Cigarette and tobacco factory 'Monopol' B. L. Hurwitz

The businessman Bernhard Lippmann Hurwitz registered a cigarette and tobacco factory at Zirkusstraße 7/0 with the Dresden Trade Office on May 9, 1895. After various business relocations within the city of Dresden, cigarette production began at the end of September 1902 at Blasewitzer Strasse 68 (rear building)

On October 3, 1934, the Jewish owners of the factory, Benno Hurwitz and Dr. Emil Hurwitz, were deported by the NS states. Emil Hurwitz, were expropriated by the Nazi state.

In February 1945, the Blasewitzer Strasse factory building was completely destroyed during a bombing raid on Dresden.