Marx Model

Marx Model was a military and court purveyor at the court of the Margrave of Ansbach. He inherited this position from his father in 1676. He ventured into other economic ventures and had acquired a number of estates and farms, a paper mill, and a workshop making roof tiles. Marx was also involved in publishing and in 1691 he was freed from custom duties and was granted the right to be sole publisher of the Talmud in Ansbach.

He had business relations with Samuel Oppenheimer, the influential Austrian Court Jew. Model acted as an agent and supplier of silver for the mint and aided Oppenheimer in revoking an expulsion order against the Jews of Rothenburg. They also had family relations as Model’s daughter was married to Oppenheimer’s son.