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The spinning and weaving Bach & Bloch was founded in Mülhausen (Mulhouse) in Alsace.  Helmuth Bloch (born 1893 in Mülhausen) was one of the owners of the textile wholesale " Bach & Bloch ". After the 1st World War, the company was reopened in Augsburg by the sons of the company founders. Other partners were Edmund and Ralph Bach.Helmuth Bloch lived with his family in Augsburg in the Frölichstra;e 14. 1936 Helmuth Bloch emigrated with his family to the USA.

Bernhard Kolb - The Jews in Nürnberg 1839 - 1945 - edited by Gerhard Jochem - In a directory of foundations [1867 - 1931]  for the Nürnberger Kultusgemeinde is in 1930 a foundation with 47 000 Marks registered founder August Ney. In the residents' book Nürnberg 1928 is the following entry : Ney August, Metallwerk u. ...., Ebenseestraße 23.

In the Jüdisches Adressbuch Frankfurt 1935 the following entries are found: Mai & Co, Kleiderfabrik, Kaiserstraße 64. -  Mai, Moses, Kleiderfabrik, a) Beethovenstraße 14,- b) Kaiserstraße 64.

In 1932, the brothers Alexander, Alfred and Max Berglas founded the Berglas Mechanische Webereien AG in Berlin. In 1934, the company moved to Papiermühlenweg 14 in Greiz and Alexander Berglas became the managing director (still residing in Berlin). In addition to the Papiermühlenweg 14 property, the Berglas brothers also owned the Papiermühlenweg 16 (18a before 1934) and 20 properties. In 1938, Alexander Berglas was recalled and the Greizer Kammgarn weaving mill was deleted from the commercial register.

The small brewery was developed into a brewing empire by the Jewish businessman Ignatz Nacher. Ignatz Nacher was born in 1868 in Österreich-Schlesien and came to Engelhardt in 1901, became a partner, übernnahmte the then still small brewery. On June 26, 1913, Ignatz Nacher, a resident of Detmold, applied for his „naturalization“ at the High Fürst Government in Detmold „obediently. After the incorporation, he developed the Engelhardt brewery into the second largest brewery group in Germany.

The company, founded by Theordor Schuchardt in 1865, quickly grew from a few employees in a small building in Muskau to a production area in Görlitz of over 8,000 square meters by 1876. After the death of the company founder in 1892,  the business was taken over by his son-in-law Dr. Albert Weil, Kommerzienrat, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Honorary Senator of the TH Breslau üb.

The beginnings of the Ephraim hardware store date back to the middle of the 19th century. In 1902 the company moved to the site with a railway siding behind the Schützenhaus on Zittauer Strasse. Iron and iron structures of the Ephraim Eisenhandlung were used for well-known new buildings in Gürlitz before 1914: hospital, new barracks, hall of fame, joint-stock brewery, town hall, department store, town theater and also the hall complex of the Ephraim Eisenhandelsgesellschaft at the Schützenhaus in Gürlitz Südstadt.