Department store Meyer

Georg Meyer (born December 5, 1888 in Guben; February 3, 1940 in Shanghai) founded the Neuheiten-Kaufhaus department store in Frankfurt after completing a commercial apprenticeship. It was located for rent at Jüdenstrasse 17, corner of Große Scharrnstrasse 18, until 1938. In 1918, he took on his brother Siegfried Meyer as an equal partner and founded a general partnership. He married Maria Bertha Meyer née Schüler (called Betty) with whom he had a daughter, Ursula Meyer. The family lived at Buschmühlenweg 31 (today 41). At the end of 1938, Georg Meyer had about 40 employees and about 800,000 Reichsmark in sales. In 1938, under pressure from the Gestapo, the Meyer department store was closed and the warehouse and inventory were sold far below cost. After the pogrom night on November 9, 1938, Georg Meyer was imprisoned under prisoner number 012599 in prisoner block 57 of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and released on November 26, 1938. The Meyer couple had to emigrate to Shanghai in April 1939. On December 11, 1939, the Gestapo confiscated Meyer's remaining assets. Georg Meyer died in Shanghai on February 3, 1940. His wife Maria Bertha Meyer née Schüler (called Betty; born May 25, 1893 in Dossen; died after 1966 in the USA)  went to San Francisco with daughter Ursula and son-in-law Leo. Ursula and Leo died in 1966, at which time Betty Meyer was living in a retirement home