City walk Rudolstadt
Rudolstadt, former Schwarzburg princely residence and today a small Thuringian town, houses an interesting Judaica collection from the 17th and 18th centuries at Heidecksburg Castle. A small Jewish community with only a few families settled below the castle during this period, whose members were able to operate quite freely as merchants on the basis of a princely trade concession and were recognized as an equal religious community by Prince Ludwig Friedrich II of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1796.
Butcher store of the Friedmann family
In September 1892, Hermann Friedmann and his wife Clara opened a store for butcher's supplies in Jena's Grietgasse with an associated wholesale gut and fur business. Subsequently, the family business developed into a successful company that was also active internationally. The Friedmanns were strongly involved in the "Israelite Religious Community" of Jena. The premises of their store also functioned as a place of Jewish life.
Moses Simson and family
Moses Simson was born in Schwarza in 1808 and lived there until he moved to Suhl in 1848. However, he was already known as a businessman before his arrival in Suhl - both his father and grandfather must have been role models for him in his commercial activities. Moses Simson was the offspring of Simson Lippmann's first marriage to Mindel, the daughter of Meyer Löb from Heinrichs. His father concentrated on the trading area in Henneberg in Electoral Saxony and left Moses and his four siblings a fortune of 11,939 riksdaler at his death in 1812.
Adolph Behrendt and family
Adolph Behrendt was one of the first Jewish tradesmen to settle in Jena in the 1880s. He was married to Rosa Behrendt, and together they had seven children. In 1886 at the latest, they moved to Jena, where Adolph applied for a business license. In 1889/90, he purchased the house at Markt 17, which he successfully operated as Kaufhaus Behrendt until his death in 1913.
Hermann and Arthur Friedmann
Hermann Friedmann (1870-1940) came from a butcher's family from the Harz Mountains and, after completing his training, moved to Jena, where in 1892 he opened his own butcher's store with an attached fur and gut shop, which he ran from 1915 together with his son Arthur (1894-1978). The business did well both at home and abroad and allowed the family to rise into the wealthy middle class and own a large villa in Jena West. Hermann Friedmann used his wealth to become socially and religiously involved.
Jewish cemetery Hebenshausen
The Jewish cemetery of Hebenshausen is located two kilometers north of the village on a small hill at the edge of a grove. It can be reached via a tarred field path on the edge of the village or via a small access road on the B27 in the direction of Göttingen just before the "Marzhausen" exit. The cemetery was established at the beginning of the 18th century to provide the growing Jewish community with a local burial place. Before that, burials took place at the Jewish cemetery in Witzenhausen.
City walk on the economic history of the Callmann family in Weimar
Weimar, a medium-sized town in the heart of Thuringia, became the main residence of businessman August Callmann in the 1920s. His arrival was to lay the foundation for a family success story that would last for almost 80 years. The Callmanns shaped Weimar finance like hardly any other family and enjoyed high esteem among the population. Nevertheless, August Callmann in particular struggled for a long time for an equal position within the city and increasingly met with rejection with his application for citizenship of the city of Weimar.
Textile store - Max Kocherthaler
Max Kocherthaler came from Ernsbach.He had already come to Öhringen before the turn of the century, because already in 1895 he was a member of the Männerturnverein of Öhringen. Max Kocherthaler was married twice. His first wife died in 1899 and his second wife Jakobine, née Schulherr, died in 1919. 5 children were born of the two marriages. At the age of 70 Max Kocherthaler moved to Strasbourg in August 1933. In 1937 he sold his house at Untere Torstraße 11 to Friedrich Kircher, a shoemaker from Öhring, who set up his shoe shop there.