The Dortmund address book from 1912 contains the following entry: Frank I Max, lawyer, apartment: Göbenstr. 24, office: Ostenhellweg 50, F. 3231. -  Dr. Max Frank was born in Hameln on 14 November 1870. He came from a middle-class Jewish family. His father was a grain merchant and banker. After leaving school, Max Frank studied law. He was admitted to the bar in August 1898. At the turn of the century, Max Frank moved to Dortmund and practiced as a lawyer there. The first law offices are documented in 1901 at Kaiserstra e 26. On May 28, 1901, he married Margarete Elias.

Isidor Goldschmidt was born on September 27, 1846 in Lemförde.His parents were the Lemförder merchant Samuel Goldschmidt and his wife Johanna Goldschmidt née Cohn.1872/73 Isidor Goldschmidt married Fanny Katzenstein, a native of Rinteln, daughter of the merchant Hermann Katzenstein and his wife Schönchen.

Sigmund Glesinger was born on December 6, 1863 in Ostrau, Saalkreis in Saxony-Anhalt. His parents were Joseph Philipp Glesinger, born on March 2, 1838, and his wife Charlotte, née Ripper, born on April 6, 1840. Sigmund Glesinger was married to Maria Glesinger, née Frank, born on October 28, 1896 in Cologne.

Old synagogue with school and mikvah

Willy Wertheimer remembers in his book " Willi Wertheimer: Zwischen zwei Welten. Der Förster in Brooklyn." about his time from March 1919 to 1924 as a teacher in the Jewish community of Eubigheim and also mentions a Miss Hannchen Buxbaum, who owned a small cottage next to the synagogue. 

The Leipzig address book from 1915 contains the following entries: Friedländer, Arthur, merchant, Fichtestr.13. I. s. Arthur Friedländer, - Friedländer, jun., Arthur, merchant, Fichtestr. 13. I., s. Arthur Friedländer, - Arthur Friedländer, founded 1881, cigarette and tobacco mail order business, Petersteinweg 18. I., (Tel.7426), (BK. Allg. D. Cred. Anst.), owned by Arthur Friedländer and Arthur Friedländer jun.

The following entries can be found in the address book of the city of Worms: Mannheimer Adolf, merchant, Judengasse 5; - Mannheimer Eugenie, without trade, Judengasse 5.

The following entry can be found in the address book of the city of Worms from 1876: Guggenheim Daniel, fruit merchant, with Niederlage, flour and potato merchant, Kämmererstraße 29.

Leonhard Tietz was born on March 3, 1849 in Birnbaum in the province of Posen. His career as a department store entrepreneur began in Stralsund with the opening of a small textile store (yarn, button, trimming and woolen goods store) on August 14, 1879. The store in Stralsund was followed by a similar store in Elberfeld in 1882, then another store in Schweinfurt in 1884 and in Amberg in 1888. When the store in Elberfeld became too small, Leonhard Tietz realized his long-cherished wish and built his first multi-line department store there in 1885.

The address book of the city of Vienna from 1886 contains the following entry: Lichtenstern Jakob, Jac. Lichtenstern & Söhne, Tuch- und Schafwollwaren - Ndlge., Salzgries 1 - Jacob LIchtenstern was born around 1808 in Mikulov /Republic of the Czech Republic. He was married to Angelika Carolina Gassinger, born in 1817 in Miroslav / Republic of the Czech Republic.