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mass conversion to Christianity. For example, Moses
Dobrushka himself married the niece of Joachim Popper
(1720-1795), 132 who was a merchant banker. Francesca
Dobrushka, his sister, married into the Hoenig family, 133 later
ennobled as the von Hoenigsbergs. 134
The Hoenigsberg family acquired most of its wealth as
descendants of Loebel Hoenig who, during the Austrian
secessions of 1740-1748 and the Seven-Year War of 1756-
1763, accumulated a fantastic fortune as a Supplier of the
Austrian army.
Loebel's eldest son, Israel Hoenig (1724-1808), achieved
control of the Austrian tobacco monopoly. Joseph II, Emperor
of Austria, incorporated the monopoly in 1784 as a
government corporation, and retained Israel as a director, thus
making Israel Hoenig the first Jew to become an Austrian
official.
Israel's partner in the tobacco business was his brother
Aaron Moses (1730-1787). Aaron Moses had ten children, all
of whom were baptized in 1796. Israel had six sons and one
daughter. One of his sons, Leopold (1744-1815), married the
daughter of Jonas Wehle, the Frankist leader of Prague,
prominent in the Reform movement. 135 Leopold was an active
Frankist and complained to the Prague police, accusing the
Rabbis of religious coercion and requesting protection. He
sought constantly to undermine, by deception, Rabbinical
authority, and authored a thirty-two-page protest in Prague,
which was similar in its anti-Semitic character to the
aforementioned writings of Zalkind Hourwitz.
Leopold Hoenigsberg's brother-in-law was Rabbi Wolf
Eibeschutz, 136 the son of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschutz, who
married another daughter of Jonas Wehle. 137 Jonas Wehle
(1752-1823) 138 in addition to being pivotal in his influence, was
an outstanding aristocrat in Prague. He had a nephew named
Gottlieb Wehle, who was also a very prominent Sabbatian.
Gottlieb Wehle came to the United States with a large
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