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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.

In the Berlin address book 1917 the following entry is found: Sonnenfeld Kurt, Dr. jur., Rechtsanw. b. Landgericht I.  S.W.68, Wohn. W.50 - Ansbacher Str. 37 -  Dr. Kurt Sonnenfeld was born on April 12, 1892 in Berlin. When the National Socialists came to power, Dr. Kurt Sonnenfeld was also banned from practicing medicine. In the years 1933 - 1938 Dr. Kurt Sonnenfeld was a representative of Allianz and Stuttgarter Versicherung. Alternatively, he sought other professional employment opportunities. In 1937 he passed the examination to become a state-certified masseur.

Otto Thalmessinger saw the light of day in Ulm in 1872. His parents were the banker Nathan Thalmessinger and Jette Thalmessinger, née Steiner. Otto Thalmessinger was admitted to the bar in Stuttgart in 1899. In the same year, the above envelope already documents the existence of the law firm of Dr. Steiner, Widmaier and Thalmessinger. In the Stuttgart address book of 1900, the following entry is found in the directory of lawyers. Thalmessinger, Otto ( Dr. Steiner, Widmaier and Thalmessinger ). Königstr.

Julius Kahn was born in Arheiligen on February 8, 1845. He was married to Anna Kahn, born on June 16, 1846. The couple had two sons -  Ernst Kahn (1881-1898) and Otto Kahn (1872–1937).

The banking house Julius Kahn & Co was founded in Pforzheim in 1864. It was taken over in the years from 1906 by the Rheinische Creditbank übern and went über further mergers in the period to 1929 finally in the Deutsche Bank.