Haberdashery and toy wholesaler - Wernecker & Farnbacher

The owners of the company Wernecker & Farnbacher - Otto and Fritz Farnbacher had to sell the company and the house to the company Grimm, Schmitt and Co. KG in 1938 in the course of the so-called Aryanization. Later the house was transferred to the NSDAP. Fritz Farnbacher had been the owner of a residential house at Hochfeldstraße 31 since 1925. In 1938 he was forced to sell his residential house and take in other Jewish families. His wife had to work in the balloon factory. On March 7 or 8, 1943, the Farnbacher couple was deported to Auschwitz together with other residents of Hallbachstraße and murdered there. The day of Fritz Farnbacher's death was March 17, 1943.