Schocken Department Stores ( Kaufhaus Schocken ) was a chain of department stores in Germany before World War II .
3-577: The company was founded by Simon Schocken (1874–1929) and Salman Schocken (1877–1959). After Simon had married into the owner family of Warenhaus Ury Gebrüder in Leipzig , the two brothers enlarged the business to a chain by establishing a second department store in Zwickau . In 1930, the company (named I. Schocken Sons since 1907) had become the fourth largest department store company in Germany with 20 stores. After
6-461: The death of Simon Schocken in a car crash in 1929, his brother was sole owner. The most famous stores are the ones in Nuremberg (Aufseßplatz) (built 1925/26, demolished), Stuttgart (→ Schocken Stuttgart , 1926–28, demolished 1960) and Chemnitz (1927–30) designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn . All three can be seen as milestones in modern architecture. After the rise of Nazism , Salman Schocken
9-520: Was forced to sell his department stores to the Merkur AG (so-called " Aryanisation "). After the war, Schocken sold his regained share of the company (51%) to Helmut Horten GmbH, which later became part of Kaufhof and is currently owned by Metro . In 1931, Salman Schocken founded his own publishing house (later Schocken Books ) which published books in German and Hebrew . It later moved to Palestine and
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