Production

Otto and Hermann Aschaffenburg, founded the company "Gebrüder Aschaffenburg" in 1897 and started their production mechanical looms. Their weaving mill was initially located in rented rooms of the non-Jewish dye works "Simons & Gier" on today's Künkelerstraße 37. Simons & Gier processed the woven goods made by their tenants directly further.

Abraham Gotthelf founded the company ""A. Gotthelf & Cie" in 1861. The "mixed chairware factory" was located at what is now Kapuzinerstrasse 1. The company name suggests that Gotthelf had a partner who is no longer known today. It was a manual operation and it is not certain that all the manual looms (weaving looms operated by hand, not by machine) were together in the factory building. Nevertheless, the business must have flourished very well, because Abraham Gotthelf was at the top of all tax-paying Jews in Gladbach in the years 1869-1873.

Aron Elkan founded a cardboard factory in 1861, the "Papier-u. Pappenf. A. Elkan". This must be imagined at first still very small and modest. The company premises were located on Krefelder Straße 175.

From 1896, Aron Elkan's sons Johannes and Peter, who had taken over the company in the meantime, began producing roofing felt. Roofing felt was a new product at that time, which was well received and promised good economic prospects with a rapid expansion of ever new factory facilities. The contested path brought great economic success already a few years.

In the Leipzig address book 1909 are the following entries: Liebes S., factory owner, ( Thomasiusstr.5 ), Katzbachstr. 8, Zerbster Str. 2, - Liebes & Teichtner., calendar factory, (Zerbster Str.2), Wittenbergerstraße 21 (storage place), Zerbster Straße 4.  6 (storage place). - Teichtner C., factory owner, ( Pfaffendorfer Stra;e 13.), Katzbachstr. 8, Zerbster Str.2. - Salomon (Siegfried) Liebes, born 1865 in Leipzig was the son of Hermann Liebes and Karoline Liebes, née Jeroslaw. Salomon (Siegfried) Liebes was a merchant and print shop owner in Leipzig.

The origins of the J. Elsbach & Co linen factory go back to the year 1844/48 in Herford. At that time, Levi Elsbach ran a linen business. In 1873, the brothers Josef and Hermann Elsbach founded the J. Elsbach & Co " Herforder Hemdenfabrik. In the years that followed, the company continued to expand - with a branch in Berlin in 1878 – 1907.  Before 1914, there were further Elsbach factories in Löhne, Lage, Bielefeld, Berlin, Enger and Oerlinghausen.  In 1907, the company was transformed into Elsbach AG (Aktiengesellschaft).

Ludwig Heimann founded the company " Schuhwaren en gros " in 1886. For the year 1895 the order and delivery of a steam engine is documented. The company's letterhead is adorned with a silver medal from the Bavarian State Industrial Trade Exhibition in Nuremberg in 1896. In 1906, health reasons led Ludwig Heimann, the founder of the company, to decide to slowly withdraw from the company and hand it over to his nephews Max Landenberger and Wilhelm Heimann.

The companies Salb & Wohl and Heinrich Lang & Söhne, both margarine manufacturers merged around 1912 and henceforth operated under the name " Vereinigte Margarinewerke Nürnberg ". In 1939, in the course of Aryanization, the two Jewish shareholders handed over their shares in Vereinigte Margarine Werke Nürnberg to the non-Jewish shareholders under government pressure.

In the address book of the city of Köln are the following entries: M. & S. Meyerfeld   (Max Meyerfeld), Öle,- Lacke,- und Farbenfabr., Ehrenf., Overbeckstr.38.  - Meyerfeld Max (E), see above, Spichernstr. 46 II. - Moses Max Meyerfeld was born on July 8, 1878 in Spangenberg. His parents were Ruben Meyerfeld from Treysa and Bertha Oppenheimer from Heiligenstadt. He had two sisters - Rosalie/Sara Meyerfeld, born October 20, 1876 and Sofia Selma Meyerfeld, born January 10, 1880.

Bernhard Ullmann, born November 23, 1809 in Fürth was  merchant and bronze color manufacturer. In 1846 he founded the Bernhard Ullmann & Co leaf metal, bronze paint and brocat factory in Fürth. In 1891, the factory was sold by Isaak Brandeis to Bernhard Ullmann & Co, who moved the business away from Fürth and had the buildings demolished in 1902. In the meantime, the factory was surrounded by residential buildings and could no longer be expanded. In place of the Brandeis factory, the Theresienstr. 4-10 group of apartment buildings was erected.