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Leopold Frank, Carl Sally and Louis Lehmann founded a wholesale business for cleaning and fashion goods together in the 1890s in Köln on Hohe Straße. From the early 1930s, the fashion goods manufacturer resided at 37 Unter Sachsenhausen in a magnificent building designed by the famous German architect Peter Behren (a stately city palace for the Köln banker Eduard Freiherr von Oppenheim). Fritz Dagobert Lehmann, son of Louis Lehmann, was born in Cologne on December 11, 1879, also trained as a merchant and joined the company after finishing school.

The beginnings of the " Hesse Newman & Co " - Bank go back to 1777, when Isac Hesse, a calico broker and money changer born in Osterode in the Harz Mountains in 1737, founded his banking business in Altona. Isac Hesse's sons Heinrich Levin and Hartwig also worked in the former banking business. In 1825, Heinrich Levin changed the name of the company to " H. L. Hesse ". Heinrich Levin Hesse was married to Mathilde Amalie Hesse, née Oppenheimer.

Richard Oppenheim was born on March 17, 1866. His parents were Joseph (later Julius) Oppenheim, born on September 27, 1828 in Echte/Harz and Emilie Wolfers, born on May 12, 1842 in Minden. Richard, a trained merchant, became co-owner of the company "Oppenheim & Co, M. Rosenstirn Nachf." around 1890-1896. In November 1896, he married the Evangelical Lutheran Ida Zimmermann. In the meantime, Richard Oppenheim described himself as "non-denominational". In 1898, he was the sole owner of the "Richard Oppenheim" agency and commission company.

In the general address book for Göttingen 1881 the following entries can be found under the name Eichenberg: Eichenberg Baruch, Handlungs-Commis., Johannisstr.26 - Eichenberg Feodor, Commis, Gronerstr.4 - Eichenberg Sal., Getreidehändler, Neustadt 20 - Eichenberg Siegfr, Getreidehändler, Gronerstr. 4 - In the street directory -  Neustadt 20, - Gebr. Eichenberg, Fruchthandlung.  - The following entry can be found in the 1897 address book: Eichenberg, S. S., Getreidehdlg. (Siegfr. u. Selly E.), Neust. 20, Lager landwirthsch. Machine. Gronerthorstr. 32, F.

The address book of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1916 contains the following entry: Joseph Rothschild jr., specializing in gallantry goods, wholesale, export, Langestraße 7, ground floor, (Tel. Hansa 5699), (Postscheck-K. 2348), owner Joseph Rothschild.

After the Shoah, the few surviving men and women from the Theresienstadt camp were quartered in various emergency shelters in Frankfurt; these included the retirement home at Sandweg 7 in eastern Nordend and the former, badly damaged hospital of the Israelite community at Gagernstraße 36 in Ostend, as well as the former Israelite elementary school at Röderbergweg 29. In addition to the strict rationing of food, the observance of kashrut, the dietary laws, made things even more difficult for Jews. "The first kosher butcher's shop ... was also in Theobald-Christ-Straße.

In 1889, the merchants Ferdinand Elsbach and Julius Frank founded their specialist business, initially only for men's and boys' clothing, some of which they had produced in their own tailoring shop.

The company expanded in 1910: The managing director Josef Adamski founded a branch in Hildesheim, Hoher Weg 8. Adamski ütook over this branch in 1933, and it is now run under the name Adamski GmbH & Co. KG today.

The address book of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1915 contains the following entry: Goldschmidt Jakob, Landesprodukte und Mühlenfabrikate, Agent. und Komiss., Schützenstr.2.