1932  Anschel & Co.,  is formed in Berlin, Germany

 1919-1933        the Weimar Republic comes to an end

Although the constitution of 1919 was never officially repealed, the legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and March 1933, commonly known as Gleichschaltung ("coordination") meant that the government could legislate contrary to the constitution. The constitution became irrelevant, therefore 1933 is usually seen as the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of Hitler's "Third Reich".

Jan 30, 1933- Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.

The Third Reich (Drittes Reich) denotes the Nazi State as the historical successor to the mediæval Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) and to the modern German Empire (1871–1918). Nazi Germany had two official names, the Deutsches Reich (German Reich), from 1933 to 1943, when it became Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich).

Apr 7, 1933 -  Laws for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service & Law Regarding Admission to the Bar are passed

Apr 25, 1933 - Law Against the Crowding of German Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning are passed

Sep 15, 1935 -  Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor , the Reich Citizenship Law and the First Decree to the Reich Citizenship Law

Government agencies at all levels aimed to exclude Jews from the economic sphere of Germany. Jews were prevented from earning a living. Jews were required to register their domestic and foreign property and assets, a prelude to the gradual expropriation of their material wealth by the state.   Likewise, the German authorities intended to "Aryanize" all Jewish businesses, a process involving the dismissal of Jewish workers and managers, as well as the transfer of companies and enterprises to non-Jewish Germans, who bought them at prices officially fixed well below market value.  From April 1933 to April 1938, "Aryanization" effectively reduced the number of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany by approximately two-thirds.

Jan 14, 1937 - Gertrud Anschel Leyser and Ernest Falkenburg reincorporate Anschel & Co. in Berlin

Jan 27, 1937 - Anschel & Co.'s  New incorporation is Recorded under Registry number 84116

Oct 3, 1938 - German Government forced the sale of Anschel & Co. at below-market prices

May 12, 1939 - Clotilde Therese Jancourt flees to London as Refugee from Nazi persecution

Sep 01,1939 - Germany invades Poland; Britain and France deliver an ultimatum

Sep 03-1939 - Great Britain and France declare war on Germany; World War II has begun

Feb 27, 1940 - Ernest Falkenburg flees to the Netherlands

May 01,1941 - Ernest Falkenburg leaves the Netherlands to Belgium, to France, to Spain

Jul 02,1941 - Ernest Falkenburg sails from Bilbao Spain aboard M/V "Marques de Comillas"

Jul 16, 1941 - Ernest Falkenburg arrives in Havana Cuba

May 7, 1945 World War II ends

1945   Allied-occupied Germany Follows the Third Reich

The Allied powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during the period 1945–1949.

Summer 1945 - Five American-based Jewish groups formed a committee to represent Jewish interests in reparations and restitution negotiations.

Mar 31, 1946 - The Jewish restitution Successor organization, referred to as JRSO, was designated as successor to heirless and unclaimed property.

Fall 1946 - General Clay (Deputy Governor of Germany during the Allied Military Government), met with representatives of the JRSO and the Commission on European Jewish Reconstruction and agreed to support their idea of creating an organization that had as its aim the claiming of heirless Jewish property and assets.

May 15, 1947 - The Jewish Restitution Successor organization (JRSO) was incorporated under the New York State membership corporation law.    It served as an umbrella for seven organizations. The group of seven organizations was soon expanded by including the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany and the Agudat Israel World Organization; all in an attempt to broaden its representation.

Nov 10, 1947 - The JRSO was designated by the USMG (United States Military Government)  as the successor organization contemplated by Military Government law No. 59 (Law No. 59 Restitution of Identifiable Property).

Jun 12, 1948 - President Eisenhower designated the JRSO (under Public Law 626) as the Successor Organization for Heirless and Unclaimed Properties of Jewish Victims of Nazi Persecution which were seized during World War II by the office of Alien property.

Aug 04, 1948 - At the request of the American military authorities, the  ‘JEWISH RESTITUTION COMMISSION’  (JRC)  changed their legal name to 'JEWISH RESTITUTION SUCCESSOR ORGANIZATION' (JRSO)

Aug 18, 1948 - Task of locating heirless properties left by Jews who died in Germany was delegated by OMGUS directive AG010.6 (PD) to the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (RSO), a New York Corporation.  -- (from NYS Department of State Division of Corporation)

Dec 22,1948 - Ernest Falkenburg files 1st Restitution Claim with Magistrat der Stadt Berlin

May 22, 1949    Federal Republic of Germany is formed as a Federal Parliamentary Republic

May 11, 1951 - The Gesetz zur Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts im öffentlichen Dienst (BWGöD) for (former) employees of public service institutions law was passsed.

Sep 01, 1951 - Nahum Goldmann, Chrmn. of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency. convened a meeting  in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with 23 major Jewish national and international organizations to address the task of negotiating an agreement with the West German government for the reparations of Jews with respect to losses caused by Germany through the Holocaust.  -- The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (also known as the Claims Conference) was the organization that emerged from this meeting.

Sep 27,1951 - Conrad Adenauer publicly stated in a speech that Germany accepted responsibility for the Nazi crimes against the Jews

Dec 06, 1951 - Bonn announced that it was prepared to negotiate the question of restitution with the Government of Israel and leaders of the World Jewish Congress.

