Alemannia Judaica

Sigmund Sahlmann, born on December 15, 1828 in Burghaslach, married to Nanny Sulzbacher from Mühlhausen, ran a hop trading business in Mühlhausen from 1856. In November 1861, he applied for a trading permit and settlement permit in Fürth. In January 1862, the application was granted and Sigmund Sahlmann received permission to trade in agricultural products and to settle in Fürth. He founded the company S. Sahlmann at Friedrichstraße 18, later moving to Gebhardtstraße. In the 1938 trade list of businesses with Jewish owners, Maxstraße 29 is indicated as the company headquarters.

The origins of the pencil factory Leopold Illfelder & Söhne lie in 1856, when Daniel Berolzheimer and Leopold Illfelder already founded the pencil factory Berolzheimer & Illfelder. When Daniel Berolzheimer died in 1859, his son Heinrich Berolzheimer took over his share of the company. Together with Leopold Illfelder, a branch office (Berolzheimer, Illfelder & Co.  or B. Illfelder & Co.) was founded in New York in 1861, later "Illfelder Importing Co" or "Eagle Pencil Co.".

In the Fuerth address book of 1859, the following entry is found - First main district - Alexanderstraße - house number 292a

Neuburger Emil, part-owner of the hop, wool and product shop, Gebrüder Neuburger, - Alexanderstraße 298 - Neuburger Isaak, part-owner of Gebrüder Neuburger, number 292 I,

D. M. Zimmer operated the company "Galanterie- und Spielwaren en gros u. Export D. M. Zimmer".