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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.

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