Egg wholesaler Karl Ellenberg

Kalman Hirsch Ellenberg was born on June 18, 1882 in Galicia. He entered the egg trade and on April 3, 1907, together with Chaim Kesten, founded the company Ellenberg und Kesten, a „wholesale egg business“. From 1909, he also traded in butter with his new partner Ludwig Haueisen. In 1920, the egg traders in the south-west merged to form „Vereinigte Eierimporteure Württemberg GmbH“, whose managing director Ellenberg, who had changed his first name to Karl in the meantime, became. His own company remained in existence and was one of the most important egg import companies in Württemberg. 

In December 1933, the National Socialists passed the „Law on the Trade in Eggs“, which in future only permitted the import of eggs from abroad under the strict supervision of the Reichsstelle für Eierß. The founding of the „Main Association of the German Egg Industry“ in November 1935 then meant the end of the Jewish egg trade. From then on, foreign goods were no longer allocated to egg wholesalers in the form of import quotas, but were largely imported by the Reichsstelle itself and sold on to the trade via the Hauptvereinigung der deutschen Eierwirtschaft Berlin, and only to the non-Jewish trade.On December 13, 1935, there were no more Jewish egg traders in Stuttgart.

Karl Ellenberg was systematically plundered as a result. He lost his assets and eventually also his representative house in Hasenbergsteige. His family managed to flee to Palestine, where he died impoverished on September 25, 1966.