Joseph Süß Oppenheimer

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698? – February 4, 1738) was a German Jewish banker and court Jew for Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg in Stuttgart. Throughout his career, Oppenheimer made scores of powerful enemies, some of whom conspired to bring about his arrest and execution after Karl Alexander's death.

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Joseph Süß Oppenheimer
Born	1698 or 1699 Heidelberg, Electoral Palatinate
Died	February 4, 1738(1738-02-04) (aged 39) Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg
Occupation	Court Jew

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In the centuries since his execution, Oppenheimer's rise and fall have been treated in two notable literary works, and his ordeal inspired two films, including the antisemitic production Jud Süß, released in Nazi Germany in 1940, itself the cause for a famous postwar trial.^[1]