Cloth trade - Loden factory - Simson Rosenau

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Simson Rosenau initially ran a cloth shop at Deininger Straße 15. Later, he started a loden factory together with Gustav Löwengard, which he continued on his own after Gustav Löwengard's demise. The loden factory was located on the road to Luntenbuck, which ran parallel to the Stuttgart railroad line. In the 1920s, the factory passed to Wilhelm Busse and was moved further out into a modern plant on Nürnberger Strasse.

Banker and merchant - Julius Wolbach

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Julius Wolbach was appointed in 1896 as the first Jüdischer Bürger in the college of the municipality representatives of the city Nördlingen. In 1906 he was succeeded by Salomon Gutmann. The appointment to this body can be seen both as a sign of the integration that had occurred in the meantime and of personal esteem. Julius Wolbach was elected one of the 24 municipal representatives after the municipal elections in December 1893. The election of Salomon Gutmann as a Gemeindebevollmächtigten took place at the election in December 1905.

Ready-made clothing store - A. Hamburger

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Adolf (Abraham) Hamburger, born on September 6, 1845 in Schopfloch, died on January 20, 1929 in Nördlingen, and buried in the Jewish cemetery of Nördlingen, was married to Sofie (Sprinz) née Gunz since January 7, 1871. Sofie was born on January 18, 1849 in Fischach, the daughter of Josef Gunz and Jette née Rosenfelder. She died on October 17, 1924 in Nördlingen and was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Nördlingen. The couple had five children: Amalie, Frieda, Willi, Hermann and Moritz. The family lived in the Eisengasse.