Publisher W. Vobach & Co.

The address Frankfurter Allee 40 is demonstrably associated with the publishing house W. Vobach & Co. The building was constructed around 1906 with the involvement of the Vobach family. In the context of Nazi persecution, the property was seized – and not clearly transferred back after 1945.

The procedure documented here proves that:
    •    The trustee administration no longer intervened, although there was a Nazi-related seizure.
       A judicial review or formal restitution to the original owners did not take place.
   •   The case is an example of the structural weaknesses of post-war restitution, in which Jewish property was often permanently alienated through mere „non-custody“