Department store Heinrich Tietz

The department store Tietz was founded on May 09, 1883 by Julius Tietz, a Jewish businessman from Gera, under the name of his brother Heinrich Tietz at Ernst-Arnold-Platz 10. The opening took place on June 6, 1883, making the Greiz store the second branch to be opened in Thuringia after the one in Gera (1882). Since November 5, 1887, Eduard Lippmann was the new branch manager. At Ernst-Arnold-Platz 10 there used to be the Fritz'sche or rather C. G. Weber's residential building. When the Hotel zum Löwen“ was also demolished in 1907, Tietz acquired a strip of land that remained vacant and expanded the department store in 1910. After the death of Heinrich Tietz, Julius Tietz arranged for the transfer of the business to the ownership of long-time limited partner Eduard Lippmann in 1910. 1921 also his son Kurt Lippmann became co-owner.
After the call to boycott of companies of Jüdischer owners pulled up on 01 April 1933 also in front of the department store Tietz SS guards. They were supposed to photograph people entering the store and thus discourage the population from shopping there. However, a large part of the population of Greiz was not deterred by this. After the closure of the Tietz department store on August 27, 1938, it passed into non-Jewish ownership. It was reopened in September 1938 as „Greizer Kaufhaus“ under the management of Robert Wittig and by proxy of A. Roth