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In 1912, the Dutchman Johan Steenbergen founded the Industrie- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH in Dresden. The company produced photographic equipment and consumer goods. After merging with the company of camera table maker Emil Englisch in 1918, the factory was called Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co. The shareholders were Johan Steenbergen, Emil Englisch, Otto Diebel, Hugo Frauenstein, Konrad Koch, Emil Kirsch and Hermann Schubert.

The businessman Bernhard Lippmann Hurwitz registered a cigarette and tobacco factory at Zirkusstraße 7/0 with the Dresden Trade Office on May 9, 1895. After various business relocations within the city of Dresden, cigarette production began at the end of September 1902 at Blasewitzer Strasse 68 (rear building)

On October 3, 1934, the Jewish owners of the factory, Benno Hurwitz and Dr. Emil Hurwitz, were deported by the NS states. Emil Hurwitz, were expropriated by the Nazi state.

Cigarette factory of the Berlin company of Josef Garbáty in Dresden. Garbáty had taken over the Dresden Aurelia cigarette factory in 1926.

The Jewish Garbáty family emigrated to America in 1939 after the Garbáty property was forcibly sold to the Jacob Koerfer Group from Cologne and the Hamburg-based Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken in the course of the „elimination of Jews from economic life“ in 1938. Josef Garbáty remained in Pankow and died in 1939 two days after his birthday at the age of 88.

Victor Steiner was born on September 1, 1790. His parents were Simon Victor Steiner, born on June 17, 1762 and his wife Miriam Marianne, née Einstein, born on March 10, 1769 in Laupheim. Victor Steiner was married to Zemirah (Sophie) Reichenbach (Moos), born on April 12, 1799 in Hohenems. The couple had 12 children - Simon (Victor), born May 1, 1819, - Karolina, born May 1, 1820, - Gabriel, born March 25, 1826, - Daniel, born July 7, 1827, - Emilie (Esther), born July 27, 1828, - Henriette (Helene), b. June 30, 1829, - Johanna (Jeanette), b. Sep 15, 1831, - Kilian, b.

The Max Schmersow printing works (1890–1945), formerly Zahn und Bändel, was an important printer and publisher of foreign-language books and magazines. The printing house was largely destroyed in a bombing raid on March 17, 1945. The bombs themselves fell on March 17, 1945 at 12:30 pm. 48 citizens lost their lives in the attack. The owner and eight employees of the print shop were killed. A memorial stone nearby - dedicated 10 years after the disaster - still commemorates the tragedy today.

The beginnings of the Jacob Gilardi company date back to 1689, when the Allersberg mayor Johann Georg Heckel d.Ä.

The address book of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1895 contains the following entries: Landauer & Stern, neue Kräme 10, Stroh- u. Filzhutfabrik, E. Carl Marum. - Marum Carl, merchant, ( see Landauer & Stern ), Praunheimerstr. )9p. - The 1903 address book contains the following entry: Landauer & Stern, Kaiserstr. 53, Herren- u. Damenhüte, Blumen, Federn, Nouveautes, E. Carl Marum, P. Stephanie Marum u. Alfr.

The following entries can be found in the Nuremberg address book from 1876: Weinberg B., Kaufmann.Wittwe, Theresienstr.16, - Weinberger M., Großhandel, Josephsplatz 16, - Weinberger Meier, Kaufmann, Josephsplatz 16, - Schloß Leonh., Papierhändler, Tucherstr. 15 ( M. Weinberger´s successor ), - Kohlmann Lazarus, Papierhändler, Tucherstr. 15 ( M. Weinberg`s successor ).  -  Company founder around 1851 was M. Weinberg, who owned the company until 1868. In 1868 the company passed to the nephews Mr. Bernhard Schloß and Lazarus Kohlmann. Since 1912 there was a branch in Stuttgart.

The address book of the city of Wiesbaden from 1917 contains the following entries: J. M. Baum, Nassauische Leinenindustrie, Hofl., Kirchgasse 36, F. 308.  Fabrik: Mechanische Weberei, Gartenfeldstr.25.  Inh. Kommerz. Rat Joseph Baum and Hermann Baum. - Baum Joseph, Kommerz. Rat, Biebricher Str. 45, F. 268.  s. J. M. Baum, Nass. Linen industry. - Baum Alice, fw. Commer. Rat., Biebricher Str.45. F.268. - Baum Hermann, Fabrik, Taunusstr. 5  II. F 616. s. J.M.Baum, Nass. Linen industry. - The roots of the company Nassauische Leinenindustrie J. M.