Apartment/Flat

Detmar Schwarz was born in Greiz in 1851 as the son of the Greiz merchant Samuel Schwarz and his wife Elisabeth. In 1876, he founded the company Samuel Schwarz Söhne, Mechanische Weberei together with his brother Max Schwarz. Detmar Schwarz lived in Papiermühlenweg 90 from 1885 at the latest until at least 1892 and then for a short time in Papiermühlenweg 5. In 1894 he resigned from the company to leave Greiz.

In Gartenweg 2 lived since spätestens 1910 Paul Heller with his wife Edwig (née Levi) and their children Emilie (1896) and Hans (1898). Paul Heller was born in 1866 as the son of Moritz and Emilie Heller (née Schwarz, *1838). His mother died in the same year of his birth. In 1895 Paul Heller lived with his father at Bahnhofstra;e 9, in 1898 at Heinrichstra;e 2, from about 1901 to 1905 at Elsterstra;e 30 and in 1908 at Gartenweg 5. After Paul Heller's uncle Max Schwarz died in 1922, Paul Heller and five relatives became owners of the company Samuel Schwarz Sohn.

Jette Cahn, the daughter of the merchant and cord merchant Gustav Cahn and his wife Mina, née Bayer, born in Bayreuth in 1874, had four more siblings - Ludwig (1873), Ernst (1875), Heinrich (1878) and Rosa (1883). Jette Cahn remained single throughout her life. She lived in the house owned by her brother at Richard-Wagner-Strasse 7, where Heinrich Cahn ran a wholesale and retail business in haberdashery, white goods and manufactured goods. Jette Cahn lived on the 1st floor above the business premises. Above her on the 2nd floor was her brother Heinrich.

The Jewish businessman Samuel Schwarz (*26 March 1810) lived with his wife Elisabeth (née Bloch, *1818) since 1873 at the latest in Marienstraße 24 in Greiz and had with her eight children (Laura, Lina, Rosa, Hulda, Agnes, Emilie, Detmar, Max). In 1840 the former wool merchant settled in Greiz together with Ephraim Schulhof and was incorporated in the same year. In 1850 he was accepted into the religious community of Lomnička (Czech Republic).

In 1892, the Villa Samuel Schwarz was built in the Zeulenrodaer Stra;e 8, right next to the company premises of „Samuel Schwarz Söhne, Mechanische Weberei“. The builder was the Jewish merchant Samuel Schwarz, who had settled in Greiz in 1840 and founded a family here.

In the Jüdisches Adressbuch für Groß-Berin edition 1931/1932 the following entry is found - Baruch Philipp, Wilmersdorf, Kaiserallee 47.

Since 1926 at the latest, the Jewish businessman Hans Kramer (*15 September 1893), his wife Hilde Kramer (née Rindskopf, *29 January 1900) and their two children Anneliese and Walter lived at Elsterstraße 7. Before that, Hans Kramer lived with his brother Willy and his father Hugo at Oststraße 50. Hans' mother, Friederike Kramer (née Dalber), lived only a few houses away at Elsterstraße 11a.

In the Oststraße 50 lived since spätestens 1921 the Jewish businessman Willy (Wilhelm) Kramer (*1892) with his wife Luise Kramer (née Wolf) and their three children Gaby, Peter and Hugo. Willy Kramer was a partner and co-owner of the company „Franz Müller & Kramer“ and thus succeeded his father, who had joined the company as such in 1888. In 1937, the family lived at Bismarckstraße 50, to which Oststraße 50 was renamed in 1936.

Between 1921 and 1926 Klara and Max Spaleck moved from Kermannstra;e 2 to number 9. Here was the factory for weaving machines inherited from Max Spaleck and the couple lived in an apartment über the company. On May 15, 1933, Max Spaleck died at the age of 52 after a heart attack. His son Siegfried became the owner of the company at the age of 23 and broke off his engineering studies at the Technical University of Dresden prematurely. Mrs. Spaleck and her two children Siegfried and Elisabeth continued to run the factory.