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In 1882, Hermann Aufhäuser (1847-1931) from Hainsfarth took over the company together with Max Regensteiner and Leopold Reitlinger, two relatives of his wife. The last two shareholders of the spirits factory "Adolf Rosenfelder" were the merchants Albert Aufhäuser and Gottfried Regensteiner. The company was dissolved in 1938.

The last owner of the pitch factory "Max Dessauer", founded in 1869, was Jakob Dessauer (born in Bamberg in 1878). The company was forcibly sold in September 1938. Jakob Dessauer and his wife Rosa were deported to Riga-Jungfernhof in December 1941.

Home and business premises of Louis and Henriette Schrimmer since 1920. They ran a factory for shoe polish and chemical products in the rear building. In 1937, the Jewish Religious Community of Dresden bought the house. In 1938, the Jewish store owners had to give up their business. The Schrimmer couple were deported from Dresden to Theresienstadt on 25.8.1942. Louis Schrimmer died there on 27.09.1942, Henriette Schrimmer on 25.12.1942.

Former slaughterhouse of the Jewish community, where mainly small livestock and poultry were once slaughtered in accordance with ritual regulations.

The entrepreneur Benno B. Thorsch co-founded the Dresden camera factory Guthe & Thorsch in Niedersedlitz in 1919.

Benno Thorsch was forced to give up his company Kamera-Werkstätten Guthe & Thorsch and leave Germany in 1938 due to his Jewish descent.

He took over a business in Detroit in 1938; he later opened the City Camera Exchange studio near Hollywood with his son Bernward.

Gustav Heidenheim was born on October 17, 1850 in Sondershausen. His parents were the Bleicherode-born rabbi and grammar school professor Prof. Dr. Philipp Heidenheim and Carlina Lina Heidenheim, née Leser, daughter of the court agent and former community leader David Leser in Sondershausen. Gustav Heidenheim was married to Rosalie Ernstine Oppenheim, born on July 13, 1863 in Köln, daughter of Isaac Oppenheim and Berta Oppenheim, née Mayer.

The roots of the glove and stocking factory Heidenheim, Oppenheim & Co. go back to the year 1879 when Gustav Heidenheim founded the fabric glove factory in Chemnitz on July 1, 1879. After the rented premises at Neustädter Markt became too small, the decision was made to build a new factory on the company's own property at Beckerstra<e 13. With its completion, the business area was also expanded with the addition of hosiery. In 1886, the brother-in-law Hugo Oppenheim joined the company. In 1898, health reasons caused Gustav Heidenheim to resign from his position.

Nathan Simons was born on September 4, 1798 in Fliesteden. In 1831 he married Sibilla Löwenthal, born in Geyen on March 4, 1802, in Garzweiler and moved to Neuss with her in 1840. The couple had five children - Brunette, married name Marx, born around 1826,- Leopold, born August 29, 1834,- Sophie, born March 31, 1838 - died May 7, 1846,- Isaak, born April 13, 1840 and Caroline. Initially Nathan Simons was active in the grain trade in the Grevenbroich area. At the age of 33, he founded his own business. Later, he received support from his sons Leopold and Isaak.

The roots of the M.G.Ledermann company go back to the year 1832 in Schwarza. Meyer G. Ledermann founded the leather shop M.G.Ledermann there. Gustav Ledermann moved his father's leather shop to Gotha in 1867, initially to Am Hauptmarkt 25, then from 1872 to Am Hauptmarkt 13 and from 1873 to what is now Gutenbergstra<e 2. From 1876 Gustav Ledermann (1841-1915) ran the business together with his brother Moritz Ledermann (1850-1899). In 1879, the company moved to the newly purchased building at Huttenstrasse 14.

Siegfried Bastheim was born in Hofgeismar on January 5, 1877, to parents Simon and Sara Bastheim, née Heilbrunn, who ran a shop for agricultural supplies at Petristraße 1 in Hofgeismar. Siegfried Bastheim never met his father. He died a few months before he was born. After completing elementary school, Siegfried Bastheim attended a mechanical engineering school and became an engineer.  Around 1910 he moved to Dortmund and founded the  Dortmunder Kettenfabrik Ingenieur Siegfried Bastheim“ at Münsterstraße 259. In 1921, Simon Bastheim married Ernestine (Erna) Sachs from Breslau.