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'''Wertheim''' department stores is one of the largest retail chains in [[Germany]]. It was founded by [[Georg Wertheim]].
The chain's most famous store, on Leipziger Platz in Berlin, was constructed in 1896. It featured 83 elevators and a glass-roofed atrium, and was one of the three largest department stores (''Kaufhäuser'') in Berlin, the others being [[Hermann Tietz]] and [[Kaufhaus des Westens]]. Brian Ladd called it “the crown jewel of the main shopping street." [http://www.policyreview.org/apr01/matus.html]
The company was subjected to the Nazi [[Aryanization]] policies in the [[1930s]]. The Wertheim family attempted to avoid losing control of the company by making Georg's wife, Ursula, the principal shareholder, since she was considered "Aryan" under Nazi law.
==External links==
* [http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/archives_articles.jsp?id=192759 Timeline]
The chain's most famous store, on Leipziger Platz in Berlin, was constructed in 1896. It featured 83 elevators and a glass-roofed atrium, and was one of the three largest department stores (''Kaufhäuser'') in Berlin, the others being [[Hermann Tietz]] and [[Kaufhaus des Westens]]. Brian Ladd called it “the crown jewel of the main shopping street." [http://www.policyreview.org/apr01/matus.html]
The company was subjected to the Nazi [[Aryanization]] policies in the [[1930s]]. The Wertheim family attempted to avoid losing control of the company by making Georg's wife, Ursula, the principal shareholder, since she was considered "Aryan" under Nazi law.
==External links==
* [http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/archives_articles.jsp?id=192759 Timeline]