Josef Mittel

Josef Mittel

Streugasse-44

Owner 1932: Josef Mittel

Josef Mittel (1888) acquired the property with the vinegar factory as dowry of his wife Fanny (1891) Liebenthal. Her uncle Hermann (1855-1910) bought the vinegar factory from Heinemann and Sophie Rose in 1897 at the price of 12000 Mark, because they had moved to Meiningen. Josef Mittel managed the business together with his brother Theo, who lived in the main street no. 108. To differentiate this family from the many other Mittel families they have been called Essig (=vinegar)-Mittel.

Besides the fabrication of vinegar also spirits and liqueurs have been produced as is shown in the advertisement.  After the brothers left Unsleben 1939 via Havanna to the USA the business was taken over by the Fa. Hügelschäfer, Sommerhausen, which carried on the production. Josef Mittel together with his wife had four children: Ruth, Käte, Edith and Günther.  Ruth went to Rio, Käte to Palestine and Edith and Günther emigrated with their parents via Havanna to the USA. Edith made sculptures. At a meeting she told, that during the night of the pogrom she hided in the hay loft. Her father has been hidden by his workers in an empty wine barrel. The recipes for the liqueurs have not been transferred to Hügelschäfer by her father and uncle.

 

 

Emanuel Mittel

Emanuel Mittel

Streugasse-74

Owner 1932: Emanuel Mittel

Emanuel Mittel(1869) was a cattle trader. He emigrated with his wife Rinetta(1875), son Rudolf(1906) and daughter Hannelore(1922) in 1939 to the USA via Havanna.

In the same home lived Selli Mittel(1903), a tradesman, with his wife Martha(1910) and children Susie and Herbert(1938). Susie emigrated already in 1934 to the USA.The remaining familiy followed in 1938 via Havanna to the USA.

 

 

Sophie Mittel

Sophie Mittel

Streugasse-42

Owner 1932: Sophie Mittel

Sophie Mittel (1855) was a teacher`s widow, who died in Unsleben in 1935. Her husband (1846) was teacher in the Jewish school of Unsleben from 1868 until 1905. He died in 1915 and has been buried in the Unsleben cemetery, but he grave cannot be found or be identified with certainty. The only child Siegfried already died in 1876 at baby age.