In 1866, Samuel Heumann, a native of Laupheim, moved to Göppingen. He was a rag merchant from Laupheim and continued the trade with fabric remnants and fabric waste in Göppingen. After his death in 1911, his son Hugo Heumann took over the trade and founded the business "Hugo Heumann" - trade in weaving waste, later "En gros Geschäft in Baumwollwaren". The merchant Samuel Bühler was the husband of Hugo Heumann's sister Rosa, who married Samuel Bühler in Göppingen in 1891 and moved with her husband to Munich in January 1892.

Originally coming from Jebenhausen from the 1862 established company "Heumann, Hildebrand & Fleischer", which was dissolved again in 1869 by its three partners Kaufmann Heumann, Gottlieb Hildenbrand and Moritz Fleischer, founded the same year after moving to Göppingen Kaufmann Heumann together with his son Julius Heumann the company "Heumann & Son". In 1876 Leopold Heumann, the younger son of Kaufmann Heumann, joined the company as a partner. After the death of Kaufmann Heumann in 1877 and the death of Julius Heumann in 1899, Leopold Heumann remained as sole owner.

Wilhelm heidecker and Hans Koch founded the company Heidecker & Koch on April 2, 1908. The company headquarters was Friedrichsgmünd No. 70 1/2 until 1912. When the flour merchant Moritz Wild sold his house, built in 1901, to Wilhelm Heidecker because he had moved to Nuremberg, Friedrichsgmünd No. 30 became the new company address.

Former villa of the engineer, automobile pioneer, publisher and entrepreneur Dr. Ernst Valentin. Residence until 1938, then emigration to Brazil. Stumbling block laid in 2011