‣  Edward Julius MUEHSAM (about 1891, New York - )
   

6. ‣  Erna MUEHSAM (about 1893, New York - )
   

7. -  Moritz MÜHSAM (1805 - 1869) & Charlotte SCHWEITZER (1810 - 1870)
   

            Moritz MÜHSAM married his cousin, Charlotte SCHWEITZER.  Her family can be found on the SCHWEITZER page. See also the family tree on that page.

1. •  Rabbi Dr. Samuel MÜHSAM* (25 May 1837, Landsberg, Silesia - 20 February 1907, Graz, Austria) & Betty KANN (28 January 1844, Lissa - 28 March 1879, Graz, Austria)
   

2. ‣  Laura MÜHSAM (19 June 1866, Postelberg, Czechoslovkia - 25 October 1938) & Arnold ROSENTHAL (16 May 1858 - 17 April 1926, Berlin)
   

3. -  Erich Ameriko ROSENTHAL (7 August 1891, San Juan, Argentina - 14 January 1947) & Paula WINTERLEITNER (27 June 1898, Vienna - )
   

4. •Argentino ROSENTHAL
   

5. -  Elsa Betty ROSENTHAL (3 June 1898, San Juan, Argentina - 1 March 1974) & Willy BUTTERMILCH (25 December 1872 - 13 November 1934)
   

6. -  Erna Argentina ROSENTHAL (17 April 1900, San Juan, Argentina - 29 August 1995) & Eduardo FOERTSCH (25 July 1890, Nürnberg - 12 November 1973)
   

7. ‣  Dr. Med. Hugo MÜHSAM (20 June 1867, Postelberg, Czechoslovkia - 27 September 1928, Graz, Austria)
   

8. ‣  Flora MÜHSAM (20 October 1868, Postelberg, Czechoslovkia - 25 October 1934, Graz, Austria) & Isidor NEUMANN (17 December 1859 - )
   

9. -  Betty Elsa NEWMAN (25 October 1900, Graz, Austria - 21 June 1975 (?))
   

         Betty NEWMAN was a personal assistant to Albert Einstein, as well as his lover.

1. -  Herbert Ernst/Ernst Herbert NEUMANN (4 March 1903, Graz - after 19 August 1942, Auschwitz)
   

2. -  Hans NEUMANN (2 February 1898, Graz, Austria - 24 March 1898, Graz, Austria)
   

3. ‣  Martin MÜHSAM (24 December 1869, Postelberg, Czechoslovakia - 13 January 1928, Graz, Austria)
   

4. ‣  Charlotte MÜHSAM (12 January 1871, Znain, Czechoslovakia - 6 March 1941, Lisbon Portugal) & Ludwig MAULWURF (31 August 1860, Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary - 19 August 1934, Graz)
   

5. -  Felix (MAULWURF) MARTON (1 September 1902, Smyrna, Turkey - 1 October 1965, New York)
   

6. -  Otto/Oliver (MAULWURF) MARTON (26 January 1904, Smyrna, Turkey - January 1976, Fort Lee, NJ) & Henny Toni SCHLESINGER (8 April 1902 - 15 September 1997)
   

7. •Dorothy MARTON
   

8. -  Fritz (MAULWURF) MARTON (25 November 1905, Smyrna, Turkey - )
   

9. -  Selma Betty (MAULWURF) MARTON (8 November 1907, Smyrna, Turkey - 4 November 1930, Graz, Austria)
   

10. ‣  Georg MÜHSAM (1872 - 1872)
    

11. ‣  Melanie MÜHSAM (19 August 1877, Biesenz, Czechoslovakia - ) & Dr. Alexander GÜNZBURG (16 July 1876, Charkow, Ukraine - )
    

12. -  Paul GÜNZBURG (3 January 1900, Charkow, Ukraine - )
    

13. -  Victor GÜNZBURG (1 March 1901, Charkow, Ukraine - December 1920)
    

14. -  Georg Luria GÜNZBURG (10 March 1904, Charkow, Ukraine - )
    

15. •  Rabbi Dr. Samuel MÜHSAM* (25 May 1837 - 20 February 1907) & Marianne LÖWENSTEIN (about 1846 - 29 March 1924, Graz, Austria)
    

16. ‣  James MÜHSAM (1881 - )
    

17. ‣  Dr. Jur. Kurt MÜHSAM (3 May 1882, Graz, Austria - 17 November 1931, Berlin) & Alice FREYMARK (22 December 1889 - 26 February 1968, Spring Valley, NY).  Kürt MÜHSAM was a journalist and writer.  He was an editor for the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag.  The Leo Baeck Institute has the papers of Kurt and Alice Muehsam, and their children.  A description can be seen HERE.
    

