Institute for Sexology

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In the years 1871/2 the "Villa Joachim" is built for the Jewish violinist, composer, conductor and music professor Joseph Georg Maria Joachim (1831-1907) and his family at the address Beethovenstraße 3/In den Zelten 10, north of the Berlin Tiergarten. 

Nearly ten years later, the adjacent building with the house number In den Zelten 9a was built in 1880.

Klara Caro

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Klara Caro (née Beermann) was born in Berlin on January 6, 1886. Her older brother Max cared for her education and shaped her liberal, Zionist views. In 1909, she married Dr. Isidor Caro, a rabbi and preacher, and moved with him to Cologne. As a social worker, she provided pastoral care for Jewish inmates at Klingelpütz and patients at the psychiatric ward of Lindenburg Hospital.

Agrippina House

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The Agrippinahaus was one of the most important commercial and office buildings of its time and, in addition to stores and the Agrippina-Lichtspiele, also housed important political organizations of Jews in the German Reich. Among others, the "Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens" (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) and the "Zionistische Vereinigung" (Zionist Association), which represented different positions and had a conflictual relationship with each other, moved into the building.