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.
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Lörrach
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.
Apartment Hans and Helmut Teichner (nephews of Cilly and Adolf Hirsch)
The Teichner family consisted of the following people: Father: Leopold Teichner, merchant (1871-), mother: Marta née Lissmann (1870-), Hans (1908-1957) Helmut (1911-2001), Alice and Katharina (1906-). Marta Teichmann was a sister-in-law of Mrs. Hirsch (also née Lissmann) and the mother of the actress Lilli Palmer. This meant that the children Hans, Helmut, Alice and Katharina were cousins of this actress.
Raw tobacco wholesaler, cigarette and tobacco factory - Erich Seliksohn
The following entry can be found in the register of residents of Dresden and suburbs for the year 1922/23: Seliksohn Erich, Inh. e. Rohtabakgroßhandlung, Crausshaarstr.17.In the Saxony Archive, the following entry can be found in fonds 11045 Amtsgericht Dresden, 1362 - dating 1924 - 1937 - commercial register (volume 120; sheets 18809 - 18980) under no. 18908: " Tagmak " Cigaretten - und Tabakfabrik Erich Selikson.
Leopold Reichenberg
Text of the card: - Dear Leopold. - I received your lovely card and hope that you are doing well in Homburg, I am not going to the baths this year. Thank God my Clara is quite well. Greetings to you - your ...... Brother Salomon - Best regards from your sister Rosa. - Leopold Reichenberger was born in Ichenhausen in February 1846. His parents were Abraham Reichenberger, born around 1799 in Markt Berolzheim, and Jette Gerstle, born on April 8, 1809 in Ichenhausen.
Merchants - Mayer Dreyfuss Sons
In the address book (guide) for the royal Württemberg district capital and fortress of Ulm and the royal Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm from 1868, the following entry can be found: Dreyfuß Kosmann und Max, merchants, bei der obern Stube A199. The address book of the city of Ulm from 1894 contains the following entry: Stubengasse. From the Langestraße to the southern Münsterplatz. - 1. (A199) - Dreyfus, Kosman, merchant.1. i. Company: Mayer Dreifus Söhne. p.u.1. - Dreyfus, Max, merchant, p.u.2. - Dreyfus, Martin, authorized signatory 1.