Fashion house - Gebrüder Robinsohn

The address book of the city of Frankfurt am Main 1905 contains the following entries: Gebr. Robinsohn,Damenhüte,Seidenstoffe,Konfektion &.,Bleidenstr.3. 5. E. (Tel. 1326). Pers.haft.Ges. Rob. Rud.u.Mart.Robinsohn.- Robinsohn Martin,merchant,Wolfgangstr 126 E.(Tel.4164). Robinsohn Bros. - Robinsohn Rob. Rud.,merchant, Arndtstr. 46 E.(T.2490). s. Robinsohn Bros.-1886 the brothers Robert and Jakob Robinsohn founded a fashion house at Zeil 67-69. the progenitor of the Robinsohn family was the merchant Ruben Wolff from Neustadt an der Warthe, father of seven children, 3 sons and 4 daughters. the youngest son of Ruben Wolff, Hermann Robinsohn (1817-1879), worked as a teacher and a salesman in Borek. He was the father of 12 children. Three of them died in childhood, three sons moved to Frankfurt a. M., one daughter married there, Max and Leo Robinsohn moved to Hamburg.1892 Leo Robinsohn opened a shop for cleaning and fashion goods in Hamburg, to which Max Robinsohn soon joined as a partner.The store at Bleichenbrücke 10 moved to Neuer Wall 31-33 in 1901 and became the largest and probably also the most beautiful fashion store in Hamburg.The Robinsohn brothers also had a new multi-storey store built in neo-baroque style in Frankfurt in 1905.Adjacent to this, they had the multi-storey office and commercial building Zeilpalast built in 1909 on the corner plot at Zeil 123 - Liebfrauenstraße by architect Josef  Rinsfüßer.Thanks to the purchase of the Nassauische Landesbank in 1927, the two houses escaped the later Aryanization of the Nazi regime. Nevertheless, Auguste Robinsohn, the wife of Leon Robinsohn, who was over 70 years old, was robbed of her assets during this time and murdered in the Treblinka concentration camp in 1942.

After the destruction of the business premises in Hamburg on the Night of Broken Glass, the company was arsed and forced to sell.