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Monday, April 16, 2007

Great businessmen in Jewish history.

CA writes: Please point your reader to my blog, where I am starting a new series on "great businessmen in Jewish history." I am starting with the unrecognized genius of one Yisroel (Julius) Fromm, who left the shtetl for Berlin and gave the world the first latex condom, ans well as the first condom vending machine, as well as the first branded condom, which is still a bestseller in the Bundesrepublik. A story with some tragedy, by the way. He was forced to sell his condom empire to Goering at a great loss, but managed to escape with his life to exile in London. However, he died of a heart attack only 4 days after the allied victory over the Germans. His son had to buy back rights to the name from a relative of Goering, but, in the end, Fromms condoms proudly remain on sale, though I believe the company have been bought out by a conglomerate named "Mapa."

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