Mechanical cotton weaving mill - Isaak Bernheim

In 1874, the Constance merchant Jacob Koblenzer and his brother Adolf Koblenzer founded the company "Mechanische Weberei" in Meersburg .Isaak Bernheim was also involved as a partner of Adolf Koblenzer. Later the ways probably separated, because in Augsburg  Isaak Bernheim is mentioned as 2nd owner of a  weaving mill, which was probably founded in 1866 in a smaller scale, and which still became a respectable factory by its later 4th owner Bemberg ( J. P. Bemberg AG. ). Isaak Bernheim had gone bankrupt with the "Mechanische Baumwollweberei" in 1887. In 1888, Isaak Bernheim founded the "Bernheimersche Schlichte- und Appretturmittelfabrik" at Färberstraße 12, first under the name of his wife Rosa Bernheim, and later the "Chemische Fabrik Pfersee". Due to its products, which were of interest to the military, the company came under the scrutiny of the National Socialists as early as 1933. Willy Bernheim was arrested on the charge of "foreign exchange offences" and the company was henceforth run by the employees in the interests of the National Socialists. The Bernheim family was able to flee abroad in time. After the 2nd World War, the company was again transferred by the state to the son of the former owner.