Karl Amson Joel was a German-Jewish textile merchant and manufacturer. He was the grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel. Joel born in Colmberg as the son of a textile merchant. In 1928 he founded a mail order selling company for textiles and clothes in Nuremberg. The following year he also started manufacturing. Joel's company soon became one of the leading mail order sellers in Germany (along with Quelle or Schöpflin). Wikipedia
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Karl Amson Joel was a Jewish textile factory owner in Nuremberg in the 1920's/30's. After a Nazi newspaper declared him a 'prototype of the criminal jewry' he relocated to Berlin where he was eventually forced to sell his company for well under it's mark www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t54124.html
