Manufactured goods store - Textile house - S. Frank Nachf. - Daniel Oppenheim

The company " Gebr. Goldschmidt "  (the owners Salomon and Josef Goldschmidt imported domestic and foreign textiles from factory production and exported domestic canvas on a large scale)  was divided in 1841. In 1851 Samuel Frank took over the trading business of Salomon Goldschmidt. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Frank brothers' textile company employed numerous homeworkers in Rahden. This later became the textile company " Daniel Oppenheim & Sohn " on Rahdener Kirchplatz. - Daniel Oppenheim and his wife were very active in the Jewish community. In 1893, the merchant Daniel Oppenheim was the first head of the community. In 1932, the municipal council still consisted of the three-member body prescribed by the statutes of 1857, with Daniel Oppenheim serving as 1st headman alongside Rudolf Vogel as 2nd headman and Moritz Ginsberg as 3rd headman of the Jewish community. Daniel Oppenheim (died 1935) was head of the congregation for a total of 45 years and for many years was an honorary prayer leader and Torah reader for the congregation and was a member of the committee of the Association of Synagogue Communities in Westphalia. In 1911 and 1913 he was also chairman of the Chewra Kaddischa in Rahden. Daniel Oppenheim's wife was the chairwoman of the Jewish Women's Association, which had existed since 1910, from 1910 to 1930. Daniel Oppenheim was chairman of the trade bank and a member of the local council. Five stumbling blocks at Lange Strasse 4 in Rahden, laid on June 12, 2024, now commemorate the fate of the Oppenheim family. - Eight Rahden Jewish men from the Frank, Haas, Vogel, Meyer and Oppenheim families took part in the First World War; Hermann Vogel received several decorations. The names of two jüd. The names of two young soldiers who fell in 1914 and 1915 (Erwin Meyer and Hermann Oppenheim) were initially part of the corresponding plaque on the war memorial; however, they were removed during the Third Reich and only added again in 1976.