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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.

Hut factory Gustav Herrmann (founded in 1883 by brothers Moritz and Salomon Herrmann)

Hat and cloth factory Steinberg, with residential, administrative and production building (today Kreissparkasse). In 1921, the Steinberg company fusinonized with the Jewish Herrmann family. In 1922 and 1923, the architect and friend of the Herrmann family, Erich Mendelsohn, designed a complex with a dyeworks, power station and gatehouses.

The factory had 500-700 workers before the First World War, in 1919 300-400 people worked here. The gentlemen of Paris donated capital to the city, the interest of which was to benefit the workers, established welfare facilities, such as coffee kitchens and canteens.

The Carl Goldschmidt hat factory, consisting of a factory building and two residential buildings was built in 1922 according to plans by Karl Stodieck. Residents protested at the time against the construction, which was built in the direct line of Mendelsohn's hat factory. Today under monument protection.