The roots of the Leipzig banking house H. C. Plaut lie in Nordhausen in 1815, when Herz Cusel Plaut founded the company H. C. Plaut. In the Nordhausen directory from 1834, the company is listed as a money exchange business. When Herz Cusel Plaut died in 1835, his wife Caroline, née Blach, continued the business. Gustav Plaut began an apprenticeship in the parental bank at the age of 14. Jakob Plaut (1817-1902) returned to his hometown Nordhausen after his apprenticeship at Bankhaus Becker & Co.

Card text - Berlin - July 25. - Dear Ludwig. You know that I have been trying for some time to obtain a 500-pound settler site. Today I am told that these posts will be distributed directly in Erez, because only 35 in total are earmarked for this schedule and it is not specified how much of these 35 each individual country will receive. The Pal Amt Berlin has sent a settler proposal list to Erez on which I am also listed. The decision will be made in Erez very soon, because the certificates are to be selected in this schedule. Dr.

Detmar Schwarz was born in Greiz in 1851 as the son of the Greiz merchant Samuel Schwarz and his wife Elisabeth. In 1876, he founded the company Samuel Schwarz Söhne, Mechanische Weberei together with his brother Max Schwarz. Detmar Schwarz lived in Papiermühlenweg 90 from 1885 at the latest until at least 1892 and then for a short time in Papiermühlenweg 5. In 1894 he resigned from the company to leave Greiz.

In Gartenweg 2 lived since spätestens 1910 Paul Heller with his wife Edwig (née Levi) and their children Emilie (1896) and Hans (1898). Paul Heller was born in 1866 as the son of Moritz and Emilie Heller (née Schwarz, *1838). His mother died in the same year of his birth. In 1895 Paul Heller lived with his father at Bahnhofstra;e 9, in 1898 at Heinrichstra;e 2, from about 1901 to 1905 at Elsterstra;e 30 and in 1908 at Gartenweg 5. After Paul Heller's uncle Max Schwarz died in 1922, Paul Heller and five relatives became owners of the company Samuel Schwarz Sohn.

Jette Cahn, the daughter of the merchant and cord merchant Gustav Cahn and his wife Mina, née Bayer, born in Bayreuth in 1874, had four more siblings - Ludwig (1873), Ernst (1875), Heinrich (1878) and Rosa (1883). Jette Cahn remained single throughout her life. She lived in the house owned by her brother at Richard-Wagner-Strasse 7, where Heinrich Cahn ran a wholesale and retail business in haberdashery, white goods and manufactured goods. Jette Cahn lived on the 1st floor above the business premises. Above her on the 2nd floor was her brother Heinrich.

The Jewish businessman Samuel Schwarz (*26 March 1810) lived with his wife Elisabeth (née Bloch, *1818) since 1873 at the latest in Marienstraße 24 in Greiz and had with her eight children (Laura, Lina, Rosa, Hulda, Agnes, Emilie, Detmar, Max). In 1840 the former wool merchant settled in Greiz together with Ephraim Schulhof and was incorporated in the same year. In 1850 he was accepted into the religious community of Lomnička (Czech Republic).

In 1892, the Villa Samuel Schwarz was built in the Zeulenrodaer Stra;e 8, right next to the company premises of „Samuel Schwarz Söhne, Mechanische Weberei“. The builder was the Jewish merchant Samuel Schwarz, who had settled in Greiz in 1840 and founded a family here.