Joseph Süß Oppenheimer

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698, Heidelberg – February 4, 1738, Stuttgart) is a Jewish banker and financial planner for Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg in Stuttgart.

He is a nephew and stepson of the banker Samuel Oppenheimer, diplomat and Shtadlan to Kaiser Leopold of Austria.

Throughout his career, Oppenheimer makes scores of powerful enemies, some of whom conspire to bring about his arrest and execution after Karl Alexander's death.

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.

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