Store/Shop

The building was erected around 1898 on behalf of Benjamin Fanger (1860-1930) as a department store, business and residential building. After his death, his wife Fieda and later his daughter Selma Lotte and her husband Moritz Auerbach continued to run the Fanger department store. Later, the Hava, the house of many articles, managed by Max Brecher and Max Rosenbaum, was located here.

The photographer Genja Jonas was born Jenny Jonas on September 2, 1895 in Rogasen/Posen (now Rogozno). She grew up as the second child of the Jewish cigar merchant Simon Sigismund Jonas together with three siblings in Bromberg. She went to Berlin to train as a photographer and worked as a professional photographer from 1912. She then settled in Dresden, like her younger brother Kurt, where she opened her photo studio, called Portikus, at Bürgerwiese 6 in 1918. Genja Jonas quickly became a popular portrait photographer who soon gained a reputation far beyond Dresden, even in Europe.

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.