ABSTRACT
The Gomperts family initially operated out of Kleve in Germany, where their progenitor Gompert Salomon had made a fortune by supplying alcohol and tobacco to the troops of the Dutch garrison. He also set himself up as the leader of the Jewish congregation in Kleve, before later settling in Emmerich. In the second half of the seventeenth century his descendants created an internationally famous trading and banking firm, with branches in Germany, central Europe, England and the Dutch Republic.
