Cigarette manufacturer - Wilhelm Lande

Immediately after the National Socialist seizure of power and the centrally organized boycott against Jewish retailers and traders, doctors' surgeries and law firms in Dresden on 1 April 1933, the Jewish Lande family decided to sell the company, which was highly modern at the time, and emigrate: Wilhelm Lande and his wife gave in to pressure from the Nazi regime and emigrated to the USA in the spring of 1933, daughter Cäcilie sold the W. Lande cigarette factory and the subsidiary Macedonia to the ‚Aryan‘ cigarette entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Karl Geissinger in June/July 1933 and also left Germany. In the course of "Aryanization", the company W. Lande became a GmbH in 1933. Reemtsma acquired a „hidden“ shareholding of 50 % in the company in 1938. In 1942, the company was renamed  Karl Geissinger KG and the name 'Lande' was deleted from the company register.