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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Glove and stocking factory - Heidenheim,Oppenheim & Co.
The roots of the glove and stocking factory Heidenheim, Oppenheim & Co. go back to the year 1879 when Gustav Heidenheim founded the fabric glove factory in Chemnitz on July 1, 1879. After the rented premises at Neustädter Markt became too small, the decision was made to build a new factory on the company's own property at Beckerstra<e 13. With its completion, the business area was also expanded with the addition of hosiery. In 1886, the brother-in-law Hugo Oppenheim joined the company. In 1898, health reasons caused Gustav Heidenheim to resign from his position.
Clara Sigmann-Seidel
Clara Kahn was born in Kuppenheim in Baden. She and her husband Salomon Sigmann ran a lingerie and bridal outfitting business in Pforzheim.
Her husband died in 1933 and the business was liquidated a year later. Clara Sigmann moved to Mannheim with her daughter and granddaughter.
Ludwig Horwitz
Ludwig Horwitz came from a family of merchants in Nuremberg. He had at least one brother - Arthur, born in 1887, who was married to Alice Blumenstiel from Frankenthal and lived in Nürnberg. The Nürnberg residents' registration card Ludwig Horwitz notes the following about the unmarried specialist for stomach and intestinal diseases Dr. Ludwig Horwitz, born in 1877: „07.04.1931: Suicide by drowning“. - In the complete index of German literature 1700 - 1900 Volume 64 - Holt-Hor the following entry can be found: Horwitz Ludwig, approb. Arzt aus Nürnberg: Aus d. pharmakol.
Ernst Polaczek
Ernst Polaczek was an Austrian art historian. Coming from a Jewish family of factory owners in Bohemia, his love was for the former German city of Strasbourg, where he was a university professor and museum director. After the First World War, he had to leave the city, which had then become French, and only returned to the Alsace region in 1933 from Görlitz, where he had become unemployed due to his Jewish origins. He lived with his second wife in Freiburg, where he had to sell part of his art collection.
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Sally Falk
Sally (Salomon, also Saly, later Henri) Falk was born in Heilbronn on March 22, 1888. The family moved to Mannheim in 1899, founded a company to recycle cotton waste and took part in the economic upswing of the industrial city. Sally Falk used the considerable fortune he had acquired up until the First World War to purchase works of art and support artists, primarily the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck. In 1921, he laid the foundation for the sculpture collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim with a donation.
Merchant - Ludwig Cohen
The address book of the city of Munich from 1875 contains the following entry: Cohen Ludwig, merchant, Weinstraße 14 - Ludwig Cohen was born on September 1 in Wallerstein. His parents were Aron Benjamin Cohen, born on January 13, 1797 in Wallerstein, and Therese Bauer, born on September 13, 1802 in Hainsfarth. The family tree of the Cohen family goes back to Lublin in 1610 to Rabbi Nachman Hacohen Lifshitz Rappaport. Ludwig was the second-born and had 8 siblings. On August 20, 1851, Ludwig Cohen married Klara Pflaum, who was born in Pflaumloch on November 8, 1831.