Moritz Kissinger was born in Bad Kissingen as the third child of the merchant and master tailor Max Kissinger and his wife Ernestine, née Frank in January 1880. His father owned a flourishing men’s clothes and tailoring business at Marktplatz. Between 1890 and 1896, Moritz attended Kissingen Realschule and graduated with outstanding results.

After that he went to Nuremberg where he did a commercial apprenticeship with the renowned wholesale firm of “Lang & Mainz”, one of his father’s business partners. After finishing his apprenticeship in about 1899, Moritz Kissinger traveled throughout Southern Germany on behalf of his firm in order to look after the customers of “Lang & Mainz” and get orders from them. At the age of 19, he met Frida Lust from Bamberg (1881-1966). He fell in love with her, decided to start his own business and have a family. In 1905, the two of them married. Moritz Kissinger worked hard and expanded his firm with a lot of skill and intelligence. With the start of World War I, this positive development abruptly came to a standstill. Moritz was drafted in and did his military service at “Landsturm”. But after some time, he succeeded in being transferred to a semi-civilian area of the army: He became responsible for providing the army with clothing for three years. In 1919, Moritz left the army. His attempt to bring his business back to success turned out to be more difficult than expected because of the galloping inflation. It took him several years to render his firm profitable again in 1923. Up to the beginning of Hitler’s dictatorship, some really good years followed for him. 

In 1935, he visited Palestine together with his wife Frida and his daughter Erna and decided to emigrate there, if there was an opportunity to do so. But as he already died in Nuremberg in 1936 the emigration planned by him didn’t occur. His wife, however, adopted his plan and went to Palestine in August 1937 together with her children Erna and Martin. She died in Israel in 1966. Her son Martin (1909-1997) also worked in the clothing business like his father.