The company Steinberg & Meinrath is mentioned on the honorary plaque of 1913 for the then new synagogue at the Steeler Tor.

Iwan Meinrath (*1881 in Hannover) was co-owner of the linen factory Steinberg and Meinrath, which was expropriated in 1938. Iwan survived the Nazi period in illegality and died in 1966.

Co-owner Hermann Steinberg died in 1937 at the age of 59.

Among the Schutzjuden recorded in Mecklenburg to Röbel finds in the year 1832  following entry -  " Salomon Samson - open shopkeeper ".

The hexagram is known since ancient times as a - not originally Jewish - symbol for the defense of Bösem. The legendary King David is said to have carried it on his shield, and so explains the common name "Star of David" or actually "Shield of David" (Hebrew Magen David).

Dr. phil. Max Martin Sigmund Heinemann was born in Berlin as the son of the teacher Adolf Heinemann and his wife Martha, née Bamberger. Orphaned at an early age, he was financially supported by relatives on his mother's side, owners of the Tannenbaum, Pariser & Co. Luckenwalde cloth factory, to attend school and university. He had been married since April 1917 to Mathilde Hermeter (2.7.1878 Rosenheim - 4.12.1943 Leipzig). She and her daughter Anna Veronika (1896-1942) converted to the Jewish faith in February 1917. Anna Veronika married Dr. phil. Max Hofmann (1886-1966) on Nov.