Fürstové – příběh rodiny moravských sladovníkù
The Fürst Family – a Story of the Maltsters from Moravia

Summary/Abstract: The Fürst family belonged to the important Moravian business families, which dealt with production of the malt. The founder of the malt-tradition in this Jewish family was a shopkeeper Emanuel Fürst. In 1870 he established a malt house in Uherské Hradištì, which became one of the most significant plants in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the following decades and later in the first Czechoslovak Republic. The flourishing enterprise of the Fürst family was destroyed in the time of the Nazi occupation. Their company was aryanized and the owners of “Mährischen Exportmalzfabriken” were sent to the concentrations camps. After the World War Two the malt house in Tovaèov was confiscated and nationalized. The former owners were quite absurdly declared as enemies of Czechoslovakia and all the restitution-applications of the family members, who survived holocaust, were rejected.

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