To date, a red shield can still be seen at the center of the Rothschild coat of arms. One of Amschel Rothschild’s clients was Crown Prince Wilhelm of Hesse. The real power behind the United States is the Rothschild banking family, which can trace its roots to 1743 when Moses Amschel Bauer put the red hexagram above his doorway. His father Amschel Moses Rothschild, who died a year after Mayer Amschel became Bar Mitzvah, had hoped that his son would be a rabbi. Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his sons establish what was known as the Five Arrows of Banking. The real power behind the United States is the Rothschild banking family, which can trace its roots to 1743 when Moses Amschel Bauer put the red hexagram above his doorway. Moses Amschel Bauer places a red sign above the entrance door to his counting house. His father was Amschel Moses Rothschild, born in 1710, and he was a money changer, he had traded with the Prince of Hesse. His father Amschel Moses Rothschild was a German Jewish money-changer and merchant in Frankfurt. Amschel Moses Rothschild. 1743: Mayer Amschel Bauer is born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Moses Amschel Bauer, a moneylender and the proprietor of a counting house. ... located between two towns named for Edmond de Rothschild and his father: Binyamina (so named for Edmond’s Hebrew name) and Zichron Yaakov. He was the son of Moses Amschel Bauer an itinerant money lender and goldsmith who, tiring of his wanderings in Eastern Europe, decided to settle down in the city where his first son was born. Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his five sons – the start of an empire. After Mayer Amschel Bauer’s father Moses Amschel Bauer died, Mayer changed his name from Bauer to Rothschild (Rot = red / Schild = sign). 1753: Gutle Schnaper, (future wife of Mayer Amschel Bauer) was born to respected merchant Wolf Salomon Schnaper. International prominence for this family began in 1744, when Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in Frankfurt, am Main, Germany. These golden arrows can be seen on the eagle’s talons visible on the coat of arms city from Frankfurt, Germany. 1753: His father Amschel Moses Rothschild, who died a year after Mayer Amschel became Bar Mitzvah , had hoped that his son would be a rabbi. Mayer Amschel Bauer was born in Frankfurt-On-The-Main in Germany in 1743. The founder of this world-famous banking firm was Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who was born in Frankfort 214 years ago, in a very religious family, several members of which were rabbis. This sign is a red hexagram (which geometrically and numerically translates into the number 666) which under Rothschild instruction will end up on the Israeli flag some two centuries later. That was also the year his son Mayer was born in Bavaria. His father, Amschel Moses Rothschild, traded coins and other commodities for a living. 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