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The Friedlaender & Wertheim bank was initially founded in 1919 as a branch of the Hamburg private bank E. Calmann, but then operated independently from 1923 onwards.

Isidor Maximilian Groedel was born in Friedberg on May 23, 1850. After attending grammar school in Darmstadt, he studied at the state university in Gieäen and became a member of the Alemannia fraternity. During the 1870/71 war, he did medical service in the auxiliary hospital in his home town of Bad Nauheim. After studying medicine, his career took him to Würzburg as a military doctor and to Vienna for further training before he opened his own practice in Bad Nauheim in 1875. In 1887/1888 he acquired the property at Terrassenstra<e 2.

The address book of the city of Nürnberg from 1922 contains the following entry: Krailsheimer, Dr. Hans, Rechtsanwalt, Steingbühler Str.9, - Kanzlei Luitpoldstr.16.  -  Hans Krailsheimer was born in Nürnberg on January 29, 1888. After studying law in Geneva, Munich, Berlin and Würzburg, he obtained his doctorate in Erlangen in 1017 and was admitted to the bar. He subsequently worked primarily as an in-house lawyer for business associations.

Due to the professional ban on Jewish lawyers in Bavaria in December 1938, the Nürnberg Bar Association, office: Nürnberg, Fürther Straße 110 by order  of the President of the Nürnberg Bar Association  43 Jewish lawyers resigned, including Dr. Franz Bergmann, because their license had been revoked.

In the Berlin address book - 1928 edition, the following information can be found in the list of residents: Mendelsohn Martin, Professor, Dr.med, prakt. Physician, doctor for heart patients, W15, Kurfürstendamm No. 40,41 I. - Tel. Bism. 5306. 10-11, 4-5. 

In the 1910 edition of the Berlin address book, the following entry can be found under the address Bleibtreustraße 35/36: Palästina-Industrie-Syndikat m.b.H. - Pogroms against the Jewish population in 1880/1881 were probably partly responsible for the fact that in many places in Russia, Rumania and Galicia, and to a lesser extent also in Poland, Germany and England, groups of the " Chowewe Zion " (Friends of Zion) were formed, from among whom a number of students decided to make aliyah (ascent to the land of Israel), went to Palestine and founded agricultural settlements there.

The Berlin address book - 1909 edition contains the following entry: Bab, Hans, Dr. med., gynecologist, former assistant at the women's clinic of the Charité, Charlottenburg, Knesebeckstr.72.73 pt. - The address book of the city of Munich in 1938 contains the following entry: Bad Hans, Dr. Facharzt für Frauenkrankheiten, Leopoldstra<e 42: - 3 -- 7 1/2, Mon. and Fri. 3 -- 8, ( mornings by appointment ).   -   In 1938 Dr. Hans Bab was taken into so-called " protective custody " for 12 weeks on charges of racial defilement. According to the Stürmer ", Dr.

The address book for Munich from 1905 contains the following entry: Rothschild II Hugo, Rechtsanwalt  Kanzlei und Wohnung Schützenstraße 2/1. - Hugo Rothschild was born in Munich on February 15, 1875. His parents were Gustav Rothschild, a Jewish private teacher born in Goßmannsdorf in 1848, and Bertha Rothschild, née Fleischmann. Gustav Rothschild died at the young age of 27 - Hugo Rothschild was two months old at the time. Hugo Rothschild spent his childhood in Baiersdorf and attended the Fridericianum, a humanistic grammar school in Erlangen, after elementary school.

Else Lang (born on 05.04.1884 in Suhl) married Julius von der Wall, who was born on Norderney on 22.09.1872. He obtained his doctorate in law in 1901, passed the bar exam in 1902 and was a notary and lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Celle from 1903. For a long time, he was the only Jewish lawyer admitted to this court. Their daughter Eva was born in 1908. In 1911, the family had the residential and commercial building at Mühlenstr. 25 planned and built.

Dr. Richard Katzenstein (1878-1942) had been president of the senate (equivalent to a present-day chairman of the senate) at the Higher Regional Court of Celle since 1929. In 1933, the then president of the Higher Regional Court pleaded with the Prussian Ministry of Justice for his removal, or alternatively his transfer to a district court as a simple judge, because the people of Celle could not stand a Jewish chairman of the senate. Katzenstein was then initially transferred to the Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg district court.