Haberdashery - L. & M. Fuld
The address book of the city of Darmstadt from 1899 contains the following entry: Fuld L. & M., Kurzwaarenhandlung, Inh. Abraham, gen. Adolf Ketsch and Leontine, née Fuld, Ludwigstraße 2. In the address book from 1910 - Fuld L. & M., haberdashery, Inh. Abraham, gen. Adolf Ketsch and Leontine, née Fuld, Kirchstraß 12.
Jewish cemetery
Opladen Jewish Cemetery
The small cemetery site on Robert-Blum-Strasse in Opladen now only has around 20 gravestones, some of which show clear signs of weathering (destruction).As early as 1968, the city of Leverkusen had a memorial stone erected on the site bearing the following words:
In memory of the Jewish citizens of our city,
who lost their lives during the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945.
City walk: The Lost Street
From the last third of the 19th century, Grenadierstraße (now Almstadtstraße), located in the "Scheunenviertel", became a port of call, stopover and center of life for Eastern European Jewish (refugee) migration. Jews who had fled the pogroms in the Tsarist Empire or after the First World War lived here, either temporarily or permanently. During the Weimar Republic, Grenadierstrasse developed into a lively center of Eastern European Jewish life, while at the same time it became the target of anti-Semitic violence before and even more so after 1933.
Ironmonger - Rudolf Schloßberger
On April 4, 1860, Rudolf Schlossberger was born in Hollenbach near Bad Mergentheim, where he attended secondary school in Heilbronn at the age of 12, followed by a three-year apprenticeship in Bad Mergentheim in the manufacturing business of A. Sussmann and then worked in Wertheim. At the age of 21 he was traveling from Berlin as a representative of the ladies' clothing company J.M.Meyer. From 1882 to 1888 Rudolf Schlossberger then worked in the iron business of his brother Max Schlossberger in Bad Mergentheim.
Erna Wilhelmine Mittereder
Erna Wilhelmine Mittereder was the daughter of the lawyer Franz Mittereder and his wife Rosa Mittereder, née Loewi. Franz Mittereder was Catholic and was born in Munich on May 8, 1885. Rosa Mittereder was of Jewish faith, came from Adelsdorf near Forchheim and was born there on March 25, 1891. The couple married on July 16, 1923 in Munich. The marriage was considered a mixed marriage. Erna Wilhelmine Mittereder was born in Munich on April 20, 1925. Her father Franz Mittereder died just one year after her birth on April 9, 1926.
Rosa Mittereder
Born in Munich on May 8, 1885, Franz Mittereder, a lawyer by profession, married Rosa Loewi, born on March 25, 1891 in Adelsdorf near Forchheim, on July 16, 1923 in Munich. As Franz Mittereder was Catholic, the couple's marriage was considered a mixed marriage. On April 20, 1925, their daughter Erna Wilhelmine was born in Munich. Franz Mittereder died just under a year later on April 9, 1926 in Munich. Rosa and Erna Wilhelmine Mittereder were left behind.
Albert Flegenheimer
The Stuttgart address book from 1920 contains the following entries for Albert Flegenheimer and the address Friedrichstr.18: Flegenheimer Alfred, merchant, Friedrichstr.18/1 - Flegenheimer Eugen, Dr.jur, lawyer, Friedrichstr.18/1, Büro Friedrichstr.13/2 - Flegenheimer Joseph, merchant, Hofl, Am Bismarkturm 57, Getreideagentur Friedrichstr.18 Eg - Albert Flegenheimer was born on July 4, 1890 in Schwäbisch Hall. His parents were Samuel Flegenheimer, born on August 21, 1848 in Tairnbach and Lisette Rothschild, born in 1861.
Albert Harburger
Albert Harburger was born in 1871. On April 4, 1922, he married Johanna Rosenthal, born on January 15, 1887 in Beerfelden in the Odenwald in Stuttgart. The couple had a son - Kurt Siegfried, born in 1923. Albert Harburger was a freelance salesman for the company Ludwig Povel & Co in Nordhorn. He lost his job as early as 1935 due to his Jewish ancestry. Since their marriage, the family lived in Stuttgart at Halpertstrasse 105 for rent. In 1936, Albert Harburger purchased a plot of land opposite the apartment at Falkertstra<e 88 and built a two-storey house on it.
White, wool and hosiery, shirt and apron factory - Merzbacher & Schulhöfer
Maier Merzbacher (Dec.1862-12.1.1942) and Anton Schulhöfer were co-owners of the white, wool and hosiery, shirt and apron factory " Merzbacher & Schulhöfer ". Anton Schulhöfer was born in Buttenheim on February 12, 1869. In 1893 he moved from Buttenheim to Nuremberg. On November 9, 1899, Anton Schulhuber married Selma Baum from Nuremberg. The couple had two children - Edith, born on December 24, 1900 in Nuremberg and Franz Ludwig, born on September 27, 1905. Anton Schulhüml;fer died on February 3, 1935.