Regional produce store with wine commission - Hermann Levy

The roots of the " Weinkelterei - Weinkommision Hermann Levy, Landau " go back to the year 1891 - as can be read on a letter - invoice header of a list extract of the Weinkelterei - Weinkommoision from 1937. Hermann Levy's company had been operating a flour and country products business with a wine commission since 1901 and added the trade in wine in 1909. The Hermann Levy company were the brothers Hermann and Heinrich Levy, who started out very small in the wine trade. Wine tastings in the surrounding area and visits to customers - wine sales - were initially carried out by bicycle. Through diligence and entrepreneurial skill, better years soon followed. The stock market crash of 1929 and increasing anti-Semitism caused the company more and more problems at the end of the 1920s. Even the change of the company name from Levy to Lehr could not change this. The founders decided to sell the business. When Heinrich Levy died of cancer in 1938, the business was dissolved and the property was sold at a great loss to a local fruit and vegetable merchant and later to a businessman.