City walk Frankfurt am Main: Company address Ostend

The Frankfurt businessman Ludwig Neuberger initially founded an "agency in manufactured goods" and, in 1900, the "Wäschefabrik en gros" L. Neuberger & Co. The company produced cleaning, dusting and polishing cloths. After the death of Ludwig Neuberger, his sons Otto and Fritz Neuberger took over the company and transformed the family business into a public limited company called "LENCO". The business premises in Mainzer Landstraße were soon no longer sufficient, so the Neuberger brothers built a prestigious new building on Osthafenplatz in 1912/13. The building, which has been preserved, has five floors and was equipped with a steam boiler system, two goods elevators and a passenger elevator. It also had its own railway siding. After the First World War, the product range was expanded. Printed and dyed swimwear, in particular bathrobes, were now also produced. There were six production departments: The spray printing department, the film printing department, the machine printing department, the dyeing department, the ready-to-wear department and the sewing department. Record sales were achieved in the years 1926 to 1928 and the company employed 300 workers and 20 commercial employees. Lenco products were produced and sold in Germany, Europe and overseas. At the beginning of the 1930s, there were economic restrictions. The company was reorganized and the stock corporation was dissolved. According to Elly Neuberger, Otto Neuberger's wife, her husband sold the company and company building in 1933 "far below its real value". The Neuberger couple and their daughter emigrated to Palestine in 1935, where they lived in poor conditions.

The Wittwe Hassan delicatessen was founded in 1878. The store was named after the widow of a Turkish coffee plantation owner; she invested her late husband's fortune in the establishment of the first Frankfurt branch. The Jewish merchants Julius Sommer and Alfred Mayer took over the company in 1912 and gradually opened further branches. The product range included coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, pastries, sweets, jams and other delicatessen products. The central warehouse and the coffee roasting plant were located at Hanauer Landstraße 147-149 from 1932. Most of the branches were owned by their branch managers, who were only allowed to sell Wittwe Hassan products. At the beginning of the 1930s, the managing directors pushed ahead with international expansion and founded a branch in Paris. The Nazi economic policy and the associated boycotts also hit Wittwe Hassan hard. In 1935, the number of branches owned by Mayer and Sommer fell to 17. The group was "aryanized" and transferred to the Frankfurt merchant Adolf Krämer. During the November pogrom of 1938, Julius Sommer was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Both former managing directors managed to flee into exile.

Philipp Mayfarth and Samuel Moser founded the agricultural machinery business Ph. Mayfarth & Co. in 1872, which had been based on Hanauer Landstraße since 1881. Among other things, the company produced agricultural implements, fodder preparation machines as well as chopping and threshing machines. Beet cutters, cleaning and fruit mills, wine presses and dehydrators were added later. The opening of a branch in Insterburg marked the beginning of the development of the agricultural province of East Prussia. Another factory was opened in 1910 on Orber Straße in Fechenheim-Nord (today: Klassikstadt). After the turn of the century, the company developed into one of the leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery in Europe. In the years before the First World War, annual production amounted to 35,000 machines; in total, Mayfarth & Co. employed over 1,100 employees and workers (cf. Mergen 2000, p. 148). After expanding into various German cities, branches followed in Vienna, Moscow, Paris, London and Milan. During the First World War, Mayfarth & Co. lost all its subsidiaries and branches abroad. Company founder Samuel Moser did not live to see the end of the war; he died in 1917 and was succeeded by his son Leo Moser. The new managing director intensified exports to Africa and South America and tried to build on the company's earlier successes. Repression against Mayfarth & Co. intensified from 1933 onwards. The company was "Aryanized" in 1938 and taken over by Frankfurter Maschinenbau AG, vorm. Pokorny & Wittekind. A forced labor camp was set up on the factory premises on Orber Straße. In 1942, over 400 prisoners of war from various countries were held here. Leo Moser and his wife Emmi Moser, née Neumann, managed to escape into exile in the US in 1941.

The merchants Conrad Schade and Oscar Füllgrabe opened the colonial goods store of the same name in Frankfurt's Old Town in 1878. Due to the socialist laws introduced by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the social democrat Füllgrabe had to leave Frankfurt in 1887. The business was sold to the Jewish merchant Joseph Halberstadt. The number of branches increased steadily. By 1910, Schade & Füllgrabe was already represented at 70 locations in Frankfurt and the surrounding area. In the same year, the large central warehouse was opened at Hanauer Landstraße 169-173. The building complex housed the company's own coffee roasting plant. Modern systems were used for quality testing and packaging the food. Wine was also bottled automatically. After the death of Joseph Halberstadt and his wife Susanna Halberstadt, their son Julius Halberstadt and son-in-law Lenor Helft took over the management of the company. In 1932, Schade & Füllgrabe reached its largest expansion to date with 144 branches. When the National Socialists came to power, Jewish business owners were increasingly excluded from economic life. By 1934, sales had already fallen by 30%. In 1936, all properties and branches were sold to the Wilhelm Wehrhahn company. Julius Halberstadt managed to flee to the USA, where he died in 1939. After 1945, the new Group management succeeded in building on past successes. In 1952, the first discount store with self-service was opened at Eschenheimer Turm. In 1992, the entire Schade & Füllgrabe store system was taken over by the Tengelmann Group.

