Hirschfeld Brothers
Gebr. Hirschfeld is the name of a women's clothing company in Hamburg that was founded on August 14, 1892 by Isidor Hirschfeld (born January 2, 1868 in Kasparus , a village in the Gdansk administrative district in West Prussia , died in Hamburg in 1937 ) and his brother Joseph and Benno Hirschfeld was founded. Johannes Grotjan built her fashion house on Neuer Wall in Hamburg in 1906. There were also other shops in Lübeck , Bremen , Hanover and Leipzig .
Like many other Jewish shops, the Hamburg fashion house on Neuer Wall was devastated during the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938. Shortly afterwards the company was expropriated and sold to the Hamburg businessman Franz Fahning (see also " Aryanization "). Up until then, Fahning had been the first authorized signatory in Haus Hirschfeld and, because of his position and customers in Hamburg's posh mile, was aware of the company's purchase price, and his NSDAP membership was useful to him. From now on the women from the noble district of Blankenese also bought from Fahning and no longer from the Jew Hirschfeld.
Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Benno Hirschfeld was murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp and his son Kurt-Manfred was slain in the Neuengamme concentration camp .
After the Second World War, the property was returned to Benno Hirschfeld's surviving son, Hans Simon Hirschfeld, while Franz Fahning was allowed to continue the business. The Hirschfeld family had to pay burden compensation for the confiscated property , as the tax office argued: "A confiscated property is treated as if it had never been confiscated".
In 1956 Fahning bought back 50% of the property from the Hirschfelds who had survived abroad and continued to operate the business until 1991. In 1991, Fahning applied for a foreclosure auction for the purpose of disputing the property community with the Hirschfeld family. The foreclosure auction of the fashion house was then carried out by the Hamburg auction house Arthur Landjunk, which until 1942 carried out the auction of the property directly in the so-called "dejudicated apartments" on behalf of the Hamburg finance department, which speaks for the functioning of brown rope groups in Hamburg.
During this time, Fahning sold his stake to real estate agent Jürgen Schneider . The Dutch Beright BV was awarded the contract for the entire property. (Hans Simon Hirschfeld later referred to this as the "second expropriation".) Shortly after the auction, it became known that the Dutch company was part of Schneider's corporate empire.
As part of the insolvency proceedings opened against Schneider AG in 1994 , the property became the property of Berliner Pfand und Hypotheken Bank, which then sold it to the HOEST pension fund.