Joseph Rosenau was born in Obernzenn around 1843 and his parents were Model and Jette Rosenau.Joseph Rosenau had nine siblings - six brothers and three sisters. Six of the siblings emigrated to the USA in the 1850s.Caroline, the youngest, also emigrated to the USA together with her mother Jette after the death of Model Rosenau in 1868.Joseph Rosenau was a successful and valued ironmonger in Gunzenhausen.He was married to Rosa, née Rauh, born on July 28, 1834.

In 1895, Siegfried Peretz founded a hosiery factory (OHG) in the industrial village of Jahnsbach in the Ore Mountains. In 1904, Peretz moved the stocking factory to Chemnitz. Three years later, his son Albert joins the company as a partner. The young entrepreneur continuously expands the business. In 1921, the company is converted into a public limited company. Peretz's children's and ladies' stockings gained international significance.

In 1938, the company was „aryanized“ and operated under the name Perena-Werk Krauße & Co. until May 1945.

The former home of the factory owner August Hempel was built in 1908/1909 opposite Villa Esche in the style of reform architecture according to plans by the architects Wenzel Bürger and Karl Johann Benirschke. In 1918, the Jewish industrial magnate Oscar Freiherr von Kohorn zu Kornegg (1882-1963) acquired the detached villa with its side buildings, coach house and magnificent park. He had the house extensively renovated and extended in the Art Deco style

Heinrich Frank was born in Chemnitz as the eldest son of the jersey manufacturer Julius Frank. He was one of the young men who fought in the Second World War and had enlisted for service at the front in September 1914.
In May 1922, Heinrich Frank married Rosa Frank. The young couple lived at Katharinenstrasse 2. Their two children Leonore and Erwin Konrad were born in the State Women's Hospital in Chemnitz.

Marschel Frank Sachs AG was a significant Chemnitz textile company (tricot factories and spinning mills), which emerged from the tricot factory of Felix Frank (later Frankwerk) founded in 1885. The company developed into one of the leading textile companies in Saxony before it was "Aryanized" during the Nazi regime in June 1938 and continued to be run by Deutsche Bank as Mafrasa Textilwerke AG.

The businessman Sigmund Goeitz initially founded a trading company for fabric gloves in 1882. From 1899, he began producing tricot and underwear. The ‚Sigmund Goeritz OHG‘ acquires factory premises on Zwickauer Strasse around 1910 and erects a four-storey factory building. Under the management of his son Erich Goeritz, the company developed into one of the leading German manufacturers of women's lingerie under the brand name „Venus“ and founded a public limited company in 1920. In 1927, the architect Hans Poelzig was commissioned to build a reinforced concrete skeleton structure.

In 1870, the brothers Michael Max Goeritz and Moritz Goeritz founded the weaving mill Gebrüder Goeritz OHG, which produced woven fabrics, damasks, plushes and tapestry blankets. After the death of Moritz Goeritz in 1900, his son-in-law Fritz Löwenthal temporarily took over the vacant position in the company. In April 1904, Michael Max Goeritz brought his son Horst into the company. In the same year, a four-storey factory building was erected in Beckerstrasse. Michael Max Goeritz died in 1917, making his son Horst the sole owner of the OHG.

Dr. Siegbert Meyersohn was born on 01.02.1886 in Bromberg. After his marriage to Käthe Salomon, born 08.09.1889 in Botenhagen/Schivelbein, he set up as a general practitioner in the house at Mühlenstr. 11 in Schivelbein. His two daughters Lisa and Eva were born in Schivelbein in 1914 and 1921. He took part in the First World War as a field doctor and was awarded the Iron Cross. After the death of his father-in-law Max Salomon, he succeeded him as head of the Israelite community. He was arrested during the Pogrom Night and interned in Sachsenhausen. The family then moved to Berlin.

The assets of the Jewish textile manufacturer family Löw-Beers were confiscated in 1939 in favor of the German Reich and placed under trustee administration. Alfred Löw-Beer (1867–1939) was arrested by the Gestapo in March 1939, but was able to escape from the holding cell. Under hitherto unexplained circumstances, however, he was found dead a few days later near the South Bohemian town of Stříbro, having tried to flee his occupied homeland under a false identity to join his family in Switzerland.