Paul Fürst

After the death of his father, who died of typhoid fever and is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery and his mother, Paul Fürst grew up with his uncle Paul Weibhauser as his legal guardian, who live in Salzburg and owned a pastry shop at Brodgasse 13.

Paul Fürst learned the profession of confectioner from Weibhauser and then continued his education in the leading confectioneries in the cities of Vienna, Budapest, Paris and Nice.

[2] He married Emilie Baumgartner on 2 August 1887[3] and had a son, Johann Hermann Vinzenz, born on 27 March 1891.

In 1890, Paul Fürst created a praline there, consisting of pistachio-marzipan coated with nougat and dark couverture chocolate, and named it "Mozartkugel" after the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (at that time it was still called "Mozartbonbon").

[7] The confectionery Fürst, which is still family-owned, handmakes the Mozartkugeln according to the traditional recipe and with the original manufacturing method and sold only at its four locations in Salzburg (as well as by mail), while the imitation products are usually industrially produced and traded in large quantities.