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After learning the trade of girdler, Gerson Löwensohn did an apprenticeship as an engraver. In 1844, Gerson Löwensohn received a license for a copperplate printing shop. In 1852, he also completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer and moved the company - now called "Lithographische Kunstanstalt G. Löwensohn" - to Sternstraße 19. In addition, Gerson Löwensohn specialized in the printing and sale of picture sheets, children's books and picture books, and in 1865 he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. Four years later, he introduced color printing.

!854 Josef Pfeifer Morgenstern founded the tin foil factory in Forchheim.1858 David Morgenstern, a brother of Josef Pfeifer Morgenstern buys shares in the tin foil factory for 9000 gulden. From 1861 David Morgenstern is the sole owner of the factory. In addition to his sons Heinrich Morgenstern and Kommerzienrat Dr. Friedrich Morgenstern, his son-in-law Isaak Stamm was also an employee and authorized signatory in the company. The company remained in family ownership until the so-called "Aryanization" by the National Socialists in 1938.

In 1855, Daniel Rosenthal founded the company "Daniel Rosenthal & Co.". The previously existing company "Rosenthal, Steinhart & Co." was dissolved by mutual friendly agreement. Each of the 3 partners founded a new company. Daniel Rosenthal was so successful that he was called the "pioneer of the German corset industry". In 1874 the company became a partnership. Bernhard Rosenthal, Aron Fleischer with son Samuel Fleischer joined the company as partners.

The origin of the company A. Gutmann & Co. goes back to the year 1840 in Jebenhausen. There, the master weavers Abraham Gutmann, his brother-in-law Simon Raff and his cousin Isak Raff founded a hand weaving mill, which existed in Jebenhausen until 1861, when it was moved to Göppingen. With the relocation of the company to Göppingen, all three company owners also moved their residence to Göppingen. However, the company owners separated in the same year.