Weissberger Ignaz

Collection description

Scope and content:: The fonds contains a diploma of ennoblement granted by Franz Joseph I (1884).

Archival history:: The records were incorporated into the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish religious communities that had been disbanded.

Administrative/biographical history:: Ignaz Weissberger (1830–1905) was born in Přebuz, Western Bohemia, and had a career in the army, which he joined in November 1849. He attained the position of Captain First Class and retired in January 1883. In November of that year he requested the emperor to raise him to a noble rank; the request was accepted in 1884, even though he had left the army for a brief period (1857–1859). Nobility was conferred on him by a diploma of ennoblement on 12 March 1884, after which time he used the predicate Weissberger Edler von Ecksteinhof. He died in Vienna in 1905.

Finding aids:: Dolista K, Heřman J: Weissberger Ignaz, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1972, 1 s., AP č. 298