Porges family of Brandýs nad Labem  
Family tree

This page consolidates the previously dispersed faire-parts of the Brandýs nad Labem area Porges family, a five-brother sibship of mid-19th century Bohemia whose descendants spread to Saaz (Žatec), Štětí (Wegstädtl), Holesovice (Prague VII), Litoměřice and Vinohrady, sharing a common burial site at the Brandýs nad Labem Israelite Cemetery. The family-of-origin parents (born ca. 1790-1810) remain undocumented but are presumed to have been resident in Brandýs itself.

Generation A — the five brothers

? Porges (b. ca. 1790-1810, Brandýs nad Labem ?) — the unnamed Brandýs patriarch

Salomon Porges (b. ca. 1821-1822, † Zeleneč ca. 22 July 1900, in his 79th year, of senile debility, buried Brandýs n. L.) — probable predeceased fifth brother

Moritz Porges (b. ca. 1825-1830, † Saaz / Žatec 22 May 1903), Privatier, buried Brandýs n. L.

Samuel Porges (b. ca. 1835-1836, † Wegstädtl / Štětí 21 March 1904, age 68), buried Roudnice n. L.

Albert Porges (alive 1903 + 1904), of Groß-Zirnau

Ignaz Porges (alive 1903 + 1904), of Schestajowitz / Šestajovice

Generation B — documented children of Moritz (Saaz) and Samuel (Štětí)

Children of Moritz Porges (Saaz) † 1903 :

Heinrich Porges (b. ca. 1864-1865, † Prague 14 August 1917, age 52), Großkaufmann in Prag

   married Regina Porges née Prochownik
   Children : Wolfgang Porges, Käthe Porges, Marianne Porges

Emanuel Porges († Holesovice / Prague VII ca. 7 April 1928)

   married Emma Porges née Ornstein
   Vinohrady & Holesovice merchant ; founder of the Czech-Jewish Holesovice cluster

Alfred Porges (alive 1903, 1917 'derzeit eingerueckt' [conscripted], 1933)

Fanny Frankl née Porges — married Max Frankl

Bertha Wambach née Porges — married Siegfried Wambach

Children of Samuel Porges (Štětí) † 1904 :

MUDr. Karl Porges

   Distriktsarzt in Hrobitsch (1904) —
   later Sanitätskonsulent in Litoměřice († 6 July, probably 1936)
   married Hermine Porges
   Children : Anni (later Mrs. Josef Kohn, Prague), Fritz (later married Trude)
Generation B (continued) — the Holesovice cousins

A second-generation node of the Brandýs family settled in Holesovice (Prague VII) as Czech-Jewish-assimilationist merchants and industrialists. The connection of Edmund Porges (Holesovice, † 30 January 1933, age 65, Sokol founder) to the Brandýs sibship is not directly documented — he is most plausibly a cousin of Heinrich-Emanuel-Alfred (i.e. son of Albert, Ignaz or possibly Salomon Porges of Zeleneč), but firm confirmation requires the Holesovice IKG records.

Edmund Porges (b. ca. 1867-1868, † Holesovice 30 January 1933, age 65)

   Fabrikant, Gründungsmitglied des Sokol, Ehrenmitglied der Občanská Beseda in Prag VII
   married Berta Porges
   Czech-named children : Josef ⛔ Milena, Anna ⛔ Bedřich Wachtl, Jan ⛔ Marie
Primary-source faire-parts

Faire-part

Prager Tagblatt, 22 May 1903

Faire-part of Moritz Porges (Saaz, † 22 May 1903)

The keystone document of this sub-clan. Moritz Porges, Privatier, died on Friday 22 May 1903 in the morning at Saaz (Žatec) in northwestern Bohemia. His body was transferred by railway to Brandýs nad Labem (about 200 km diagonally across northern Bohemia) for burial on Monday 25 May 1903 at 2 p.m., from the Brandýs railway station to the Israelite Cemetery.

Mourners :

  • Sons : Heinrich Porges, Emanuel Porges, Alfred Porges
  • Daughters : Fanni Frankl, Bertha Wambach
  • Sons-in-law : Siegfried Wambach, Max Frankl
  • Daughters-in-law : Regina Porges née Prochownik, Emma Porges née Ornstein
  • Brothers : Albert Porges (Gr.-Zirna), Ignaz Porges (Schestajowitz), Samuel Porges
  • All grandchildren.
Faire-part

Prager Tagblatt, 21 March 1904

Faire-part of Samuel Porges (Wegstädtl, † 21 March 1904)

Samuel Porges of Wegstädtl (Štětí), brother of Moritz, died on Monday 21 March 1904 in his 69th year. Buried at the Israelite Cemetery in Roudnice nad Labem (Radaun) on Wednesday 23 March 1904 at 2 p.m. The faire-part names his three brothers explicitly — Moritz (already deceased the year before), Albert of Groß-Zirnau, Ignaz of Schestajowitz — and his only son, MUDr. Karl Porges, then Distriktsarzt in Hrobitsch.
Faire-part

Prager Tagblatt, ca. 23 July 1900

Faire-part of Salomon Porges (Zeleneč, † ca. 22 July 1900) — probable fifth brother

Salomon Porges of Zeleneč, in his 79th year, died of senile debility on Sunday 22 July (probably 1900). His body was transferred to the same Brandýs nad Labem Israelite Cemetery where Moritz of Saaz would be buried three years later. The shared family burial plot strongly suggests he was a (predeceased) fifth brother of the Brandýs sibship, although no direct kinship statement appears in the announcement — the family signs collectively as « Die trauernden Hinterbliebenen ».
Faire-part

Neue Freie Presse, Wien, 14 August 1917

Faire-part of Heinrich Porges (Prague, † 14 August 1917) — the keystone child-document

Heinrich Porges, Großkaufmann in Prag, died on 14 August 1917 in his 53rd year after a severe illness. His widow Regina née Prochownik signs in her own name and that of their children Wolfgang, Käthe and Marianne. The siblings named in this announcement — Fany Frankl, Bertha Wambach, Emanuel Porges, Alfred Porges (then conscripted) — perfectly match the children of Moritz Porges of Saaz († 1903), definitively establishing Heinrich's place in the Brandýs sibship.
Faire-part

Prager Tagblatt, ca. 7 April 1928

Faire-part of Emanuel Porges (Holesovice, † ca. 7 April 1928)

Emanuel Porges, brother of Heinrich, died at Holesovice / Prague VII in early April 1928. The faire-part names his wife Emma Porges née Ornstein, his surviving siblings (Fanny Frankl, Berta Wambach, Alfred), and an extensive Ornstein in-law network (Leo, Elsa, Richard, Berta Ornstein, Frieda Schwarz, Olga Singer, Jenny Kauder, Kamilla and Adolf Pokorný). The Holesovice address and the strong Czech-language family network confirm Emanuel's role at the centre of the assimilationist Czech-Jewish branch.
Faire-part

Prager Tagblatt, 30 January 1933

Faire-part of Edmund Porges (Holesovice, † 30 January 1933)

Edmund Porges, Fabrikant and Gründungsmitglied des Sokol, founder of the Holesovice industrial Porges clan and signatory member of multiple charitable societies, died at Holesovice on 30 January 1933 in his 66th year. His relation to Heinrich-Emanuel-Alfred remains an open question — he is named in 1933 only as the brother of Alfred Porges, but he is NOT named in either the 1903 Moritz-Saaz or 1917 Heinrich announcements that include Heinrich, Emanuel, Alfred. He is most plausibly a cousin (son of Albert, Ignaz or Salomon-of-Zeleneč).

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