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.
Georg and Margarete Mecklenburg
The entrepreneur Georg Mecklenburg made a considerable fortune with a diamond black dyeing factory for coloring socks and yarns. The social advancement of him and his wife Margarethe can be seen in the status of their changing residences - from the apartment on the factory premises (which always remained) to a prestigious city villa. Together with Margarethe, Georg Mecklenburg built up an impressive collection of contemporary art over many years. This also benefited the "Kunsthütte Chemnitz", an association of local artists and art lovers founded in 1860.
Hermine Feist
Hermine Wollheim, the daughter of the Berlin coal baron Caesar Wollheim, grew up in wealthy circumstances with her two sisters. She amassed a collection of porcelain from various manufacturers, which soon became the most important of its kind in Europe and outside of museums. Together with her husband Otto Feist, she also collected works by Joshua Reynolds, one of the most important English painters of the 18th century. She also collected paintings by Jean-Baptiste Francois Pater, Reinhold Lepsius, Joseph Highmore, Franz Seraph Lenbach and pictures by Francisco de Goya.
Oils and greases in bulk - Max Hellmann
Max Hellmann was born in Burgkunstadt on November 24, 1889. His father had a shop for oils, greases and lubricants in Altenkunstadt and Max Hellmann supplied customers (farmers) in the surrounding area by bicycle. As a soldier in the First World War, he was seriously wounded in France in 1917. In 1919 he married Katinka Erlanger from Fischach
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Julius Silber
Text of the card - Dear Julius ! Show dear Irma these animals, if you know what they are called. We went to see the zoo here. Greetings, Dad - Greetings, dear mother - Julius Silber was born on February 24, 1902. His parents were August Silber, born on November 15, 1873 in Mainstockheim, and Ida Silber, née Kunreuther, born on February 13, 1876 in Straubing. She was the daughter of Moritz Moses Kunreuther from Büdingen and his wife Jeanette, née Feuchtwanger from Fürth.
Food wholesaler and agencies - Siegfried Hochfeld
The Münchner Adressbuch from 1923 contains the following entry: Hochfeld Siegfried, Lebensmittelgroßhandlung und Vertretungen, Franz-Joseph-Straße 27. - In the directory of Jewish tradesmen registered with the trade police in Munich - as of February 15, 1938, the following entries can be found: Hochfeld, Dr. Rolf, in company Siegfried Hochfeld, license exploitation of a patent, wholesale and sale of meat, vegetables, canned fruit and fish, jams, fruit jellies, Trautenwolfstra<e 7. - Hochfeld, Siegfried, in
Richard Lenel
The industrial magnate Richard Lenel was firmly anchored in Mannheim society and, like his father and grandfather, was president of the Mannheim Chamber of Commerce. Forced to emigrate during the Nazi era, he returned to his hometown in 1949 and was made an honorary citizen.
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Parents: Victor Lenel (1838-1917), Sara Helene Michaelis (1844-1917)
2 siblings: Walter (1868-1937), Klara (1872-1932)
Wife: Emilia (Milly) Maas (Berlin 1880 - Mannheim 1959), marriage 1900
Eduard and Johanna Arnhold
Raised in Dessau as the son of a doctor for the poor and an active representative of the emerging Reform Judaism, Eduard Arnhold was apprenticed at the age of 14 to Caesar Wollheim, another Jewish coal merchant in Berlin. Arnhold was granted power of attorney at the age of 21. Eduard Arnhold developed the company he took over into one of the leading energy suppliers in the German Empire and promoted new transportation routes and the airship travel of Count Zeppelin.
Helene Hecht
Helene Hecht was a salonnière and patron of the arts who maintained close contacts with musicians and visual artists. Johannes Brahms and Franz von Lenbach frequented her house in Mannheim. She had to sell parts of her art collection during the Nazi era due to persecution and take out a mortgage on her villa. Like most Jews from Baden, she was sent to the concentration camp in Gurs, France. After her arrest on October 22, 1940, Helene Hecht died during her deportation there.
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