Factory for lighting objects and gas fittings - Israel Brothers

The company "Gebrüder Israel" was founded in 1908. Felix Israel, the director of the company "Gebrüder Israel" had a five-story factory built in 1912 at Kohlfurter Straße 41-43 and Kottbusserstraße 10. The company was known at home and abroad as a major exporter of lamps. In addition to lighting fixtures, the company also manufactured gas and water fittings. During the 1st World War, the company also produced pickel hoods. In 1931, as a result of the world economic crisis, the factory owner Felix Israel resigned from his position as director. In 1933, he emigrated to Spain because of increasing racial hostility, and in 1941 continued via Cuba to New York. In 1933, the company merged with the Frister lamp factory in Oberschöneweide. From then on, the company was called Israel Frister AG. In the course of the so-called "Aryanization" in 1936, Walter Goldberg, Felix Israel's successor, had to give up his post. The now renamed Frister AG - Factory for lighting fixtures still existed until 1964.