Store/Shop

In the 1830s, the Sternberg family came to Spandau from Poznan (Poland). From 1841 they ran a department store, the business was managed by several generations. At the beginning of the 1860s it was still a small business with four employees. But by the 1920s it had developed into a larger company with 50-100 employees. In 1927, the Sternberg department store bought new business premises in Breite Straße and Fischerstraße. It was mainly active in textile trade, selling clothes, curtains, carpets and fabrics. 

After training as a commercial apprentice in Sankt Gallen, Otto Landauer, born Nathan Landauer (1842 in Hürben - 1913 in Munich) opened a button, ribbon and trimmings shop in Munich in 1878, which he later converted into a ladies' fashion store. In 1889, Otto Landauer Damenmoden moved into a newly built business premises at Kaufingerstraße 28. In 1904 and 1906, Landauer acquired the neighboring properties and expanded his salesrooms. In 1909, Otto Landauer became a Bavarian Councillor of Commerce and in 1912 a Royal Bavarian Court Purveyor.

The brothers Levin, Lazarus and Seelig Arons moved to Berlin at the end of the 18th century and founded a cloth and banking business there, which later developed into the private banking house Gebrüder Arons. Until 1938, the company was headquartered at Mauerstrasse 34 in Berlin-Mitte. In 1887, Paul Arons took over the vested interest and the management of the bank Gebrüder Arons and paid off his äolder brother. In 1938, the bank was expropriated and became the property of Deutsche Bank ü