Isaak Wohlgemuth

Isaak enjoyed the fruits of Jewish integration into German culture, rising from shtetl roots in Preus. Stargardt to make a success as a mill owner in Elbing and later to co-own with his brother Julius a freight and moving company in Danzig. Isaak, his wife Betty and two daughters prospered in Danzig, assuming more of a cultural than religious Jewish lifestyle. In 1911, the Wohlgemuth brothers sold the moving business and Isaak took his family to Berlin, where they may have resided in Weißensee district. Isaak died in 1929, on the cusp of the Nazi devastation, still believing in the greatness of the German-Jewish ideal.