Moses Group Portrait

Salo Schottländer was a printer in Breslau (present day Wrocław, Poland). He was the son of an elite, land-owning Jewish family. His brother Julius became the only Jewish lord in Silesia. Salo served in the military during the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). He learned the book trade in Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Paris. In 1873, he co-founded a liberal daily newspaper, Schlesische Presse, in Breslau, and within a few years had opened a bookshop and begun publishing newspapers. In 1889, his firm merged with another to form one of the largest Jewish printing firms in Germany.