Lange Herzogstraße 35, Daniel department store
Boycotts were used in the 1930s as a targeted measure to drive the Jewish population to economic ruin. Two months after Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, a boycott campaign took place throughout the Reich on April 1, 1933: Uniformed men posted themselves in front of entrances to Jewish stores, distributed leaflets and tried to deter customers from entering the stores. According to the announcement, fisticuffs were to be avoided and the safety of Jewish business owners was to be preserved.
The Wolfenbüttel theologian and historian Dietrich Kuessner describes the following in a speech:
"In Wolfenbüttel, Jewish business owners did not rely on such assurances and did not open their stores at all. [...] The party launched a second public anti-Semitic wave in the summer of 1935, which no one was able to escape. After a conspicuous number of inflammatory articles in the press, it had large signs erected at the exits of towns and also at crossroads and traffic junctions in the towns with vile threats such as "Jews unwanted" or "Jews enter the town at their own risk" or: "Rebekka pack your bags" and "Moses emigrate"."
The local press also published a detailed report including a list of all remaining Jewish businesses. Among those listed was Hermann Daniel's textile business. For years, his "House of Quality Goods" was an important shopping address, he organized fashion shows and brought Berlin artists to the provincial town of Wolfenbüttel. The boycotts continued, customers were photographed, harassed and put under pressure until Hermann Daniel could no longer maintain his business.
In July 1938, Willi Sparmann announced that he had acquired the business with the approval of "official and party authorities" and would now continue to run it under "Aryan management".
Hermann Daniel's life ended in the Sobibor extermination camp.
Boycotts were used in the 1930s as a targeted measure to drive the Jewish population to economic ruin. Two months after Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, a boycott campaign took place throughout the Reich on April 1, 1933: Uniformed men posted themselves in front of entrances to Jewish stores, distributed leaflets and tried to deter customers from entering the stores. According to the announcement, fisticuffs were to be avoided and the safety of Jewish business owners was to be preserved.
The Wolfenbüttel theologian and historian Dietrich Kuessner describes the following in a speech:
"In Wolfenbüttel, Jewish business owners did not rely on such assurances and did not open their stores at all. [...] The party launched a second public anti-Semitic wave in the summer of 1935, which no one was able to escape. After a conspicuous number of inflammatory articles in the press, it had large signs erected at the exits of towns and also at crossroads and traffic junctions in the towns with vile threats such as "Jews unwanted" or "Jews enter the town at their own risk" or: "Rebekka pack your bags" and "Moses emigrate"."
The local press also published a detailed report including a list of all remaining Jewish businesses. Among those listed was Hermann Daniel's textile business. For years, his "House of Quality Goods" was an important shopping address, he organized fashion shows and brought Berlin artists to the provincial town of Wolfenbüttel. The boycotts continued, customers were photographed, harassed and put under pressure until Hermann Daniel could no longer maintain his business.
In July 1938, Willi Sparmann announced that he had acquired the business with the approval of "official and party authorities" and would now continue to run it under "Aryan management".
Hermann Daniel's life ended in the Sobibor extermination camp.
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Stadt Wolfenbüttel / Abteilung 412
Ms. Lena Simon
Löwentor, Löwenstraße 1
38300 Wolfenbüttel
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Lessingstadt Wolfenbüttel
Stadtmarkt 3-6
38300 Wolfenbüttel
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