Siegfried Wolff - Manufacture and fashion goods
In October 1922, Siegfried Wolff opened his manufacturing and fashion store at Zöllnerstraße 44. The business was completely destroyed and ransacked during the Pogrom Night. Fabrics left in front of the house were set on fire by the perpetrators. Wolff, who had been the first head of the Jewish community since December 1933, was sent to Oranienburg concentration camp. During his imprisonment, his wife Käthe sold the property and land under Nazi coercion. The business was closed on November 20, 1938.
Dr. Richard Katzenstein - President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court of Celle
Dr. Richard Katzenstein (1878-1942) had been president of the senate (equivalent to a present-day chairman of the senate) at the Higher Regional Court of Celle since 1929. In 1933, the then president of the Higher Regional Court pleaded with the Prussian Ministry of Justice for his removal, or alternatively his transfer to a district court as a simple judge, because the people of Celle could not stand a Jewish chairman of the senate. Katzenstein was then initially transferred to the Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg district court.
Löwenstein - Salamander shoe store
Jacob Löwenstein was born on October 7, 1873 in Haaren/Ems. In 1904, he married Lilli Behr, the daughter of Celle merchant Aaron Behr. In 1910, Löwenstein took over a shop for outerwear and shoes from him at Zöllnerstra<e 5, which from 1933 was the sole agent for Salamander shoes in Celle. Lilli and Jacob Löwenstein had two children: Erich (born 1909) and Hilde (born 1911). Hilde died at the age of 15. Erich, a trained businessman, joined the company as a partner in 1936.
Julius Wexseler - Textile store and mail order company
Julius Wexseler (born 1871 in Bersenbrück) came to Celle in 1899 after completing a commercial apprenticeship. Wexseler was Jewish, his wife Anna (born 1882 in Clenze), née Pevesdorf, belonged to the Lutheran Church, but converted before the wedding. They had two children, Alexander (born 1906) and Rosa (born 1909). In 1904, Wexseler set up his own business at Zöllnerstra<e 35 with a mail order business for textiles. His first store was opened at Rundenstra<e 14 in April 1905. In 1910, he rented the store in the modern building at Hehlentorstra<e 14.
Mendel Schul - Trade in textiles, shoes and used materials
Mendel Schul was born on July 15, 1888 in the Lower Silesian town of Glogau (Polish: Glogów). The town belonged to the German Empire at the time, but Schul was probably of Polish descent. He was married to Berta Felder, who was born on July 14, 1900 in the Austrian-Hungarian town of Sanok. Both were of Jewish faith. They had two children: Adolf Pinkus (born 1924) and Regine (born 1926). Schul ran a trade in textiles, shoes and used materials at Wallstraße 54 (today Nordwall).
'Landlady' Jenny Schlüsselburg
Jenny Schlüsselburg, née Neiovetz, born on December 1, 1881 in Marmaros-Sziget, Hungary, owned the house Hinter den Höfen 4, where she and her non-Jewish husband Heinrich lived and ran a brothel. On November 15, 1938, they were banned from renting out any rooms to women, with the justification: "With regard to your Jewish descent, your business represents a danger to public safety and order."
Bone dealer Henry Salomon - In the circle
Henry Salomon was born on July 24, 1886 in Südafrika. He came to Celle in 1913 and bought the property at Maschplatz 3, where he ran a second-hand goods business or, as it was called at the time, a bone and rag merchant.
Süßkind - Men's and boys' clothing store
Hulda Süßkind, née Graupe, was born in March 1871. Like her husband, the master tailor Siegfried Süßkind (b. 1868), she came from Posen. Siegfried opened a men's and boys' wardrobe shop in 1898 at Am Gro&ßen Plan 15 in Celle. The business included a tailor's shop and a large fabric store. Their only son Werner was born in 1902. The business developed positively, the product range was expanded and in September 1904 the company moved into larger premises at Poststrasse 10.
Victor Roberg manufacture and fashion goods
Since 1906, Victor Roberg (born 1884) lived in Celle, where he was initially employed at the department store Gebrüder Freidberg. After he became a representative of the company F. Machunsky (Marburg) for oils and waxes, Am Heiligen Kreuz 5, he opened a manufacturing and fashion goods shop at Markt 17 in 1919; at the same time he ran an itinerant business. In 1929, Roberg moved to a larger shop at Zöllnerstraße 35. Around 1935, the business premises were closed and the textile trade moved to the family home at Fritzenwiese 48D.
Former Freidberg department store
The Freidberg department store employed around 60 people until its forced sale in 1936. It was the largest department store in Celle before Karstadt, but from 1933 it suffered from the NSDAP's calls for a boycott, so that the business was closed in 1936 and Ida Freidberg emigrated to the USA in 1937.