Production

The founding year of the company in Stuttgart goes back to 1874. 8.12.1911 Wilhelm Bleyle sold his first factory, built in 1901 in the Lindenspürstra;e, to Mendel & Levy, since he had another factory built in 1908 on the opposite side of the street and also owned other factory buildings in Brackenheim, Ludwigsburg and in the Rotebühlstraß;. Business at Mendel & Levy was going well. Business connections to Westphalia, northern Germany and Luxembourg bear witness to this. Only with the change of power and government in 1933 did business decline.

In 1875, the Viennese manufacturers Moriz Heller and Emil Askonas took over the knitting factory of Franz and Franziska Danzinger in Schrems.The family names Heller and Askonas became the company and brand name of the hosiery and glove factory " Hellas ". The sales office of the hosiery and glove factory was located in Vienna at Gonzagagasse 3. The factories themselves were located in Schrems in Lower Austria, in Asch / Czech Republic and in Györ in Hungary

In the book " Weg und Schicksal der Stuttgarter Juden " by Maria Zelzer, - Ein Gedenkbuch - published by the city of Stuttgart - there is the following entry in the appendix on page 466 under the listing of factory owners - Engländer Ernst, Hauptmannsreute 10 (to Holland), Justin Engländer, Lindenspürstraße 20, Otto Engländer, Breitlingstraße 35 and Walter Engländer. Hölderlinplatz 5 (since 1933 in Paris, died 1944 in Auschwitz), partner of the company Gebr. Engländer, Gardinenfabrik, Adlerstra;e 43.

In the Jüdisches Adressbuch für Gross-Berlin - Edition1929/1930 is the following entry: Hahn Harry, N W 87 Lessingstra;e 54.  -  Harry Hahn was the founder and 1st Chairman of the Berlin Rowing Club " Triton " eV. - Founding date October 1, 1898. In 1927, the still 1st Chairman Harry Hahn bought a waterfront property on the Spree for the club, which in the following year of the purchase the laying of the foundation stone of a boathouse followß.

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Louis Kuppenheim was born on August 2, 1824. He was married to Berta Kuppenheim, née Levinger, born on November 21, 1839. The couple had 10 children. Louis Kuppenheim died on January 19, 1889, and his wife Bertha Kuppenheim on January 2, 1926. The couple found their final resting place at the Jüdische Friedhof in Pforzheim.  Louis Kuppenheim was a jewelry manufacturer. In 1857, he founded Louis Kuppenheim G.m.b.H. In 1872, the company was rebuilt at Durlacher Strasse 1 in Pforzheim. The sons Albert Kuppenheim, Hugo Kuppenheim and Ernst Kuppenheim then managed the company together.

The Jüdisches Adressbuch Frankfurt am Main 1935 contains the following entry: Kahn Julius, Buchdrucker, Hans Handwerkstr. 32

The roots of the Eckstein & Söhne cigarette factory go back to 1865 in Göttingen. In that year, Abraham Meyer Eckstein founded the company with his son Nathan Eckstein.