Cigar factory - H. Nördlinger

The owner of the cigar factory H. Nördlinger was Eduard Nördlinger, who came from Pflaumloch. He was married to Betty, née Gerstle from Ichenhausen. One son of the couple was Dr. Julius Nördlinger, who studied medicine in Würzburg from 1909 and at the same time joined a field doctor regiment as a volunteer, to which he belonged until the end of the war. Julius Nördlinger received his doctorate in medicine in 1915. Military service was followed by training as a specialist in internal medicine at Augsburg's main hospital. He opened his own practice in 1920 in Augsburg at Bahnhofstraße 5. Due to his political commitment as a party member of the SPD as well as in the form of support of the Reichbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold as a team doctor of the Augsburg column, he was targeted by the National Socialists at an early stage and was taken into so-called "protective custody" along with other political opponents as early as March 1933. After his license to practice medicine was revoked in 1938 and he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp on the occasion of the Pogrom Night, he decided to leave Germany. In March 1939, Dr. Julius Nördlinger and his wife Else managed to escape via Switzerland to the USA. In Chicago, Dr. Julius Nördlinger died of a heart attack in 1946, one day after his 56th birthday.