Banking business - Gebrüder Gunzenhäuser
The Gebrüder Gunzenhäuser bank must have already existed before 1900. A picture postcard from 1898 (identical to the card shown - only used 6 years earlier), currently on display in the exhibition "Traces of Jewish Life in Feuchtwangen" in the Feuchtwangen Museum, bears witness to this. In the Münchner Gedenkbuch in the biography of " Selma Sophie (Sophie Selma ) Rosenthal, née Gunzenhäuser " the following information can be found about her father " Jakob Gunzenhäuser " - banker and chairman of the Jewish community in Feuchtwangen.
Manufacturing and banking business - Hirsch Holzinger
Hirsch Holzinger was born on December 13, 1827 in Feuchtwangen. His parents were Gabriel Meyer and Reizle Holzinger. Hirsch Holzinger was married to Fanny Oettinger, born on December 14, 1838, daughter of Marx Oettinger from Thalmässing and Therese (Doelzla) Oettinger, née Wolf from Sulzburg.
Anna Caspari
Anna Caspari was a German art dealer. As a Jew, she suffered under the repression of the Nazi regime and was forced to close her gallery in Munich in 1939. Her attempts to emigrate failed.
On November 20, 1941, Anna Caspari was deported from Munich to Wehrmacht-occupied Lithuania and murdered in Kaunas.
Lichtburg Essen
Gustav Heidenheim
Gustav Heidenheim was born on October 17, 1850 in Sondershausen. His parents were the Bleicherode-born rabbi and grammar school professor Prof. Dr. Philipp Heidenheim and Carlina Lina Heidenheim, née Leser, daughter of the court agent and former community leader David Leser in Sondershausen. Gustav Heidenheim was married to Rosalie Ernstine Oppenheim, born on July 13, 1863 in Köln, daughter of Isaac Oppenheim and Berta Oppenheim, née Mayer.
Alfred Flechtheim
Alfred Flechtheim grew up in Münster in Westphalia, where his father ran a successful grain wholesale business. Due to difficulties at school, he was sent to a Swiss boarding school. At the turn of the century, he joined his parents' business and worked in the grain trade in Odessa, London and Paris. In the French capital, he became acquainted with international art dealers and the elite of European painting in the "Café du Dôme".
Levy family Home and textile store
Adolph Moritz List
Adolph Moritz List, born in the Russian oblast of Voronezh as the son of a German-Jewish sugar manufacturer, grew up in Leipzig. After finishing school and training in agriculture, he studied agricultural sciences and chemistry at the university there. He obtained his doctorate and ran the world's first saccharin factory in Magdeburg together with the Russian chemist Constantin Fahlberg (1850 - 1910). Having become wealthy, Adolph Moritz List began to build up a collection of European decorative arts from the 13th to the 18th century.