{geni:occupation} Fabriksbesitzer, Sr. Chef der firma Sam. & Jac. Reif
{geni:about_me} Birthdate (and death date) are found in ''Geburtstags Merkbuch / Birthday Book'' of Ernestine Reif Schlesinger, in possession of Janet Lindner, ERS's great-grandaughter. Entry by Ernestine Reif Schlesinger.
Birth record appears in ''Czech Jewish Registers'' at www.badatelna.cz/fond/1073, Uherský Ostroh Births 1830-1846, Image [
http://badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=1073&za...&reproId=3785048 '''#6''']/55 (see in MEDIA). Parents are Isak Reif and Esther (no surname); listed as unmarried. Schmaya Adler, Betti's grandfather, is listed on the birth record. On August 10, 1849, the births of Samuel, Emanuel and Jakob Reif re-entered [
http://badatelna.eu/reprodukce/?fondId=241&zaz...&reproId=3885886 together] in Uherský Ostroh records with parents marked as "married." They had been married on June 1 (or 21), 1849.
In later years in Uherský Ostroh, the name Samuel Reif appears on many birth records in connection with male children's "amtlichen beschneidungs" (official circumcision).
Samuel's business (with his brother Jacob Reif, who lived in Ung. Ostroh, and later with his son [
http://www.geni.com/people/Moriz-Reif/600000000878...=6000000002765714960 '''Moriz''']) was ''Sam. & Jac. Reif.'' It was registered as a public company on January 1, 1864, as published in ''Morawske Nowiny / Mährische Zeitung'', February 16, 1864, page [
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=mar&...&ref=anno-search '''4''']. "Do rejstříku pro firmy společné: Společnost jest verejna a trvá od 1 ledna 1864. Verejni společnici jsou Samuel Reif a bratr jeho Jacob Reif, obchodníci ve vyrobcích v. Uh. Ostroze. Oba společníci jsou oprávnény znamenáním společné firmy společnost zastupovati." ("Register for companies in common: The company is public and lasts from January 1, 1864. Public partners are Samuel Reif and his brother JacobReif, traders, manufacturers, v. Uh. Ostroze. Both partners are entitled [as holders of this] joint venture company to appoint representatives.") (See in MEDIA.)
Later, offices in Vienna were at Wien II, Große Mohrengasse 3. The firm advertised "barley seed of the first order, from the finest original Moravian estates -- Hungary's top seed, Barley Ajani" (in a Hungarian [
http://www.omgk.hu/Digitarchiv/folyoiratok/Koztelek/1897/1897_013.pdf ''agricultural journal''], Feb. 13, 1897, p. 217). The Sam. & Jac. Reif [
http://books.google.com/books?ei=NcAZUYGTBqjqigLI1...imberg#search_anchor ''brewery''] was in Himberg, just outside of Vienna. The firm appears on a [
http://www.brauwesen-historisch.de/Oesterreichh.html list] of historical breweries in Austria. It continued under the original founders' names even after their deaths in 1899 and 1900; by 1929, when son Moriz Reif was operating it, ''Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger'' [Vienna City Directory] lists it as "Sam. & Jac. Reif, Himberger Malzfabrik,[Wien[ IV Mommsengasse 13" (
http://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/ . . . )
The firm Sam. & Jac. Reif is referred to in an [
http://books.google.com/books?id=wgMpAQAAMAAJ&...mberg%22&f=false administrative law] case in Vienna (1891) as engaging in "malzfabrik" and cereal manufacture, with a distribution center in Ung. Ostroh. The casedealt with payment of a transfer tax, and states that the Vienna offices of ''Sam. & Jac. Reif'' were established in 1884.
Buried [
http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/search.asp?lang=en ''Zentralfriedhof,''] Wien, located at XI. Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 234
Section: T1 Group: 8 Row: 62 Grave: 62
Address at time of death: 1020, [
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Obere+Donaustra%C3%...ria&t=m&z=16 Obere Donaustraße 47]
Occupation: Fabrikant
Tomb: No; Urn: No; Comments: vis a vis der kathol. Abt. ''(see also wife Betti Reif)''
Image of the death record is at ''Wien (alle Bezirke), Sterbebücher, Sterbebuch 1900'', Image #[
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-2579...c=MMGD-23C:678709645 74] of 222.
The NFP [
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&a...;seite=20&zoom=2 ''death notice''] appeared on Sunday, April 15, 1900*. An enlargement is [
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~...el_Reif_obituary.jpg here].
''*''Two pages later appears a big ad for [
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&...seite=24&zoom=10 ''women's fashion''].