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The stocking and glove factory Gebrüder Kahn in Chemnitz was a flourishing textile company founded in 1906 by the brothers Adolf and Josef Kahn in the Reitbahnviertel (Fritz-Reuter-Straße 12) . As a Jewish company, it was „aryanized“ during the Nazi era. Today, there is a memorial to the former factory.

In 1895, Siegfried Peretz founded a hosiery factory (OHG) in the industrial village of Jahnsbach in the Ore Mountains. In 1904, Peretz moved the stocking factory to Chemnitz. Three years later, his son Albert joins the company as a partner. The young entrepreneur continuously expands the business. In 1921, the company is converted into a public limited company. Peretz's children's and ladies' stockings gained international significance.

In 1938, the company was „aryanized“ and operated under the name Perena-Werk Krauße & Co. until May 1945.

Marschel Frank Sachs AG was a significant Chemnitz textile company (tricot factories and spinning mills), which emerged from the tricot factory of Felix Frank (later Frankwerk) founded in 1885. The company developed into one of the leading textile companies in Saxony before it was "Aryanized" during the Nazi regime in June 1938 and continued to be run by Deutsche Bank as Mafrasa Textilwerke AG.

The businessman Sigmund Goeitz initially founded a trading company for fabric gloves in 1882. From 1899, he began producing tricot and underwear. The ‚Sigmund Goeritz OHG‘ acquires factory premises on Zwickauer Strasse around 1910 and erects a four-storey factory building. Under the management of his son Erich Goeritz, the company developed into one of the leading German manufacturers of women's lingerie under the brand name „Venus“ and founded a public limited company in 1920. In 1927, the architect Hans Poelzig was commissioned to build a reinforced concrete skeleton structure.

In 1870, the brothers Michael Max Goeritz and Moritz Goeritz founded the weaving mill Gebrüder Goeritz OHG, which produced woven fabrics, damasks, plushes and tapestry blankets. After the death of Moritz Goeritz in 1900, his son-in-law Fritz Löwenthal temporarily took over the vacant position in the company. In April 1904, Michael Max Goeritz brought his son Horst into the company. In the same year, a four-storey factory building was erected in Beckerstrasse. Michael Max Goeritz died in 1917, making his son Horst the sole owner of the OHG.

The assets of the Jewish textile manufacturer family Löw-Beers were confiscated in 1939 in favor of the German Reich and placed under trustee administration. Alfred Löw-Beer (1867–1939) was arrested by the Gestapo in March 1939, but was able to escape from the holding cell. Under hitherto unexplained circumstances, however, he was found dead a few days later near the South Bohemian town of Stříbro, having tried to flee his occupied homeland under a false identity to join his family in Switzerland.