18. -  Ruth Philippine MÜHSAM, later Ruth MARTON (25 February 1912, Berlin - 1999, New York)
    

            Born in Berlin, Ruth Marton became a writer and actress and later lived in Hollywood and New York.  She was close friends with Erich Maria Remarque and with John and Walter Huston.

1. -  Gerd MÜHSAM (30 March 1913, Berlin - 14 December 1979, New York)
   

2. -  Helmut Victor MÜHSAM (12 August 1914, Berlin - 1997) & Brouria FELDMAN
   

3. •Ofra MÜHSAM & PELED
   

4. ‣Jonathan PELED
   

5. ‣Benjamin PELED
   

6. ‣  Walter MÜHSAM (1885 - ) & Thesy BÖHM
   

7. •  Siegfried Seligmann MÜHSAM (2 September 1838 - 21 July 1915) & Rosalie COHN (10 April 1849 - 24 March 1899)
   

           Siegfried Mühsam was a pharmacist in Lübeck, Germany, and the writer of “Geschichte des Namens Mühsam,” the history of the Mühsam family and the source of much of the information presented here.

1. ‣  Ernst Moritz MÜHSAM (died as a child)
   

2. ‣  Elisabeth Margarethe MÜHSAM (6 April 1875, Berlin - 15 May 1958, Rechovot, Israel) & Dr. med. Julius JOËL (25 January 1867, Pfungstadt, Germany - 18 June 1933, Rechovot, Israel)
   

3. -  Walter David JOËL (3 April 1899 - 20 January 1991, Los Angeles)
   

4. -  Dr. Ernst Ludwig JOËL & Edith Hanna OPPENHEIMER
   

5. -  Theodor Ephraim JOËL** & Eva LANDAU
   

       Eva and Theodor were first cousins; see Eva a few lines below.

1. ‣  Dr. med. Hans Günther MÜHSAM (1876 - 1957) & Minna ADLER
   

            Hans Mühsam was both a collaborator and a close friend of Albert Einstein.  He moved to Palestine in the early 1930’s.

1. ‣  Erich  Kurt MÜHSAM (6 April 1878, Berlin - 10 July 1934, Oranienburg) & Kreszentia (Zenzl) ELFINGER (28 July 1884 - 10 March 1962)
   

            Erich Mühsam was a poet, writer, philosopher, and a leader of the anarchist movement in Germany.  He was one of the leaders of the 1917 leftist revolution in Bavaria.  He was murdered by the Nazis in 1934 at the Oranienburg concentration camp.  See the introduction to this page, above, for a photo and more about him.  His wife, Zenzl, was the daughter of a Bavarian farmer, Augustin Elfinger.  She had a son, Siegfried Elfinger (16 October 1902, Munich - 1 June 1969, Washington D.C.), when she was 17, and never revealed who the father was. She and Erich were married in 1915.  After Erich’s murder she fled to Moscow, but was imprisoned for 20 years in the Soviet Gulag, until 1955, when she went to the DDR (East Germany), where she died in 1962.  Her son, Siegfried, was a painter who immigrated to the U.S.

1. ‣  Charlotte Adelheid MÜHSAM (1881, Lübeck - 1971, Israel) & Dr. jur. Leo LANDAU (1880 - 1960)
   

2. -  Gustav Ephraim LANDAU* & Hanna STEIN
   

3. -  Gustav Ephraim LANDAU* & Lily BAUM
   

4. -  Hans Theodor LANDAU** & Hildegard Irene MÜHSAM (5 July 1918 - )
   

            Hildegard was a distant relative of Hans.  She can also be found on THIS page.

1. -  Eva LANDAU** & Theodor Ephraim JOËL
   

      Eva and Theodor were first cousins; see Theodor a few lines above.

1. •  Ernestine MÜHSAM & Isaak ROTHENBURG
   

2. ‣  Max ROTHENBURG
   

3. •  Marcus MÜHSAM (1844 - 1914) & Flora WALLACH (1853 - 1908)
   

4. ‣  Dr. jur. Paul MÜHSAM (17 July 1876 - 11 March 1960, Haifa, Israel) & Irma KAUFMANN (12 June 1889 - 19 September 1946)
   

5. -  Else Flora MÜHSAM (8 May 1910 - ) & LEVY
   

6. -  Charlotte Antonie MÜHSAM* (11 July 1912 - 7 February 1994, Tel Aviv) & Gunter Avraham FRIEDLANDER (8 April 1902, Koenigshutte, Silesia - 25 May 1975, Jerusalem)
   

        Gunter Friedlander was one of the two founders of the pharmaceutical firm TEVA in Israel.  TEVA is now the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in the world, and one of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies overall.

