In 1890, Julius Lewin's father founded his first cigarette and tobacco factory in Gollub, which he joined and later took over. After his participation in the First World War, he moved it to Dresden on Freiberg Street in 1919. The background to this was the better economic prospects, but also the fact that it was foreseeable that Gollub would fall to Poland under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.From 1922, Lewin called the company Oriental Tobacco and Cigarette Factory „Yramos“ Julius Lewin, his son Hermann Lewin became co-owner.

Immediately after the National Socialist seizure of power and the centrally organized boycott against Jewish retailers and traders, doctors' surgeries and law firms in Dresden on 1 April 1933, the Jewish Lande family decided to sell the company, which was highly modern at the time, and emigrate: Wilhelm Lande and his wife gave in to pressure from the Nazi regime and emigrated to the USA in the spring of 1933, daughter Cäcilie sold the W.

The postcard was sent by Karl Lauinger to his brother-in-law Albert Mayer (husband of his sister Emma) in Mainz. - Karl  Lauinger was born on August 12, 1889 in Nürnberg. His parents were Julius Lauinger, born on March 3, 1852 in Binswangen and Johanna Jeanne Lauinger, née Worms, born on April 2, 1862 in Strasbourg. Karl Lauinger was married to Hildegard Sofie Lauinger, née Landshoff, born on January 15, 1895 in Berlin. The couple had three children - Hanna, born on January 25, 1923, Thomas Julius, born on March 7, 1925 and Andreas Hans, born on July 30, 1927.