Department store - A. Spanier

The picture postcard shows the department store A. Spanier still in Karolinenstraße. The Augsburg address book for 1933, printed in 1932, documents the living and ownership conditions even before the National Socialists came to power. There, the address of the department store A. Spanier (Address Book 1902 Litera B 258 Annaplatz ) is Martin-Luther-Platz 5 as of 1933. The department store A. Spanier was located on the first floor of the ladies' and men's underwear factory Friedmann & Dannenbaum, which employed hundreds of workers in large cutting and sewing rooms on the upper floors. The A. Spanier department store was also affected by the calls for boycotts against Jewish businesses in Augsburg that began as early as the beginning of 1931, and which were carried out on a massive scale in early April 1933 by displaying banners calling for boycotts, putting up banners with the inscription "Germans, avoid this Jewish business!", and the "Jewish business!" banner. Support the government in the defensive struggle against the abominable propaganda of Jewry"  and the distribution of corresponding handbills in front of Jewish stores. In the course of the so-called "Aryanization" the owner Ludwig Friedmann had to sell his company in 1938. The forced sale of the business building followed in 1939. In February 1944, the building was destroyed in a bombing raid. Today, the site is home to the headquarters of the Augsburg District Savings Bank, which had a metal plaque installed there in 2010 commemorating the previous building and the former owners Ludwig Friedmann and his sister Jenny Friedmann.