1. -  Charlotte Antonie MÜHSAM* (11 July 1912 - 7 February 1994) & Ernst MARKOWICZ (27 February 1901 - 23 October 1979)
   

2. •  Rosalie Aurelie MÜHSAM & Rabbi Dr. David WEISS
   

3. -  Johann Salomo MÜHSAM & Louise Wilhelmine ZILLMANN
   

4. •  (Johann) Wilhelm MÜHSAM* & Bertha SCHLETH
   

5. ‣  Wilhelm MÜHSAM & Mimmi FLÜGGE
   

6. -  Luise MÜHSAM
   

7. -  Wilhelmine Margarethe MÜHSAM (23 April 1891, New York - )
   

8. ‣  Ernst Carl MÜHSAM (1 January 1865, Berlin - ) & Elisabeth WOLDMANN
   

9. -  Erna MÜHSAM
   

10. -  Erich MÜHSAM
    

11. ‣  Paul Franz MÜHSAM (August 1866, Berlin - ) & Hedwig LOHSE
    

12. -  Paul MÜHSAM
    

13. ‣  Luise MÜHSAM
    

14. ‣  Johanna MÜHSAM
    

15. ‣  Otto MÜHSAM
    

16. •  (Johann) Wilhelm MÜHSAM* & Wilhelmine NUSCHE
    

17. •  Marie MÜHSAM
    

18. •  Otto MÜHSAM
    

19. •  Auguste Frieferike MÜHSAM (30 May 1841, Berlin - ) & August TRÄBERT
    

20. ‣  Ernst TRÄBERT
    

21. ‣  Eugen TRÄBERT
    

22. ‣  Anna TRÄBERT
    

23. •  (Ernst) Franz MÜHSAM (5 December 1845, Berlin - ) & Katharina MÜLLER
    

24. ‣  Gertrud MÜHSAM
    

25. ‣  Franz MÜHSAM & Mimi SCHUMACHER
    

26. -  Käte Henriette MÜHSAM
    

27. -  Franz MÜHSAM
    

28. •  Paul MÜHSAM
    

29. •  Anna MÜHSAM & Eduard LOHSE
    

30. •  Johanna MÜHSAM (6 March 1853, Berlin - ) & Ernst BRAUNSCHWEIG
    

31. ‣  Johanna BRAUNSCHWEIG
    

32. •  Gustav MÜHSAM (18 February 1855, Berlin - ) & Helene SCHRAGE
    

33. ‣  Natalie MÜHSAM & Paul RADTKE
    

34. ‣  Margarete MÜHSAM & Willi GENTSCH
    

35. -  Ernestine MÜHSAM (17 October 1812 - 17 January 1891) & Israel Emanuel THILO (8 October 1809 - 12 November 1872)
    

36. •  Dr. med. Siegfried Seligmann THILO (1 April 1837, Honigern - 1 September 1886, Neisse) & Malwine FRIEDMANN (1 January 1843, Breslau - 20 March 1894, Neisse) See family photo at the bottom of the page.
    

37. ‣  Martha THILO (26 July 1867, Neisse - 13 January 1909, Berlin)
    

38. ‣  Eugen THILO (14 June 1869, Neisse - 19 May 1940, London) & Martha EPHRAIMSON (7 August 1874, Strelitz - 15 September 1935, Berlin)
    

39. -  Eduard Fritz THILO (18 September 1902, Bradford, U.K. - 2 November 1955, New York) & Eva WACHSMANN (10 June 1910, Breslau - 17 June 1992, Florida, U.S.)
    

40. -  Hans Arthur THILO* (13 December 1903, Bradford, U.K. - 29 October 1975, London) & Lillian SCHWARTZ (18 September 1914, New Haven, CT - )
    

41. -  Hans Arthur THILO* (13 December 1903, Bradford, U.K. - 29 October 1975, London) & Vera COLLENS (22 November 1909, London - 15 December 1995, Cambridge, England)
    

42. -  Margarete Malwine THILO* (9 July 1906, Bradford, U.K. - 6 March 1972) & Hannes SCHWEIGER (24 August 1908, Weinheim - 17 October 1968, London)
    

43. -  Margarete Malwine THILO* (9 July 1906, Bradford, U.K. - 6 March 1972) & Fritz HELLENDALL (25 August 1912, Dusseldorf - 22 June 1999, London)
    

44. -  Helene THILO (5 June 1910, Bradford, U.K. - 19 December 1960, London) & Ernst Moritz LEVY (1 June 1894, Berlin - 16 October 1982, London)
    

