The address book of the city of Nürnberg from 1923 contains the following entry: Bing Glas- und Keramik-Kommanditgesellschaft, Fabrikation und Vertrieb von Glas,- Keramik und Steingutwaren, Dianastraße 104.

Carl (Charles) David, a native of Homburg/Saar, founded a leather goods store at 51 Wormser Strasse in 1824. Carl David was married to Franziska Gernsheim, who was born in Worms. The couple had thirteen children - August,1825 -1845,- Jakob Theodor,1826 - 1898, Cornelius,1828 - 1906,- Caroline,1829 -1909,- Adolf,1830 -1904,- Emilia, 1831 - 1837,- Julius,1833 - 1868,- Auguste,1834-1910,- Amalie,1836-1896,- Gustav,1837, - Rosalie,1841-1906,- Bertha,1845-1936 and Nathalie 1847-1924. From 1855 to 1872, Carl David headed the Jewish Community of Speyer.

In the book " Mitten in Nürnberg - Jüdische Firmen, Freiberufler und Institutionen am Vorabend des Nationalsozialismus " by Gerhard Jochem the following information can be found:  Büromöbel-Fabrik S. Gutmann, owner Hugo Gutmann, Vordere Sterngasse 3 - Salomon Gutmann founded a factory for Büromöbel in Nürnberg in 1878 . He was married to Emma Gutmann, née Lehmann.

The building was erected around 1898 on behalf of Benjamin Fanger (1860-1930) as a department store, business and residential building. After his death, his wife Fieda and later his daughter Selma Lotte and her husband Moritz Auerbach continued to run the Fanger department store. Later, the Hava, the house of many articles, managed by Max Brecher and Max Rosenbaum, was located here.

The photographer Genja Jonas was born Jenny Jonas on September 2, 1895 in Rogasen/Posen (now Rogozno). She grew up as the second child of the Jewish cigar merchant Simon Sigismund Jonas together with three siblings in Bromberg. She went to Berlin to train as a photographer and worked as a professional photographer from 1912. She then settled in Dresden, like her younger brother Kurt, where she opened her photo studio, called Portikus, at Bürgerwiese 6 in 1918. Genja Jonas quickly became a popular portrait photographer who soon gained a reputation far beyond Dresden, even in Europe.

Richard Steinhart was born in Merseburg on May 26, 1873. His wife Bertha, née Auerbach, was born on September 1, 1875 in the former German district of Tachau. Richard Steinhart was a merchant and successful owner of the Steinhart department store at Kesselsdorfer Straße 17 in Löbtau, which advertised as follows until 1933: „The efficient shopping center for household and kitchen appliances, leather goods, gift articles, toys, linoleum, men's articles, stockings, handicrafts and jerseys“. The couple had three children: Kurt, Werner and Emilie.

Walter Steinhart was born on September 5, 1880 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, his wife Rosa, née Steinhart, on June 17, 1885 in Tachau/Eger in western Böhmen, now Tachov in the Czech Republic. Rosa Steinhart was the sister of Ida Fränkel, née Steinhart.

The Steinhart department store was located on the corner of Kesselsdorfer Straße and Poststraße in the Löbtau district of Dresden.

About 1906, Richard Steinhart (*26.5.1873) opened a shop for fashion accessories, which later developed into a department store. It offered everything for the modern household. The catchy advertising slogan: "As hard as stone" tells you: "Your department store must be as hard as stone." The sons Kurt and Werner took over the flourishing business from their father.

The brothers Johannes and Friedrich Cruse founded the "Spezialfabrik elektrischer Steuerapparate Gebr. Cruse & Co.“ in 1914 and received the corresponding license with trade license no. 1551 dated 15 November 1914. From 1916, their company headquarters were located at Wachsbleichstrasse 26/28 in Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which they and their 80 employees initially had to share with Arnhold and Petzoldt (safe manufacturing) and later with Maschinenfabrik Kreiselrad and Blumenfabrik Oscar Alexander & Co.