Samuel Fränkel (Hebrew: שמואל פרנקל; 22 November 1801 – 28 July 1881[1]) was a German industrialist.

Samuel Fränkel was born 22 November 1801 in Zülz (currently Biała, Poland).

He founded a linen and terrycloth factory in 1845, at the shore of Prudnik river.

[3] The company was confiscated from the Fränkel family by Nazis in 1938, under the Nuremberg Laws that prohibited German Jews from owning property.

Post-war, the company reopened under the name Zakłady Przemysłu Bawełnianego "Frotex".