Also living near Schillerplatz were several other Jews, namely Leo Glaser (owner of the perfume company "Haliflor" and, between 1924 and 1928, president of the Mecklenburg Chamber of Commerce in Rostock), Prof. David Katz and (1885–1976; pioneers of psychology at Rostock's University), Friedrich Rubensohn (lawyer), Richard Josephy (1890-1944; lawyer), and Franz Josephy (1893-1944, Auschwitz; lawyer), who had worked in Rostock, the venue of Mecklenburg's main courthouses.