The trading company Knauth, Nachod & Kühne was founded in 1852.  The co-owners of the company included the merchants Franz Theodor Knauth, Jacob Nachod and Friedrich Kühne. The company was originally active in cloth and commission sales. It had a lively import and export business with sales partners in the USA. It later focused on trading and banking business. -Jacob Nachod was born in Dresden on March 22, 1814.

The publishing house W. Vobach & Co. published not only art portfolios but also works on education, music education and upbringing. This corresponded to the reform ideas of the time - a spirit that was supported by many Jewish publishers, schools, theaters and newspapers in Friedrichstrasse.

This creative class was not defined by blood, but by education, language and hard work - the very milieu in which Willi Vobach was honored.
 

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The address Frankfurter Allee 40 is demonstrably associated with the publishing house W. Vobach & Co. The building was constructed around 1906 with the involvement of the Vobach family. In the context of Nazi persecution, the property was seized – and not clearly transferred back after 1945.

Sara Horwitz, née Meyer, was the third wife of the wealthy cattle dealer Gustav Horwitz (1861 - 1932).

Sara Horwitz was deported from Hamburg to the Theresienstadt/Terezin ghetto on 5 May 1943 on transport VI/6.

Julius Isaak Halle was born on December 18, 1864 in Schnaitach. His parents were David Halle, a teacher in Munich, and Jette Halle, née Rosenthal. Julius Halle had three siblings -  Karolina (Lina, married) Kronheimer, born on February 1, 1867 in Schnaittach, widowed, died on March 18, 1939 in Munich.

Nobert Rosenfeld was born in Munich on August 26, 1879. His parents were the Munich merchant Salomon Sigmund Rosenfeld and Karoline Rosenfeld, née Kaufmann. After attending secondary school in Munich, Norbert Rosenfeld spent about two years in France and two years working in the USA. With the rank of non-commissioned officer, he fought for Germany in the First World War. On July 25, 1911, Norbert Rosenfeld married Katharina Moller, born on July 15, 1889 in Hadersleben, district of Schleswig, in Oberhaching.

Willy Vobach and the legacy of a European publishing dynasty Willy Vobach came from a traditional Jewish publishing family whose roots can be traced back to the early 19th century: his grandfather, Karl August Vobach, was a publisher in Potsdam, while his father Gustav Rudolf August Robert Vobach ran the publishing house in Leipzig. From the middle of the 19th century at the latest, the family was not only active in Potsdam and Leipzig, but also in Berlin, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.

The old cemetery was laid out around 1815 and occupied until 1888. No gravestones have been preserved today. The cemetery was closed in November 1938, expropriated, sold, leveled and used as garden land.