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Levi Strauss was born to a Jewish family in Buttenheim on February 26, 1829, in the Franconia region of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Confederation. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the son of Hirsch Strauss and Hirsch’s second wife, Rebecca Strauss (née Haas).
Daniel is an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune as Peter is the great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss. [7] Lurie says he grew up "most of the time in [Haas's] house." [4] Brian was executive director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco. [8] Daniel has two brothers, Ari [3] and Alexander, and one sister, Sonia.
Peter Haas, now deceased, was the great-grandnephew of the Levi's founder and a longtime executive at the company. Lurie and his mother are among the primary heirs of the Levi Strauss family fortune.
Levi Strauss heir and nonprofit executive Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco. He vowed a "new era of accountability, service and change."
Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [2] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.
Daniel Lurie, who is one of the heirs to the Levi Strauss jeans company fortune, is now the San Francisco mayor-elect. The Democrat, 47, was elected after defeating incumbent mayor London Breed ...
He grew up in a Conservative Jewish family [9] with his younger brother Bill Goldman, who died at age 38 in a plane crash in Sonoma, California, [10] as well as his sister Alice Reiter. [11] Daniel is an heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune. [7]
David Stern was born to a Jewish family in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1820. [1] In the 1840s, he immigrated to the United States first to New York then the American South and finally to San Francisco in 1853 or 1855 where he was later joined by his brother-in-law Levi Strauss. [1]