Store/Shop

The address book of the city of Stuttgart from 1895 contains the following entries: Nördlinger & Co, Bankgeschäft. Owner S. H. Nördlinger, Königstraße 54 - Nördlinger Sali H., Banquier, owner of the company Nördlinger & Co. and the Maschinenziegelei Stuttgart-Ostheim, Fischerstraße 4. 2.  - Gutmann Guido, merchant, agency and advertisement expedition business, Silberburgstraße 86. 2.

The Stuttgart address book of 1923 contains the following entries: Leiter Albert, merchant, partner in Leiter & Cie, Hackstr. 22. 3. - Leiter & Cie, textile goods wholesaler, owner: Albert Leiter and Alfred Levi, Leonhardsplatz 13. eg. The following entry can be found in the memorial book " Weg und Schicksal der Stuttgarter Juden ": Leiter Albert, Webwarengroßhandlung, Keplerstraße 23.

Abram Schwarzberg received a concession to open a kosher butcher’s shop in 1947. For the majority of the DPs, the availability of kosher slaughtered meat was very important. On February 2, 1947, Schwarzberg’s shop was vandalized when a stone was thrown through the window in an antisemitic attack.

The textile merchant Joseph Fränkel, born 18.06.1888, ran a white goods business at Leubener Str. 2. He was married to Ida Fränkel, widowed Steinhart. Ida had two children from her first marriage, Alfred and Herta. Joseph and Ida Fränkel were taken to the Hellerberg Jewish camp on November 23/24, 1942. Both had to perform forced labor in the Goehle factory, a Zeiss Ikon AG factory. On March 2, 1943, the camp was dissolved and all the inmates, including Joseph and Ida Fränkel, were deported from Neustadt station to Auschwitz.

Ida Fränkel was born on December 9, 1887 in Tachov (German: Tachau) in the western Bohemian region of Pilsen. She was born and widowed Steinhart. Ida's first husband Max Steinhart had died in 1925 and she had two children from this marriage, Alfred and Herta Steinhart. Ida Fränkel was the owner of the Max Steinhart department store for household and kitchen appliances at Louisenstrasse 39, on the corner of Alaunstrasse. She also worked there.

Michael Heilbronner was born on December 2, 1833 in Ichenhausen.He was married to Henriette, née Wimpfheimer, born on October 7, 1837 in Ichenhausen.Michael Heilbronner lived in the USA for several years before his marriage in 1857.The newly married couple lived in Zweibrücken for the first few years of their marriage.Their first three daughters were also born there.The family moved to Augsburg in 1868.

The antiquarian bookshop B, Seligsberg in Bayreuth was founded in 1828. Benedikt ( Benno) Seligsberg was born in Bayreuth on January 20, 1801. His parents were Benjamin Nathan Seligsberg, from 1814 Seliger and his wife Eleonore, née Hamburger from Fürth. Benedikt Seligsberg had four brothers - Nathan Aharon Nate, born 1799 - died 1800, - Elkan, born 1802, - Ludwig Louis, born 1803, - Berman, born 1809 and Samson Schimschon, born 1810.  Benedikt was "always crooked" and could "not learn a trade".

Carl Callmann Brenner was born on January 28, 1870 in Schwetz on the Vistula (Świecie) in Poland. He was married to Paula Nothmann from Neisse. The couple had one son - Walter. From 1911, the family lived as tenants at Thomasiusstra<e 15. From 1903, the trained merchant Carl Brenner ran the clothing fabric wholesale business " Brenner & Nathan " with a business partner in the Nikolai quarter at Poststra<e 28. The company employed around 20 people. In the course of the so-called " Aryanization "  the company was forced to sell in 1937.