In the summer of 2023, our association member Friederike Fechner visited both Leonhard Tietz’s granddaughter Vera Peck (daughter of Gerhard Tietz and his wife Bella Tietz née Schuty), who is over 90 years old, and her great-granddaughter Kay Graham (daughter of Luise Tietz and her husband Oskar Eliel) in London and brought them the novel…Continue readingVisit to Tietz ancestors – Remembering Leonhard Tietz
After the publishing of his book “The Kaiser, Hitler and the Jewish Department Store”, the historian and heraldist Dr. John F. Müller contacted our association. He was looking for a place to store all the materials he had researched and acquired in connection with his book. We quickly came to an agreement and he donated…Continue readingArchive of Dr. John F. Müller arrived
Especially against the background of the Signa Group’s decline, it is interesting to look at the past. And so we are often asked for literature on the department stores and the founding families. We are happy to list the books that are also part of our association’s collection: The three small-format books by Nils Busch-Petersen…Continue readingLiterature on Wertheim, Tietz & Co.
We would like to wish all association members, cooperation partners, and interested parties a happy festive season and a good start to 2024. Many people also like to spend the Christmas season visiting Christmas markets. During our visit to the Christmas market in Magdeburg, the Karstadt department store also blended into the bright city center.…Continue readingHappy holidays
The series of novels about the Tietz family and their department stores is now complete, three books have been published by “Aufbau Taschenbuch”. The important thing is that the facts are correct. The author Andreas Schmidt (Susanne von Berg is his pseudonym) has composed a story around them that allows you to feel the time…Continue readingSeries of novels about the Tietz family completed
The multimedia audio tour on Jewish life and work in Stralsund has been migrated to the successful German platform “SmartGuide”. This means that this tour is linked to the platform’s other information offerings as well as to other Stralsund tours. To use the tour, the SmartGuide app must be installed on one’s smartphone. The tour…Continue readingTour on Jewish life and work in Stralsund migrated
At its location at Stadtbahnbogen 424, 10557 Berlin, the Buchstabenmuseum will be showing the exhibition “FINAL SALE – VOM KAUFHAUS INS MUSEUM” from February 25 to September 17, 2023. The exhibition tells the typographic and city-historical stories of the letters and shows the former importance of the department stores and department stores with their architecture.…Continue readingExhibit for exhibition “Finale Sale
The two advertising stamps depict the department store opened on September 15, 1913 at Ludwigstrasse 24 in Nuremberg, H. Tietz & Co. Nachf. Hermann and Oscar Tietz founded the first department store in northern Bavaria in Nuremberg on March 30, 1886. At the end of 1905, they sold their department store to the entrepreneur Ludwig…Continue readingAdvertising stamps acquired for collection
Starting in March 2023, the Berlin publishing house “Aufbau Taschenbuch” will launch a series of novels about the Tietz family and their department stores. The story of the first volume, “Kaufhaus – Zeit der Sehnsucht” (“Department Store – Time of Desire”), begins in Stralsund in 1879, when the young seamstress Flora and her fiancé Leonhard…Continue readingSeries of novels about the Tietz family published by Aufbau Verlag
On December 15, 2022, the “Cultural Concept STRALSUND 2034” was unanimously adopted by the city council of Stralsund. Our association was involved in the creation of the concept. The cultural concept contains five fields of action. The “Field of Action 1 – The Foundation: Cultural Heritage and Museums” also includes the development of the museums.…Continue readingCultural Concept Stralsund 2034