Store/Shop

Walter Steinhart was born on September 5, 1880 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, his wife Rosa, née Steinhart, on June 17, 1885 in Tachau/Eger in western Böhmen, now Tachov in the Czech Republic. Rosa Steinhart was the sister of Ida Fränkel, née Steinhart.

The Steinhart department store was located on the corner of Kesselsdorfer Straße and Poststraße in the Löbtau district of Dresden.

About 1906, Richard Steinhart (*26.5.1873) opened a shop for fashion accessories, which later developed into a department store. It offered everything for the modern household. The catchy advertising slogan: "As hard as stone" tells you: "Your department store must be as hard as stone." The sons Kurt and Werner took over the flourishing business from their father.

In Adolph Lehmann's allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger : nebst Handels- u. Gewerbe-Adressbuch für d. k.k. Reichshaupt- u. Residenzstadt from 1923 contains the following entry: Berson Kautschuk-Gesllschaft m.b.H., distribution of rubber goods with the word mark "Berson", (also English, Italian, Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, French and Hungarian) VII Zieglergasse 6, capital stock 3,000,000 K, managing directors Julius and Robert Beer, drawing coll.

The roots of the haberdashery business I.

Heinrich (Hirsch) Aufhäuser was born in Hainsfarth on March 1, 1842.his parents were the smoke merchant Moses Löb Aufhäuser and the Munich private banker's daughter Cäcilie Oberndoerffer.1855,- At the age of 13, he learned the banking business in the bank of Joel Nathan Oberndoerffer, and on May 14, 1870, he founded the private bank Aufhäuser & Scharlach in downtown Munich together with the merchant Samuel Scharlach.

The Berlin address book of 1890 contains the following entry: William Rosenheim & Co, (Komm. Ges.), Bank- und Kommiss. Business, Unter den Linden 33, II. Pers. haft. Company Louis and Siegmund Susman.

The roots of the " Weinkelterei - Weinkommision Hermann Levy, Landau " go back to the year 1891 - as can be read on a letter - invoice header of a list extract of the Weinkelterei - Weinkommoision from 1937. Hermann Levy's company had been operating a flour and country products business with a wine commission since 1901 and added the trade in wine in 1909. The Hermann Levy company were the brothers Hermann and Heinrich Levy, who started out very small in the wine trade. Wine tastings in the surrounding area and visits to customers - wine sales - were initially carried out by bicycle.