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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.

The origins of Leopold Cassella & Co. G.m.b.H. go back to 1798 in Frankfurt. At that time, David Lüb Caßel, who was born in Friedberg on December 8, 1766, founded the Caßel & Reiß " specialty goods business with his brother-in-law Isaac Elias Reiß in Frankfurt's Judengasse. When Ludwig Aaron Gans, who had joined the business in 1822, married Rosette Goldschmidt, daughter of Leopold Cassela's sister, who had joined his family due to his childless marriage, Ludwig Aaron Gans became a partner in the business. Together they founded the trading company Leopold Cassella & Co.

In the address book of the city of Gera from the year 1934 the following entry is found - Cohn, Julius, Damenmäntelfabrik, Schuhgasse 10, F 3786.

Former location of the wholesale and goods agency called M.L. Reyersbach AG, run by brothers Paul and Franz Reyersbach (1880-1936). The company was engaged, among other things, in the trade and manufacture of musical instruments and bicycles. The company at Damm 4 was named after their grandfather Moses Levi Reyersbach.

The origins of the company Manus Katzenstein go back to the year 1842, when an ironmonger who had moved to the area founded the business. The founder was Manus Katzenstein, who was born in Erdmannsrode around 1788. Over the years, the business developed into a respected metal and iron shop and was still located at 52 Wolfhager Stra&szlig. The increasing industrialization of Kassel at the turn of the century as well as the prospering business prompted the owner Moritz Katzenstein to give up the old company location in 1905 and to move it to Sanderhauml;user Straße 17.