Malt manufacturer - Hermann Eisenberg

The address book of the city of Erfurt from 1909 contains the following entries: Eisenberg Hermann, merchant and malt manufacturer, Schillerstr. 7 - Company: J. Eisenberg, malt factory in Jlversgegehofen (factory and office), Jlversgehofen, railroad station and Schillerstr. 7 - Eisenberg Julius, merchant and malt factory, Schillerstr.44/1./J. Eisenberg,Jlversgehofen,Bahnhof u, Schillerstr.44/1. - Herrmann Eisenberg was born on May 17, 1852 in Hofgeismar.his parents were Isaak Eisenberg,born on May 15, 1809 in Hofgeismar and Friederike,née Kaiser,born on August 23, 1822.Isaak Eisenberg was a butcher and owner of a steam malting business. The couple had eight children - including Hermann.Hermann Eisenberg married Jenny Ullmann, born on June 17, 1859 in Würzburg. Herrmann and Jenny Eisenberg had two daughters - Gertrud Josephine Eisenberg, born on December 11, 1884 in Hofgeismar and Martha Eisenberg, born in 1888.Hermann Eisenberg took over his father's steam mill.1885 In 1885, the family moved from Hofgeismar to Erfurt, where Hermann Eisenberg founded another malt factory. Hermann Eisenberg died in 1917, and with the takeover by the Etgersleben malt factory in 1917/1918, the company was renamed "Malzfabriken J. Eisenberg & Etgersleben AG " In the 1920s, the Eisenberg malt factories were handed over to the business partners.The seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 and the negative changes in living conditions for the Jewish population left the widow no choice - on May 22, 1939, Jenny Eisenberg moved to Kassel and from there to a Jewish retirement home in Frankfurt am Main. On August 18, 1942 she was deported from Frankfurt to Theresienstadt and on September 23, 1942 to Treblinka, where Jenny Eisenberg was murdered shortly after her arrival. The grandson Heinz Erich Tuchmann was shot on March 23, 1944 in a retaliatory action by the SS in the Ardeatine hills near Rome. A stumbling block in Hofgeismar at Petristr. 5 commemorates their fate.