Hamburger Engros Lager Meyer & Co - The department store for fashions and dowries

Since 1881, Isidor Meyer ran a lingerie and trousseau shop in the Groäer Plan 3 building, which over time became a real department store, the "Hamburger Engros Lager". After he was able to acquire the adjacent building, he had an imposing and stylish business premises (CZ) built in 1905 in place of the two half-timbered houses.

At this time, the company employed 30 people and had 300 customers a day. Isidor Meyer was a member of various prestigious associations and from 1900 to 1913 was head of the Jewish community in Celle.

His son Robert (born 1874) took over the company in 1913. In 1928, he gave up the business in the face of the competition created by the arrival of Karstadt and leased the business premises to Karstadt, which set up a department store in the Groäer Plan 2/3 building. Robert Meyer was managing director there until his forced resignation in 1933.

After the Pogrom Night, Meyer was forced to sell his house to the city of Celle. However, the transaction was delayed, partly due to the city's fault, so that he missed the last possible moment to emigrate. He was deported on March 16, 1943 and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on August 31, 1943.

From: http://www.celle-im-ns.de/index.php/orte/robert-meyer-hamburger-engros-lager