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Aron Baruch Dessauer was born on February 21, 1763 in Gochsheim (Baden). His parents  were the head of the Jewish community of Gochshein Baruch Dessauer and Mindel, née Seligmann. Aron Baruch Dessauer was a court banker and army supplier to the Elector of Mainz Karl Theodor von Dalberg.In 1792 Aron Baruch Dessauer came to K nigshofen ob der Tauber (Baden) and married Behlasina (Belusina, Beile) David, born on June 25, 1775 in K nigshofen; her parents were Joseph David, a merchant and tradesman, and Henriette, née Sontheim.

The Harburg Phoenix is one of the oldest companies in Harburg. The founders, the brothers Albert and Louis Cohen, sons of a Jewish banking family, received the civil rights from the Harburg mayor August Grumbler on June 13, 1856. They had been commissioned by the city to operate a factory for the production of rubber shoes and vulcanized rubber. The factory changed its name several times. In 1872, it merged with an Austrian company and was now called Vereinigte Gummiwaren-Fabriken Harburg – Wien". In 1922, the company collapsed again with the onset of inflation.

As early as 1890, the dentist Dr. med dent. Hoddes with a thesis on total prosthetics. However, 21 years passed before the dental factory was founded in 1911 by the spa town dentist Dr. Josef Hoddes. In 1927, 16 years later, the company moved to the building in Frankfurter Strasse, which had been built in 1906 as a residential building. In 1939, Dr. Hoddes was forced to sell the dental factory below its value in the course of the so-called Aryanization. After 1945, Dr. Hoddes got his company back.

Max Salomon was born on January 8, 1853 in Pollnow/Kreis Schlawe and grew up in Landsberg an der Warthe. On August 9, 1879, the company Max Salomon Getreidehandel Schivelbein was entered in the commercial register. In 1889 at the latest, he took over the Schlossmühle in Schivelbein. The Mühle included a farm, 30 cows, arable horses, chickens, pigs, ducks and geese, vegetable and flower gardens, rye, oat and potato fields.In 1912, Villa Salomon“, the family home with the characteristic figure of Demeter, the Greek goddess of fertility, was built on the Mühlengelände.

Šiauliai was once a predominantly Jewish town and a center of the leather industry with a global reputation.

At the age of just 25, Chaim Fraenkel's leather factory dominated the town.

Around 1870, David Sachs (1836-1918) was employed as an accountant by the widow of the head bailiff and seed grower Grasshoff in Quedlinburg. As a Prussian subject of Jewish faith, David Sachs was able to acquire August Gebhardt's nursery in Kleersstra e 47 and founded his own seed nursery in 1878. The company grew rapidly. After 1890, the company moved to the premises of the former sugar factory of Hanewald u. Weber, formerly Hanewald u. Zerbst at Badeborner Weg 4.  It was the third largest seed breeding company of international importance.

Founded in Ulm in 1879, the company moved into a new factory building in Schützenstraße in 1899. The owners of the company were Ludwig Bernheim and his son Max. In August 1900, Ludwig Bernheim's son-in-law Theodor Wolff joined the company as a further partner.