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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.

In 1910, the building at Mohrenstrasse 34 was acquired by Bank für Thüringen AG, formerly Bankhaus B. M. Strupp, headquartered in Meiningen. Five years earlier, the brothers Gustav, Meinhard and Louis Strupp had transformed the family business, founded in 1742, into the public limited company Bank für Thüringen“. From 1920, business premises were also located in the adjacent property at Mohrenstra<e 36. In 1926, the „Bank für Thüringen“ was taken over by today's Deutsche Bank. Finally, the National Socialists deleted the bank from the commercial register in 1940.

The port city of Hamburg was one of the central port cities for emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries. More than five million Jews left their homes in Eastern Europe from 1881 onwards. They fled from pogroms, miserable living conditions and restrictive laws. They arrived in Hamburg by train to embark for the sea. For most of them, the USA became their new home. When the outbreak of cholera in Hamburg in August 1892 led to persistent rumors that the disease had been brought in by the immigrants, travelers from Russia and Austria-Hungary were banned from entering the city.

The address book of the city of Berlin from 1875 contains the following entry: Lövinsohn M., Dr. med. Physician, wound specialist and obstetrician, Potsdamer Str. 112.

Justice councillor Dr. Albert Teutsch ran a law firm with his son Dr. Hans Teutsch in Nuremberg at Karolinenstrasse 38. Albert Teutsch was married to Johanna Teutsch, née Gerson, born in Nürnberg on November 8, 1873. She was a committed member of the IKG (Jewish Community of Nürnberg) and sang one of the alto parts in the synagogue choir. She emigrated to the USA in 1939. Albert Teutsch died in Nürnberg in August 1932. His son Dr. jur. Hans Teutsch founded a law firm for commercial law together with Dr. jur. Fritz (Fred) Blum at Königstr.33-37.

After the departure in 1928 of the long-serving president of the Jewish Community of Graz, founded in 1869, Kommerzialrat Simon Rendi, in 1928, he was replaced by lawyer Dr. Robert Sonnenwald. Dr. Robert Sonnenwald emigrated abroad in 1938.

The address book of the city of Stuttgart from 1922 contains the following entry: Gumbel Sigmund, Dr., Rechtsanwalt, Keplerstr. 29. I - Büro Königstr.25. 2.  - Siegmund Gumbel was born in Heilbronn on September 8, 1867. His parents were the Heilbronn banker Isaak Gumbel and his wife Gueta, née Stern. Siegmund Gumbel was admitted to the Heilbronn District Court in 1898. After moving to Stuttgart in 1913, he was admitted to the bar there in 1914. He was appointed notary public in 1926. Siegmund Gumbel had a son, Walter, born in Heilbronn in 1903. In 1929, Dr.

Dr. Leo Heidenheimer was born on May 3, 1886 in Nuremberg, the son of a merchant. He studied in Munich, Geneva, Berlin and Erlangen. He successfully completed his law studies in Erlangen in 1911 with the award of a Dr. jur. In 1912, he was admitted to the bar at the Higher Regional Court and District Court of Nürnberg-Fürth. Leo Heidenheimer was a decorated and wounded front-line officer, but this did not prevent him from being expelled from the Nürnberg Bar Association in 1938 or from being sent to Dachau concentration camp from November 12, 1938 to December 21, 1938.