Herman Kafka Biography

Herman Kafka, the father of Franz Kafka, was born on September 14, his father, Jacob Kafka, was a butcher. As it was customary in the circle of Jewish artisans and merchants, he is probably all his five brothers and sisters Philip, German, Ludwig, Julie, Anna were already involved in work since childhood. Having served in the army from up to a year, he went to Prague, where he first worked as a simple merchant in South Bohemia.

During his engagement with Julia Levy, he began preparations for the founding of his own business, and by the time of his marriage on September 3, numerous crossings inside the old part of Prague, as well as a constant expansion of the case, allocate his social rise in society to 15 employees. Things were so good that German began to belong to Herman in the Kinsky Palace on the Old Town Square, for the end of his life, Herman also owned a residential building on Bilkov Street in the Old Town.

Herman Kafka was a strong, entrepreneurial, ambitious and strong -willed person who pursued the goal of social progress and success throughout his life. Hermann Kafka's Galanterian shop on the first floor on the right of disputes about what role Herman Kafka played in the life of his son, go to this day. On the one hand, he was certainly proud of his educational career, which reached graduate school and exceeded his own horizon far.

On the other hand, he was disappointed that the obvious giftedness of his son was combined with complete apathy for all matters. Herman Kafka was not a ruthless tyrant, but still on his children he practiced permanent verbal and moral pressure in order to force them to make their life plans coincide with his own ideas. Deviations of disobedience were accompanied by incomprehensible, often ironic or contemptuous remarks - the behavior from which Franz, as well as his youngest daughter, was primarily suffered by.

Herman Kafka was poorly interested in the writer's work of his son, he considered him nothing more than a hobby, and later as an art that does not bring a piece of bread, which distracts from profitable activity. Obviously, the social staircase was for Herman Kafka the corner of the picture of the world: he admired everyone who reached a welfare and was removed from everyone he socially surpassed.

His son very early realized that this opportunism was definitely contrary to the living and stubborn behavior of Herman. Conflicts with his father took part in all the key moments of Franz’s life: his education, his choice of career and relations with his relatives and women. Despite the dual attitude towards his father, Kafka understood him more than Father Kafka.

Thus, he largely put up with his father’s position, his reproaches, his disapproval and prohibitions, albeit with difficulty. Herman and Julia Kafka, a year before the death of Herman, G. In July, German Kafka sold his haberdashery to relatives. After the death of his son, he signed an agreement that determined Max ford by the publisher of Kafka's heritage and ranked Dore Diamont 45 percent of publications.

In the last years of his life, Herman Kafka was weak, photography shows him in a wheelchair. He died on June 6