Family Card - Person Sheet
NameIsidor Schwager 
Birth25 Oct 1860
Death2 Sep 1927
Spouses
Marriage20 Nov 1883
Notes for Isidor Schwager
{geni:about_me} Isidor Schwager was born 25-Oct-1860 in Kassejowitz Bohemia (now Czechoslovakia).
He was the oldest of six children of Salomon Schwager and Lyudmila (nee Weiskopf).
Isidor was an industrious businessman and religious person with little formal education.
In 1883 at the age of 23, Isidor started a grocery in Koetzting, Bavaria and married (on 20-Nov-1883) Anna Steindler (born 1858 in Janowitz).
Anna and Isidor had three sons in Koetzting (Leopold, Albert and Fritz). After five years of marriage and while giving birth to a girl, Anna died on 11-Nov-1888 at the age of 30 and was buried in her hometown Janowitz. The born daughter was named Anna but she died after few months.
After Anna’s death Isidor looked for better Jewish community life and better education to his sons so the family moved to Cham, Bavaria where small Jewish community existed.
On 3-Apr-1889 Isidor married Karoline (Karla) Fleischer (Anna’s cousin. Born 9-Aug-1858 in Klenau Bohemia).
On 1889 Isidor established the family leather business which ultimately employed his sons and daughters. The business purchased leather from tanneries, manufactured leather products (such as uppers for high quality shoes) and soldthe leather products to finishers of leather products such as shoemakers, luggage makers and clothes makers.
Karla raised Isidor’s three sons and together they had six more children (Emma, Sigmund, Augusta, Ida, Hermina-Mina and Josef-Pep). Raising nine children and building a business required strict economy at home. All the children were educated in the local public schools and received religious instructions.
The older sons left home, after completing their basic education, to apprentice in the leather business in other towns and cities in Bavaria. They then returned to work, at least for some time, with their father.
The daughters lived at home and worked in the family business until they married.
By the early 1900’s, the family business (called Isidor Schwager Lederhandlung – Leather Handler) was well recognized throughout Bavaria. It was a thriving enterprise that employed over 200 people.
Isidor was at the height of his career. He was well-to-do and highly regarded in the business and religious community, where he was a leader.
The family business in Cham was greatly diminished by WW1 since the four older sons were drafted into the German army and the market for the company’s products declined.
Following the war, relieved that his sons (as well as his son-in-low Sigmund Seliger) survived the war, Isidor and his family rebuilt the business in Cham.
Isidor then became ill, as a result of diabetes, and was advised by his doctor to retire. Believing he had enough wealth to retire, Isidor turned the original business over to his sons, Albert, Fritz and Sigmund and in 1921 he andhis wife Karla moved with the younger children to Munich where his oldest son Leopold lived and where better medical services were available.
As a result of the change the name of the family business was then changed to “Gebruder Schwager” (Schwager Brothers).
Isidor joined a synagogue in Munich and became a leader there, as he was in Cham.
During the inflation period of 1923-1925 Isidor lost much of his wealth and was forced to return to business. Being proud man, he started his own business, rather than re-joining his sons. At one time, to make ends meet, Isidor and Karla made all sorts of noodles to sell and have for the family. The younger son Joseph often talked of how gooey this production was. Inflation kept the entrepreneurial spirit working.
Isidor attempted several small businesses before returning to the leather business. Again he established a prosperous, although smaller, leather company business in Munich on Turkenstrasse. Isidor built this this business and prospered again, as did his sons.
Isidor and Karla established their home in Munich on Liebigstrasse. Family letters written in the late 1960’s, describe Isidor as a God-fearing man who always honored the Sabbath and celebrated Passover Seders and Chanukah with his family.
The Schwager brothers and sisters often met at their parents’ home for holidays and Sunday gathering with their families.
Sigmund Schwager testified: “The time spent in Munich was the happiest for Isidor. We brothers in Cham and Leopold in Munich were again successful with flourishing enterprises. We all crowded around our parents. Every opportunityto be with them in Munich was gladly taken. Liebigstrasse was home for all of us. There one could relax, discuss all problems and make plans to improve the happiness of our various families”.
