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Moses Samuel Landauer was born on April 12, 1808 in Krumbach-Hürben. After an apprenticeship as a weaver and six years of traveling, he passed his master craftsman's examination in 1833 and set up his own business. The master weaver set up 2 looms in his parents' house. After his marriage to Klara Guggenheimer, he built himself a house in which he set up 12 looms in the cellar. From 1857 to 1858, he was finally able to put his own mechanical weaving mill with 32 looms into operation in his newly built factory in Krümbach-Hürben.

The Berlin address book - 1876 edition contains the following entries: Samuel Breslaer, Fein-Fleischwaarenhandlung- und Fabrik, Klosterstr. 91, Pt. u. I. E., Inh. Samuel Breslauer 

- Lachmann D., Reindeer, Hohenzollernstr. 3.

Text of the back page - Berlin, Nov. 2, 76  -  Be so kind as to send us 2 1/2 pounds of beef tomorrow Friday afternoon  - D. Lachmann, Hohenzollernstr. 3

Richard Kohn was born on December 29, 1856 in Lipkowitz ( Lipkovice). His parents were Moritz Kohn and Sofie Sara Kohn, née Löw. Richard Kohn had five siblings - Albine, born on December 25, 1858, Gabriele, born on November 11, 1863, Ludwig, born on February 13, 1866, Joseph, born on February 18, 1869 and Victor, born on January 17, 1871. on February 18, 1869 and Victor, born on January 17, 1871. Richard Kohn was married to the daughter of Leopold and Luise Löw, née Fischel - Hermine Kohn, born on February 18, 1864 in Prague.

The soap boiler Isaack Levy Enoch (born 1801) practiced his trade in the Blumlage (Altenceller Vorstadt) in house no. 11. He died in 1856 and his grave is located in the Jewish cemetery in the Hehlentor district (Am Berge/Hügelstraße).

In the second half of the 19th century, the merchant Anselm Heinrich Dülken founded the company A.H. Dülken & Cie. in Deutz as a general partnership, with Joseph Dülken and Isidor Dülken as co-partners.After Anselm Heinrich Dülken left the business in 1886, Gottlob Graf became a new partner, and at the end of 1894 the general partnership was converted into a limited company with a share capital of 500,000 marks; Josef Dülken had died in the meantime.

The roots of the R.J.Mayer shoe factory lay in the opening of a leather and country goods trade by Rafael Julius Mayer from Mönchsroth together with his sons Julius, David and Gustav Mayer. In 1895, the Rafael Julius Mayer shoe factory was established with the partners Gustav and David Mayer at Vordere Schmiedgasse 20 in Gmünd. Julius Mayer, born October 19, 1858, married Regina, née Lehmann, born June 20, 1866 in Wengheim.

The address book of the factory and trading town of Chemnitz from 1920 contains the following entry: Doerzbacher J. (Fa.) - Strumpf- und Handschuhfabrik, Platanenstraße 2a. EG., owner Max Doerzbacher.  -  Hedwig Doerzbacher, née Kohn, born 1883, widow of the Chemnitz hosiery manufacturer Max Doerzbacher was deported to the Belzyce ghetto on May 10, 1942 and subsequently murdered. A stumbling stone at Ahornstra&;e 32 in Chemnitz commemorates the fate of Hedwig Doerzbacher.

In 1890, Julius Lewin's father founded his first cigarette and tobacco factory in Gollub, which he joined and later took over. After his participation in the First World War, he moved it to Dresden on Freiberg Street in 1919. The background to this was the better economic prospects, but also the fact that it was foreseeable that Gollub would fall to Poland under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.From 1922, Lewin called the company Oriental Tobacco and Cigarette Factory „Yramos“ Julius Lewin, his son Hermann Lewin became co-owner.

Immediately after the National Socialist seizure of power and the centrally organized boycott against Jewish retailers and traders, doctors' surgeries and law firms in Dresden on 1 April 1933, the Jewish Lande family decided to sell the company, which was highly modern at the time, and emigrate: Wilhelm Lande and his wife gave in to pressure from the Nazi regime and emigrated to the USA in the spring of 1933, daughter Cäcilie sold the W.

Eduard Elbogen was born in Prague on January 25, 1857. His parents were Jakob Samuel Elbogen, born in Prague in 1820, and Marie, née Schulhof, born in Prague on May 23, 1833. Both parents died in Vienna (1920 / 1922). Eduard Elbogen was married to Jenni Melanie Elbogen, née Kadelburg, born on October 23, 1864 in Budapest. The couple had four children - Lilli Agathe Elbogen; Auguste Klarmann; Dr. Edgar Dagobert Elbogen and Dr. Lothar Stefan Elbogen. Eduard Elbogen died on August 30, 1931 in Vienna. Jenni Melanie Elbogen was deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt on June 28, 1942.