Store/Shop

In the address book of the city of Bayreuth from 1884, the following entry can be found in the alphabetical list of residents: Würzburger Jakob, Herrenkleidermagazin.

In the Reichenbacher Straße 12 had the raw products dealer Israel Kapitalnik 1929 his business called "I. Kapitalnik raw products shop". In 1934 the business was no longer listed in the Greiz address book.

Abraham Kapitalnik owned the raw products shop "Kapitalnik & Co., Textilabfälle" in Weberstra;e 10. In his shop he bought skins, rags, wool waste, waste paper, iron and metals. In 1934, the shop was no longer to be found in the address directory of Greiz.

In the Müncher address book from 1900 there is an entry: Aischmann Josef, Hopfen- und Exportgeschäft, Ludwigstra;e 60 (T), Wohnung Pilotystra;e 7/3.Josef  Aischmann, born on September 2, 1852 in Mühlhausen (Thüringen) was married to Malwine, née Fürther, born on August 2, 1865 in München. The couple had two children - Justus, born December 14, 1886 in Nürnberg and Klarisse Claire Liliane, born October 29, 1890 in Nürnberg. The family moved from Nürnberg to Munich around 1900.

The department store Behrendt was opened in 1886 by the tradesman Adolph Behrendt in the center of Jena. After Behrendt initially had his business at Markt 16 with his trade license for a trade in white and plaster goods, he acquired the house Markt 17 in 1889/90 and laid the foundation for the establishment of Jena's first department store by expanding the business assortment with manufactures.

In September 1892, Hermann Friedmann and his wife Clara opened a store for butcher's supplies in Jena's Grietgasse with an associated wholesale gut and fur business. Subsequently, the family business developed into a successful company that was also active internationally. The Friedmanns were strongly involved in the "Israelite Religious Community" of Jena. The premises of their store also functioned as a place of Jewish life.

Max Kocherthaler came from Ernsbach.He had already come to Öhringen before the turn of the century, because already in 1895 he was a member of the Männerturnverein of Öhringen. Max Kocherthaler was married twice. His first wife died in 1899 and his second wife Jakobine, née Schulherr, died in 1919. 5 children were born of the two marriages. At the age of 70 Max Kocherthaler moved to Strasbourg in August 1933. In 1937 he sold his house at Untere Torstraße 11 to Friedrich Kircher, a shoemaker from Öhring, who set up his shoe shop there.

The department store Tietz was founded on May 09, 1883 by Julius Tietz, a Jewish businessman from Gera, under the name of his brother Heinrich Tietz at Ernst-Arnold-Platz 10. The opening took place on June 6, 1883, making the Greiz store the second branch to be opened in Thuringia after the one in Gera (1882). Since November 5, 1887, Eduard Lippmann was the new branch manager. At Ernst-Arnold-Platz 10 there used to be the Fritz'sche or rather C. G. Weber's residential building.