On Tuesday 2-Sep-1927 Isidor Schwager died in Schwabinger hospital in Munich at the age of 67. He was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Ungererstrasse in Munich. Karla Schwager remained in Munich, either at Liebigstrasse or with her daughters until her death in Munich on 13-Apr-1940. She was buried near Isidor.
He was the oldest of six children of Salomon Schwager and Lyudmila (nee Weiskopf).
Isidor was an industrious businessman and religious person with little formal education.
In 1883 at the age of 23, Isidor started a grocery in Koetzting, Bavaria and married (on 20-Nov-1883) Anna Steindler (born 1858 in Janowitz).
Anna and Isidor had three sons in Koetzting (Leopold, Albert and Fritz). After five years of marriage and while giving birth to a girl, Anna died on 11-Nov-1888 at the age of 30 and was buried in her hometown Janowitz. The born daughter was named Anna but she died after few months.
After Anna’s death Isidor looked for better Jewish community life and better education to his sons so the family moved to Cham, Bavaria where small Jewish community existed.
On 3-Apr-1889 Isidor married Karoline (Karla) Fleischer (Anna’s cousin. Born 9-Aug-1858 in Klenau Bohemia).
On 1889 Isidor established the family leather business which ultimately employed his sons and daughters. The business purchased leather from tanneries, manufactured leather products (such as uppers for high quality shoes) and soldthe leather products to finishers of leather products such as shoemakers, luggage makers and clothes makers.
Karla raised Isidor’s three sons and together they had six more children (Emma, Sigmund, Augusta, Ida, Hermina-Mina and Josef-Pep). Raising nine children and building a business required strict economy at home. All the children were educated in the local public schools and received religious instructions.
The older sons left home, after completing their basic education, to apprentice in the leather business in other towns and cities in Bavaria. They then returned to work, at least for some time, with their father.
The daughters lived at home and worked in the family business until they married.
By the early 1900’s, the family business (called Isidor Schwager Lederhandlung – Leather Handler) was well recognized throughout Bavaria. It was a thriving enterprise that employed over 200 people.
Isidor was at the height of his career. He was well-to-do and highly regarded in the business and religious community, where he was a leader.
The family business in Cham was greatly diminished by WW1 since the four older sons were drafted into the German army and the market for the company’s products declined.
Following the war, relieved that his sons (as well as his son-in-low Sigmund Seliger) survived the war, Isidor and his family rebuilt the business in Cham.
Isidor then became ill, as a result of diabetes, and was advised by his doctor to retire. Believing he had enough wealth to retire, Isidor turned the original business over to his sons, Albert, Fritz and Sigmund and in 1921 he andhis wife Karla moved with the younger children to Munich where his oldest son Leopold lived and where better medical services were available.
As a result of the change the name of the family business was then changed to “Gebruder Schwager” (Schwager Brothers).
Isidor joined a synagogue in Munich and became a leader there, as he was in Cham.
During the inflation period of 1923-1925 Isidor lost much of his wealth and was forced to return to business. Being proud man, he started his own business, rather than re-joining his sons. At one time, to make ends meet, Isidor and Karla made all sorts of noodles to sell and have for the family. The younger son Joseph often talked of how gooey this production was. Inflation kept the entrepreneurial spirit working.
Isidor attempted several small businesses before returning to the leather business. Again he established a prosperous, although smaller, leather company business in Munich on Turkenstrasse. Isidor built this this business and prospered again, as did his sons.
Isidor and Karla established their home in Munich on Liebigstrasse. Family letters written in the late 1960’s, describe Isidor as a God-fearing man who always honored the Sabbath and celebrated Passover Seders and Chanukah with his family.
The Schwager brothers and sisters often met at their parents’ home for holidays and Sunday gathering with their families.
Sigmund Schwager testified: “The time spent in Munich was the happiest for Isidor. We brothers in Cham and Leopold in Munich were again successful with flourishing enterprises. We all crowded around our parents. Every opportunityto be with them in Munich was gladly taken. Liebigstrasse was home for all of us. There one could relax, discuss all problems and make plans to improve the happiness of our various families”.
On Tuesday 2-Sep-1927 Isidor Schwager died in Schwabinger hospital in Munich at the age of 67. He was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Ungererstrasse in Munich. Karla Schwager remained in Munich, either at Liebigstrasse or with her daughters until her death in Munich on 13-Apr-1940. She was buried near Isidor.