Store/Shop

In the address book Gotha 1924/25 the following entry can be found  -  Meyerstein & Walther, Pferdehdlg., Kastanienallee 4, H R

In 1875, the Viennese factory owners Moriz Heller and Emil Askonas took over the knitting factory of Franz and Franziska Danzinger in Schrems.The family names Heller and Askonas became the company and brand name of the hosiery and glove factory " Hellas ". The sales office of the stocking and glove factory was located in Vienna at Gonzagagasse 3. The factories themselves were located in Schrems in Lower Austria and in Györ in Hungary.

Already in the Mainer address book of 1865 ( Mainzer Wegweiser) the following entry is found - Hamburg Leopold, Ellenwaarenhändler, Höfchen 5.

He lived "Großer Markt 13",today's "Markt 10" (Karstadt). He was a merchant. Albert David was born on August 9, 1876 in Hoerstgen He was married to Selma, née Gottschalk from Cologne. Selma died already on November 26, 1931 in Geldern.Albert David was a successful merchant and ran a textile business in Geldern, Großer Markt 13. Anti-Jewish measures , including calls for boycotts by the National Socialists eventually forced him to close the business.He leased the business and fled to Gennep in the Netherlands.

Owner of the textile wholesale A.H.Rothschild, Kaiserstrasse 167 was the merchant and textile merchant Salomon Rothschild born on December 11, 1859 in Bretten.1939 he emigrated to Holland.On February 16, 1943 he was deported from there to the transit camp Westerbork and already a week later, on February 23 further to the extermination camp Sobibor in Poland, where he then came to death.

In addition to this department store, Hanau could also boast the Wronker department store. This was founded by Hermann Wronker, a nephew of Leronard Tietz, who owned department stores in Mannheim, Nuremberg, Pforzheim, Darmstadt, Hanover, Worms and Frankfurt am Main. Both Hanau department stores and their Jewish owners fell victim to the crimes of the National Socialists.

In 1929, a department store of Leonhard Tietz AG was built at the corner of Nürnberger Straße / Hirschstraße (GPS1). Leonhard Tietz AG was founded in 1905 by the Jewish merchant Leonhard Tietz and owned several department stores. 

Wilhelm Joseph founded a store in 1892 at Hauptstr.163, corner Großgörschenstraße, which later became a department store.  His brother - Sally Joseph was the owner of a store for men's wardrobe across the street at Hauptstr.1, corner Grunewaldstraße, which was forcibly "Aryanized" in 1940.