| ![Show Contents]() Rotstein History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 Germany The name Rotstein is denotes at the "red sign" at the "old house on the Upper Rhine." 1 At times, "red" was in reference to a "red shield" or in Yiddish a "red coat." Early Origins of the Rotstein familyThe surname Rotstein was first found in Speyer, a city in Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. Here Hartmut zum Rotenschite or Rotschilt was recorded in 1313. At about the same time, the name Rotscilt was registered in Lübeck, a city in Northern Germany in 1338. 1 The famed Rothschild banking family were originally from Frankfurt. Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, established his banking business in the 1760s. His five sons established businesses in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. Early History of the Rotstein familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Rotstein research. Another 90 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1710, 1715, 1744, 1755 and 1812 are included under the topic Early Rotstein History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Rotstein Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Rothstein, Rothenstein, Rothmaler, Rothenmaler, Roddenstein, Rodenmaler, Rodstein, Rotstein, Rochstein, Roytenstein, Roitenstein, Roitstein, Rojtenstein, Reitenstein, Ruttenstein, Ruthstein, Routenstein and many more. Early Notables of the Rotstein familyNotables with the name Rotstein during this period were Amschel Moses Rothschild (c. 1710-1755) was a German Jewish money changer and trader in silk cloth in the Judengasse, the Jewish ghetto of the Free...
Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Rotstein Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Rotstein familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: G. Rothstein, who arrived at the port of Baltimore in 1834; William Rothstein, who arrived in New York from Bremen in 1853; Axel Victor Rothstein, who arrived in California in 1851.
| Contemporary Notables of the name Rotstein (post 1700) | + |
- Andrew Rotstein, American politician, Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1976 2
- Bahlow, Hans, Dictionary of German Names. translated by Edda Gentry, Wisconsin: The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 2002. Print. (ISBN 0-924119-35-7)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 10) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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