Moritz James Oppenheimer (1879-1941) founded the Mitteldeutsche mechanische Papierwarenfabrik in 1906, which was based at Hanauer Landstraße 181-185 from 1910. The factory in Ostend had modern production facilities and a rail siding. It produced corrugated cardboard and paper sacks for a wide range of industries. The paper sacks were also exported abroad. More and more companies preferred to use paper sacks instead of jute sacks due to the low cost of production. The company was considered the largest of its kind in the German Reich and employed around 200 people in Frankfurt alone. A further 70 to 80 employees worked in the branch office in Berlin. In 1927, his son Walter Oppenheimer (1904-1972) joined the company and became the first authorized signatory of the Frankfurt plant in 1931. In the fall of 1933, Moritz James Oppenheimer was arrested on a pretext and held in the Frankfurt court prison, from 1934 in the Preungesheim prison. He was forced - presumably under pressure - to sign a bankruptcy petition for the paper goods factory. According to the company register of the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the company went bankrupt in 1933. Presumably in the face of increasing threats, Moritz James Oppenheimer took his own life on May 4, 1941 at the age of 61 with an overdose of sleeping pills. His son Walter Oppenheimer survived the Shoah and lived in Frankfurt after 1945.

The Edelmuth & Oppenheim chemical and soap factory was entered in the commercial register in 1922. The company was located at Schwedlerstraße 6 opposite the company J. Latscha (today ATELIERFRANKFURT e.V.). The owners were Friedrich Michael and Ernst Berthold Edelmuth as well as Berthold and Joseph Salomon. In 1931, Edelmuth & Oppenheim was classified as a "medium-sized business" by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK). Orders from the authorities were approved, as there was no evidence against the company. In 1937, the company achieved a turnover of 600,000 Reichsmark and employed 30 workers and employees. However, the Nazi takeover was accompanied by numerous restrictions. From March 1938, the company was no longer allowed to accept public contracts. On 23 August 1938, the district president approved the "Aryanization" of the company. The Mainz businessman Ernst Kalkhof, who acquired the soap factory for less than it was worth, profited from this. The Chamber of Industry and Commerce also welcomed the takeover. From then on, the company name was "Dr. Walter Rose & Co.". The former owners managed to flee into exile in the USA. Adele Edelmuth, née Mayer, the mother of company owners Friedrich Michael and Ernst Berthold Edelmuth, however, was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp or the Maly Trostinez extermination camp. Stumbling stone for Adele Edelmuth at Gärtnerweg 47 (Westend). 

The company Gebrüder Strauss moved its headquarters from Heilbronn to Frankfurt in 1910. The purpose of the limited company was to trade in raw animal products. The owners were Emil and Richard Strauss. According to the entry in the company register of the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce from 1937, everything initially remained the same after the National Socialists came to power: "Jews! Enjoy the reputation of reputable and capable merchants who are well acquainted with the industry. In personal terms We are not aware of any disadvantages in personal terms. The business practices are impeccable and the company's reputation is good. The financial situation is favorable. Turnover from 1933 to 1936 between 2 and 4 million." Just a few months later, in April 1938, the dissolution of the company is noted in the same register. The "Aryanization" of the company was carried out by Eugen Schanne. The company register states: "No sale agreement was concluded with the previous Jewish owners and no compensation was paid for any transfer of the business." Although there was no legal basis and no purchase agreement, the Gauwirtschaftskammer approved the robbery. Emil Strauss managed to flee to Brazil. Compensation proceedings were initiated after 1945.

The Darmstadt businessman Wilhelm (known as Willy) Wolff (1871-1933) acquired the property at Franziusstraße 13-15 at Frankfurt's Osthafen in 1911. Together with his younger brother Leopold R. Wolff (1875-1961), he founded Frankfurter Mühlenwerke in 1914. The owners were particularly proud of the pneumatic grain conveyor system for handling grain arriving in ships and railroad wagons. Only wheat was processed at Wolff'sche Mühle. Most of this came from North and South America. Later, a department for durum wheat semolina was also set up. At an unknown point in time, the brothers divided their responsibilities: Willy Wolff became director of Hafenmühle AG, also located on Franziusstrasse, while Leopold R. Wolff headed the mill works. The Wolff brothers also held shares in other mills, e.g. in Rathenow (Brandenburg), Berlin and Osthofen (Rheinhessen). Wilhelm Wolff was a member of the board of the Jewish community in Frankfurt and sat on its finance committee. He was instrumental in the planning and construction of the New Jewish Cemetery on Eckenheimer Landstrasse. Wilhelm Wolff died a few months after the National Socialists came to power. Leopold R. Wolff emigrated to the USA in 1935 or 1936. Also in 1935/36, Frankfurter Mühlenwerke was converted into a general partnership and sold to a Swiss banking group. Frankfurter Mühlenwerke was transferred to Kampffmeyer Mühlen GmbH in 1972 and is now part of GoodMills GmbH, based in Hamburg.