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Robert Simon Heinemann was born on December 4, 1856 as the first child of Marcus and Henriette Heinemann in Lüneburg. Like almost all male members of the Heinemann family, he attended the Johanneum grammar school. Unlike his ancestors, he became neither a merchant nor a banker, but a lawyer.

In order to protect the bank from the National Socialist regime, Paul Petschek moved the bank's headquarters to London and transferred large blocks of shares to the British-American holding company UCC. (1938)

The Petschek Palace was used as the headquarters of the Gestapo in 1939.

The address book of the city of Hanover in 1873 contains the first entry: Berend & Gottschalk, Bankgeschäft, Inh: Banq. Sally Berend u. Kaufmann Louis Gottschalk.1930 address book contains the following entry: Berend & Gottschalk, Bank, Edelmetalle, Rathenauplatz 7, T. 36241, Tel-Adr: Berengo, ( BK Reichsbankgiro, Postscheckkto Hannover 368 ), owned by Karl Gottschalk and Arthur Buschhoff. - Louis Gottschalk was born on January 31, 1839 in Burgdorf. He was married to Henriette Rothschild, born on October 5, 1849 in Köln.

Dr. Albert Steiner was born on September 26, 1896 in Göppingen as the son of a lawyer.  He was admitted to the Göppingen District Court from the end of 1923 and to the Ulm Regional Court from the beginning of 1924.  With the „Fünften Verordnung zum Reichsbürgergesetz“ of September 27, 1938, the admission of Jewish lawyers was revoked as of November 30, 1938. This was the conclusion of the National Socialists' plan (Law on Admission to the Bar of April 7, 1933) to withdraw the admission of Jewish lawyers. Following this decree in 1938, Dr.

The Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt Prag - Židovské listy was a bilingual newspaper (German/Czech) published in Prague from November 1939 to January 1945. It was published during the time of the Protectorate of Böhmen und Mähren and served as the official organ of the Jewish community in Prague and the Zionist organizations. During the first phase (24 November 1939 to 13 September 1940) it was the organ of the Jewish Community and the Zionist Organization in Prague. From September 20, 1940 to February 5, 1943, it functioned exclusively as the organ of the Jewish Community in Prague.

Leo Lewy was born on October 2, 1880 in Memel. His parents were Israel Lewy and Lina Lewy, née Hirschfeld. Leo Lewy was married to Hedwig Erna Thiel, born on June 28, 1896 in Königsberg. Married in 1919 in Königsberg. The marriage was divorced on September 29, 1942 in K nigsberg.

Dr. med. Albrecht Anton Wilmersdörfer, born in Bayreuth in 1899, came to Schönebeck as a young man. After the early death of his first wife Tina, he married a second time in 1930. With his second wife Anna, née Stein, and their son from his first marriage, he fled to Palastina in 1935 to escape Nazi harassment.

Dr. med. Max Jeruchem, born on 18.3.1890 in Lobsens / Posen province.

Dr. Martin Happ was born on January 17, 1886 in Pleschenin the Prussian province of Posen. He studied law at the University of Erlangen. He was admitted to the bar in 1913.   He met his future wife Sophie Bach in Berlin. They married in 1915 and the couple moved back to the province of Posen in Hohensalza. Martin Happ opened his own law firm there. After the Polish Posen Uprising and the Treaty of Versailles the largest part of the province of Posen was transferred to the re-established Republic of Poland in 1919.

Erich Hannach, the youngest son of the entrepreneurial couple Julius and Emmy Hannach, was born on September 25, 1900 in Lissa (province of Poznan). He studied law at the universities of Breslau, Freiburg, Heidelberg and Berlin. He worked as a trainee lawyer in Magdeburg from the end of 1923 and was admitted to the bar in December 1928. His law firm was located at Breiten Weg 42. On May 5, 1933, he was banned from representing clients and in June of the same year his name was removed from the lists of licensed lawyers at the Magdeburg district and regional courts. On November 10, 1938, Dr.

Dr. Arthur Pick was born in Vienna on December 6, 1871. His parents were the businessman Dr. Sigismund Pick and Ottilie Pick, née Bernstein. Arthur Pick's childhood/youth was characterized by several moves with the family. He spent the first six years in Vienna, then attended elementary school in Sandbach (Cheshire), England, and finally grammar school in Gliwice, before going on to study medicine at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, Munich and Heidelberg.