45. ‣  Dr. Jur. Carl THILO (6 November 1874, Neisse - 19 May 1931, Breslau) & Marie LOEWENSTAEDT (10 February 1883, Breslau - 23 May 1944, KZ Theresienstadt)
    

46. -  Margarete Marie THILO (3 August 1910, Sohrau, Silesia - 1 April 1995, Haifa, Israel) & Jakob SLIJPER (7 March 1910, Utrecht, Netherlands - 17 January 1967, Rotterdam)
    

47. •Mirjam Josephine SLIJPER (1940 - ) & Jack Robert VISKOPER (1938 - )
    

48. ‣Galit VISKOPER (1969 - )
    

49. -Ophir VISKOPER (2009 )
    

50. ‣Michal VISKOPER (1975 - ) & Tomer OFRI (1975 - )
    

51. -Shahar OFRI (2004 - )
    

52. -Yael OFRI (2007 - )
    

53. -Eyal OFRI (2007 - )
    

54. -Ela OFRI (2010 - )
    

55. •Leo SLIJPER (1946 - ) & Naomi Ruth KELLER (1946 - )
    

56. ‣Nadav SLIJPER (1972 - ) & Keren Elite SHTOKHAMER (1973 - )
    

57. -Yuval SLIJPER (1997 - )
    

58. -Barak SLIJPER (2001 - )
    

59. -Ariel SLIJPER (2003 - )
    

60. -Amit SLIJPER (2007 - )
    

61. -Yonatan Mikey SLIJPER (2013 - )
    

62. ‣Amir SLIJPER (1974 - ) & Ayelet Lavi (1979 - )
    

63. -Uriah SLIJPER (2005 - )
    

64. -Ilai SLIJPER (2009 - )
    

65. ‣Iris SLIJPER (1977 - ) & Avi Bar-Masada (1976 - )
    

66. -Eyal Bar-Masada (2005 - )
    

67. -Noa Bar-Masada (2007 - )
    

68. -Roni (2010 - )
    

69. ‣Jael SLIJPER (1984 - )
    

70. ‣  Hugo THILO (12 April 1866, Neisse - 10 October 1866, Neisse)
    

71. •  Joseph THILO (16 May 1839, Kreutzendorf - 1907, Festenberg) & Helene LEVY
    

72. ‣  Dr. phil. Julius THILO (1866, Neustadt - ) & Emma SCHLEGAL
    

73. •  Dorothea THILO (8 May 1840, Kreutzendorf - )
    

74. •  August THILO (29 March 1843, Plimkenau - 3 November 1893, Berlin) & Elise PICK (19 April 1848 - 6 January 1894, Berlin)
    

75. ‣  Elsa THILO & Gustav WEIL
    

76. ‣  Gertrud THILO & BECHER
    

77. ‣  Bertha THILO
    

78. ‣  Fritz THILO
    

79. •  Charlotte THILO (7 December 1845, Carlsruche - ) & Max WERNER
    

80. ‣  Clara WERNER & COHN
    

81. •  Louis THILO (2 January 1848, Gross Wartenberg - 7 July 1910, Berlin)
    

82. •  David THILO (13 October 1854, Oberglogau - 6 September 1904, Berlin) & Doris EPHRAIM (22 August 1864 - 14 January 1934, Berlin)
    

83. ‣  Dr. jur. Georg THILO
    

84. -  Pinkus MÜHSAM* (June 1813 - 16 November 1886) & Dorothea OSCHINSKY
    

                        Dorothea was also married to Moses SORAUER, Pinkus MÜHSAM’S first cousin.  See the SORAUER page for details.

1. •  Marie MÜHSAM & Max/meyer RASCHKOW (1835 - )
   

2. ‣  Dr. Richard RASCHKOW
   

3. -  Pinkus MÜHSAM* (June 1813 - 16 November 1886) & Amalie WERNER
   

4. •  Salo Seligmann MÜHSAM (8 January 1856, Neisse - )
   

5. •  Emil MÜHSAM (1843, Opole Prov. - 1 October 1843)
   

6. •  Fanny MÜHSAM (1844, Opole Prov. - 13 August 1844, Opole Prov.)
   

7. •  Richard MÜHSAM (10 April 1863, Neisse - 8 February 1864, Neisse)
   

8. -  Charlotte MÜHSAM & S. MAY
   

9. -  Joseph MÜHSAM
   

10. -  Simon MÜHSAM
    

 

*People with asterisks after their names were married two or more times.  They have a separate line for each spouse.

**People with two asterisks after their name were married to a relative who can also be found somewhere on these pages.