Production

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.

Until 1933, business with the farmers in the area goes well. When the Nazis come to power, the business loses more and more suppliers who no longer want to work with the butchery for anti-Semitic reasons. As a result, the business gets into great financial difficulties. After Georg Bach and his wife Edith as well as Walter Bach leave their home country and emigrate, Martin Bach flees to Madeira in the spring of 1938 before his planned arrest by the Gestapo. From 1939 to 1947, the Bachs are able to operate a newly founded sausage factory in exile.