The story
The Homburger family was one of the oldest Jewish families in Karlsruhe. The first ancestor of the bank's founder, who was allowed to settle in Karlsruhe in 1722, was Löw from Homburg am Main, called Löw Homburger. Veit Löw Homburger (1810-1878) founded the bank in 1854 when he separated from his two brothers, with whom he ran his father's banking and exchange business. The two brothers Victor Veit Homburger (October 2, 1888 - May 31, 1968) and Paul Homburger (September 12, 1882 - May 19, 1965) each founded their own banks.
Between 1899 and 1901, the architects Curjel & Moser built a new listed building for the Veit L. Homburger bank at Karlstraße 9–11 on the corner of Akademiestraße. The sculptor Oskar Kiefer created the architectural decoration.
The writer Carl Einstein was apprenticed to the Homburger company around 1904.
From Wikipedia’s article on Bankhaus Veit L. Homburger, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3