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The founder of the department store K. M. Fechheimer & Co. was the merchant Koppel Mayer Fechheimer (1799-1885) from Mitwitz (district of Kronach). His son Samuel Fechheimer (1841-1890) moved the company to Coburg, where it was entered in the commercial register on January 12, 1876. In 1893, the company acquired the property at Spitalstraße 12.

The department store's product range included manufactured and fashion goods, women's and children's clothing and lingerie. As a supplier to the Coburg ducal court, the company enjoyed an excellent reputation in Coburg.

From 1883, Jacob Waitzfelder (1844–1903), a merchant from Mönchsdeggingen, ran a leather business together with Sigmund Oettinger under the name „Jacob Waitzfelder & Cie.“. Prior to this, Waitzfelder had already been running a leather business at the same location for twelve years. In 1903, Jacob Waitzfelder's son Bernhard (born in Augsburg in 1875) joined the company as a partner. After Jacob Waitzfelder s death in the same year, his widow Deborah, née Oettinger, (1854–1927) also became a partner.

Since the 1980s, local politicians in Soltau have been grappling with questions of an appropriate and historically responsible culture of remembrance of the Shoah.

The roots of the Baldauf family lie in Binswangen, where Nathan Baldauf, born on July 2, 1847, lived with his family and ran a large textile business.

The Berlin address book from 1920 contains the following entry: Franziska Rager, Spitzen, Weißßwaren u. Blusen, Schöneberg, Bayerischer Platz 10, Erdgeschoß, T. Steph. 3269., Wohnung: NW 23, Klopstockstraße 26. - Entry of the business in the commercial register - 1916 - expired 1939 - Franziska Rager, born on May 1, 1883 in Berlin  was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on October 3, 1942 and from there to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp on September 6, 1943 and murdered there.

The Frankfurt address book from 1923 contains the following entry: Ferd. Dreyfuß & Moritz, Großhandlung, Fabrik und Export von Damenhandschuhen, Strumpf- u. Wollwaren, Verkauf, Kontor, Lager u,d Verwaltung: Bürger-Str. 9.11., (Tel. Hansa 3729,3730,3731 Röm 4005,4006,4007). (BK Reichsk. D. & J. de Neufville, Darmst. u. Nationalbk., Dresdner Bk., Grunelius & Co., Postscheck-K. 4690), dispatch: Post-Str.8a, Tel. (Hansa 3970). Owner Ferd. Dreyfuß. Collective proc. Moses Rosenstock, Karl Lindenkohl, Arthur Kühnrich, Fritz Cahn, Selma Isenberg, Fdr. Schröder u. Sigf. Rossmann.

The following entry can be found in the address book of the city of Munich from 1867: Lehmann Aaron, Großhandlung, Promenadestraße 6.

Leopold Heilbrunn ran a business as a livestock dealer from 1919. From 1938, Jewish cattle dealers were systematically removed from the commercial register and their trade was effectively banned.

In 1939, he and his family managed to flee to Australia.

The wholesale business in cloth, wool and knitwear was founded in 1871 by the brothers Jacob Isay, born in Schweich in 1842, and Moritz Isay, born in Schweich in 1851. The parents of the brothers were the cattle dealer Abraham Isay and Henriette Isay, née Lieser from Schweich an der Mosel. After the retirement of the company founders, their sons Adolph, born on May 1, 1875 in Cologne, and Siegfried, born in 1876 (son of Jakob), together with Alfred, born on August 17, 1885 (son of Moritz), took over the company.

The city's address book from 1915 contains the following entry: Löwenherz Ephraim, Kurzw.-Handlung, Sendlingerstr.30/3 I A. Store 75,  Fil. Kapuzinerstr.35 u. Vict. Scheffelstr.22. - Ephraim Emil Löwenherz  was born on July 12, 1877 in Zaleszczyki / Galicia in the Ukraine. His parents were Isidor L wenherz, a merchant in Zaleszczyki and  Rosa L wenherz, née Goldschmid. He was married to Ernestine (Dina, Tina) Löwenherz, née Friediger, born on April 22, 1878 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia in Poland.