Former Freidberg department store

The Freidberg department store employed around 60 people until its forced sale in 1936. It was the largest department store in Celle before Karstadt, but from 1933 it suffered from the NSDAP's calls for a boycott, so that the business was closed in 1936 and Ida Freidberg emigrated to the USA in 1937.
In 1899, Neumann Freidberg, who had run the "Berliner Warenhaus" department store at Am Markt 6 since 1895, had a new department store built. It was Celle's first department store. The business was able to expand as early as 1906. A modern residential and commercial complex was built on the neighboring property at Am Markt 5, based on Otto Haesler's designs, and the building at Am Markt 4 was added in 1922.

After the deaths of the Neumann (1917) and Alex (1932) brothers, Ida Freidberg took over the business. She sold it to the Goedecke und Mittelmann company in 1936, which in turn sold the building complex on to the city.

In 1950, the former owner filed an application for property restitution, which ended in a settlement.

From: http://www.celle-im-ns.de/orte/warenhaus-freidberg