Sigmund Sahlmann, born on December 15, 1828 in Burghaslach, married to Nanny Sulzbacher from Mühlhausen, ran a hop trading business in Mühlhausen from 1856. In November 1861, he applied for a trading permit and settlement permit in Fürth. In January 1862, the application was granted and Sigmund Sahlmann received permission to trade in agricultural products and to settle in Fürth. He founded the company S. Sahlmann at Friedrichstraße 18, later moving to Gebhardtstraße. In the 1938 trade list of businesses with Jewish owners, Maxstraße 29 is indicated as the company headquarters.

The new Jüdische cemetery was established in 1858 and was enclosed by artillery carriages, because from 1872 the German militaryär produced weapons in the area.

In1913 they built a repräsentative double portal at the entrance of the cemetery and at the cemetery chapel.

From 1923 there was Verschönerungsarbeiten at the cemetery, it was purchased 500 square meters für die Erweiterung des Geländs, giving them the chance to vergößern the cemetery to wall and employees such as Gärtner and Friedhofswärter to hire.

Salomon Dorn was the son of David Dorn and Wilhelmina Dorn, née Oestreicher. He was born in 1846 in Fürth and died at the age of 67 in 1913.

The writer Jakob Wassermann lived at Blumenstraße 28 from 1873-1878. According to the text content on the back of the card, Blumenstraße 28 is not identical to the company address.

In the Fürth address book from 1859, the following entry can be found - First main district - Obere Königsstraße - house number 400 - Weil, Abraham, jun., Tuch en gros. In the Bamberger Tagblatt of January 1873 the following advertisement can be found:

At St.-Apern-Straße 29–31 was from 1884 to 1942 one of the centers of Jewish life and learning in Köln.

On 22.10.1898 the philosophy student and later rabbi Wilhelm Lewy founds the Jewish gymnastics club Bar Kochba Berlin with 47 other followers. It is the first Jewish sports club on German soil after the Jewish Gymnastics Club of Constantinople (1895) and the Zionist Gymnastics Club of Plovdiv (1897). Previously, Max Nordau and Max Mandelstamm, among others, had advocated a Jewish gymnastics club at the 2nd Zionist Congress in 1898. The club was named after Simon Bar Kochba, the leader of the Jewish uprising against the Romans (132-135 CE).

The origins of the pencil factory Leopold Illfelder & Söhne lie in 1856, when Daniel Berolzheimer and Leopold Illfelder already founded the pencil factory Berolzheimer & Illfelder. When Daniel Berolzheimer died in 1859, his son Heinrich Berolzheimer took over his share of the company. Together with Leopold Illfelder, a branch office (Berolzheimer, Illfelder & Co.  or B. Illfelder & Co.) was founded in New York in 1861, later "Illfelder Importing Co" or "Eagle Pencil Co.".