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Jewish cigar factories

The company Steinberg & Meinrath is mentioned on the honorary plaque of 1913 for the then new synagogue at the Steeler Tor.

Iwan Meinrath (*1881 in Hannover) was co-owner of the linen factory Steinberg and Meinrath, which was expropriated in 1938. Iwan survived the Nazi period in illegality and died in 1966.

Co-owner Hermann Steinberg died in 1937 at the age of 59.

The former hat factory was built from 1922 to 1923 according to a design by Erich Mendelsohn. Mendelsohn was a friend of the Jewish Herrmann family from Luckenwalde. Four production halls, a boiler house, a turbine house and two gate buildings were built. In 1932, the father of the family, Gustav Herrmann, died. The Herrmann family emigrated a year later for fear of German racial policies.