Jacob Einstein

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The origin of Elektrotechnische Fabrik Jakob Einstein & Cie was the water and gas installation company founded in 1876 by Jakob Einstein in the same year he moved from Stuttgart to Munich. In 1879/1880, his brother Hermann Einstein (father of Albert Einstein) joined the company as a partner, and in the next five years turned it into Elektrotechnische Fabrik Jakob Einstein & Cie " a factory for electrical equipment, specializing in the generation of direct current and its use for the then new electric lighting of streets, taverns and beer tents.

Hanna Kapitalnik apartment

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Hanna Kapitalnik (*1910 in Łódź [dt.: Lodz or Lodsch]), the daughter of Abraham and Perel Kapitalnik, lived since spätestens 1929 in the Idastraße 27. In 1934 she was no longer listed in the residents' book of Greiz. Hanna was murdered in the Shoah.

Apartment of Abraham Kapitalnik (ca. 1921-ca. 1929)

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The raw products dealer Abraham Kapitalnik (*1881 in Łódź [dt.: Lodz or Lodsch]) lived since spätestens 1921 in the Weberstraße 10, where also his business "Kapitalnik & Co., Textilabfälle" was located. Between 1926 and 1929 he moved to Idastraße 27. With his wife Perel he had their daughter Hanna in 1910.