Its holdings included the largest department store in Frankfurt before World War II.

[1] Company founder Hermann Wronker was born on 5 August 1867 in eastern Prussia.

[2] He started businesses at a young age, opening stores in Bamberg and Coburg, and in 1887 in Mannheim founded S. Wronker & Co. with his elder brother Simon.

Hermann left Mannheim in 1891 to found a branch of the business in Frankfurt am Main.

While some members of the family emigrated out of Germany, Hermann Wronker was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.