Commemorating 150 years of the Fechheimer Brothers Co.

Fechheimer Brothers Clothing and Uniforms

The Fechheimer family originated in Mitzitz, Bavaria, and family patriarch Samuel Maier was a merchant. Several of his fourteen children immigrated to the U.S. in the mid-1800s, and at least three of them settled in Cincinnati and started a clothing business that would become the Fechheimer Brothers Company. Samuel Fechheimer was the first owner of the company, which opened in 1842, and it expanded, with branches in Kentucky and Kansas. His sons May and Jacob were early owners as well, soon joined by their uncle, Samuel's brother Marcus. A third brother, Wulf, also settled in Cincinnati and frequently opened his house to other family members arriving as immigrants. The Fechheimer Brothers Company still exists, selling uniforms online to police, fire, military, postal, and other service industries. Samuel Fechheimer was also an early Reform Zionist, promoting the idea of Jewish support for Palestine, long before the Reform movement agreed with the idea.