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Dr. Alfred Haas was born on December 19, 1878 in St. Ingbert. His  parents were Julius Haas and Clara, née Weisenbeck. From 1897 he studied at the University of Munich and became a doctor of medicine in 1902. Until 1904, he worked as a surgical assistant in Saarbrücken and Paderborn. He then worked as an assistant in the surgery and orthopaedics departments of the municipal hospital in Cologne. From 1907 he maintained a private surgical practice in Munich. In 1909 he married Elsa Schülein, a daughter of the brewery owner Joseph Schülein and Ida Schülein, née Baer from Oberdorf am Ipf.

Lothar Conitzer, born in West Prussia in 1865, came from a wealthy merchant family and was therefore able to study medicine. He ran a successful medical practice in Hamburg, lived with his wife Frieda and three children in comfortable circumstances and was fond of art and society. Due to anti-Semitic laws, he lost his livelihood from 1935, had to flee in 1938 and ended up destitute in Cape Town, where he and his wife died in 1947.

Mane Weinberg was born in 1881 in Tukums, Latvia. He studied medicine and served as a soldier in the German army during the First World War, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross II Class. After completing his doctorate in 1918, he became an assistant doctor at Dr. Rosell's sanatorium in Ballenstedt. He later opened his own neurological practice in Ballenstedt, which he moved to Quedlinburg in the 1920s. Dr. Weinberg came from a Jewish family, but had converted to the Protestant faith. He was married to Helene, née Fessel, and had two daughters with her.

The Dortmund address book from 1912 contains the following entry: Frank I Max, lawyer, apartment: Göbenstr. 24, office: Ostenhellweg 50, F. 3231. -  Dr. Max Frank was born in Hameln on 14 November 1870. He came from a middle-class Jewish family. His father was a grain merchant and banker. After leaving school, Max Frank studied law. He was admitted to the bar in August 1898. At the turn of the century, Max Frank moved to Dortmund and practiced as a lawyer there. The first law offices are documented in 1901 at Kaiserstra e 26. On May 28, 1901, he married Margarete Elias.

The Jewish-German dentist couple Curt and Hildegard Jacobi (Halberstädter Str. 5) survived Nazi persecution in Bremen.

The Intime Theater was opened in 1910 by Franz Würffel. In September 1921, Anton Herrnfeld took over the venue from the Herrnfeld Theater and began performing his own programs there. At that time, the theater had 300 seats. However, as Anton Herrnfeld was no longer able to build on his earlier successes, he also went on tour with his ensemble. From 1925, the  1925 Concordia-Lichtspiele with the owner Joseph Gutkind were located there. Anton Herrnfeld died in 1929 as a result of a stroke.

Ferdinand Eduard Schwarzschild was born on May 12, 1843 in Frankfurt am Main. His parents were Enoch Schwarzschild, born on June 13, 1805 in Frankfurt am Main and Rosine Schwarzschild, née Ochs, born on December 30, 1814 in Frankfurt am Main. Ferdinand had three more siblings - David Eduard Schwarzschild, born on May 19, 1837, - Maximilian Eduard Schwarzschild, born on July 17, 1839 and Minna Rosette Schwarzschild, married name Scheyer, born on June 15, 1839.

Jacob Myszkinow (born 1895 in Białystok) had lived in Sebnitz since March 1921. In the Sebnitz address books of 1925 and 1934, he was listed as a trader and was registered at Kreuzstraß 23. He was married to the non-Jewish Elisabeth Myszkinow (née Richter). According to the 1940 Sebnitz address book, she worked as a flower worker. Jacob Myszkinow was not listed in the same address book.

From: https://gedenkplaetze.info/juedische-geschichte/jacob-myszkinow

Albert Ballin (born August 15 1857 in Hamburg; died November 9 1918) was a German shipowner and one of the most important German personalities during the time of the German Empire. As General Director, he made the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) the largest shipping line in the world.

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.