Store/Shop

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.

The roots of the Leipzig banking house H. C. Plaut lie in Nordhausen in 1815, when Herz Cusel Plaut founded the company H. C. Plaut. In the Nordhausen directory from 1834, the company is listed as a money exchange business. When Herz Cusel Plaut died in 1835, his wife Caroline, née Blach, continued the business. Gustav Plaut began an apprenticeship in the parental bank at the age of 14. Jakob Plaut (1817-1902) returned to his hometown Nordhausen after his apprenticeship at Bankhaus Becker & Co.

In 1840, Franz Wilhelm Müller founded a textile printing shop at Elsterstrasse 11 in Greiz, which was later joined by a mechanical weaving mill. In 1881, the founder's son took Hugo Kramer on as a personally liable partner in the company, which from then on called itself Franz Müller & Kramer“. Hans (*1893) and Willy Kramer (*1892) followed in their father's footsteps and also became partners in the company. When the pressure on the Jewish businessmen became too great for the Kramers, they left the company in 1938 and emigrated from Germany.