Sep 10, 1952 - After six months of negotiations, The Luxembourg Agreement of September 1952 was signed by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett and World Jewish Congress President Nahum Goldmann.

Oct 02, 1952 - Ernest Falkenburg files 2nd Restitution Claim with German Consulate

Oct 10, 1952 - The German Government created a restitution claim file ( Entschädigungsamt no. 58930 ) based on Ernest Falkenburg's 1952 claim

Nov 21, 1952      THE CONFERENCE ON JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY, INC. filed for incorporation (Initial NYS Dept of State Filing Date)

Sep 18, 1953 - The first law for the restitution of private persons passed.  Named the Bundesergänzungsgesetz zur Entschädigung für Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung (BErG).  by the government of West Germany as a result of agreements with the Claims Conference.   This law encompasses three separate German laws that were adopted in 1953,

1956 and 1965 that provided for compensation to Holocaust survivors.  The BErG/BEG deals with compensatory payments for suffered personal damage.  Both the BEG and the BEG-SG became effective retroactively as per October 1, 1953.  the term for filing claims under the BEG expired on December 31, 1969.  This law encompasses three separate German laws that were adopted in 1953, 1956 and 1965 that provided for compensation to Holocaust survivors.  Germany passed and adopted the first law for the restitution of private persons was the Bundesergänzungsgesetz zur Entschädigung für Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung (BErG) of September 18, 1953

Oct 01, 1953 - The BEG-SG was a modification of the BEG.  It was modified as the Bundesentschädigungsschlussgesetz (BEG-SG) of September 14, 1965. Both the BEG and the BEG-SG became effective retroactively as per October 1, 1953.

Nov 15, 1953 - Ernest Falkenburg files a follow-up 3rd Restitution Claim with German Consulate

Aug 05, 1955 - Pursuant to the Paris Convention of October 23, 1954, the United States Court of Restitution Appeals was succeeded by the Supreme Restitution Court Third Division, on August 5, 1955.

Jun 29, 1956 - Germany passed and adopted the 2nd law (BEG) Bundesgesetz zur Entschädigung für Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung (BEG)

Jul 19, 1957 - Bonn enacted the BRÜG law in July 1957 to provide compensation for movable property stolen by the Nazis, which the claimant could identify but could no longer locate. This mainly involved household goods, bank accounts, jewelry, and securities. The BRÜG was steadily expanded with the latest change in December 1994 to include property stolen in the former communist-controlled East Germany.   The BRüG (Bundesgesetz zur Regelung der rückerstattungsrechtlichen Geldverbindlichkeiten des Deutschen Reiches und gleichgestellter Rechtsträger (Bundesrückerstattungsgesetz, BRüG)

Nov 24,1957 - Gertrud Anschel Leyser passes away in Quito, Ecuador.

Oct 16, 1958 - Ernest Falkenburg files a follow-up 4th Restitution Claim with German Consulate

Mar 10, 1962 - Germany denied the claim (10 years later), for two reasons: [1] The claim should have been submitted by both shareholders jointly, and,  [2] the company was situated in the Eastern part of Berlin, i.e. outside the legislation of the Federal Republic.

Mar 10,1962 - The German Government denied the claim for two reasons: the company was situated in the Eastern part of Berlin and the claim should have been submitted by both shareholders jointly. (apparently no one could figure out how to pay out 50%) In September of 1990 Germany passed a law called the Claims Law or Vermoegensgesetz which permitted claims to be filed for property lost in the former territory of East Germany.

Sep 23, 1990 - The VermG (Law on the Settlement of Open Property Issues )was passed on 09/23/1990 and in the context of German Reunification between both German States became federal law on 08/31/1990.

Oct 01, 1990 - October 1, 1990, all Four-Power rights in Germany and Berlin ended when representatives of the four victorious countries in World War II signed a document in New York recognizing full German sovereignty.

Dec 31, 1992 - The deadline for filing real estate claims for assets located  in the territory of the former East Germany

Jun 30, 1993 - The deadline for filing  moveable assets claims for assets located in the territory of the former East Germany expired

During 1993  -  (31years later), the Claims Conference submitted a new claim and the LAROV [Landesamt zur Regelung offener Vermögensfragen]  (State office for unsettled property questions) opened a new claim file regarding the Anschel & Co claim. The file was opened because JCC submitted a claim.  Later all claims connected with Jewish property were handled by LAROV in two stages: [1] The Neubrandenburg office created a file: ( file Number C 4 - S04 - 1 U 2089/03) and checked whether the claim was justified. [2] , Another office in Berlin calculated the amount of compensation and this is the C 3 file reference number we have (Claim C3.06-1-10540/03, 5663/03, 8759/03, 11080/03). After the deadlines expired, where claims were not asserted by Jewish beneficiaries or their successors, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany  Claims Conference was designated as the Successor Organization for claims under the Settlement of Property Claims Act.

During 1993  -  The Claims Conference filed a new claim through the LARoV (Landesamt zur Regelung offener Vermögensfragen) (The state office for unsettled property questions) - The LARoV Neubrandenburg office created a file: ( file Number C 4 - S04 - 1 U 2089/03) -- Another office in Berlin calculated the amount of compensation under a new claim ref:  C3.06-1-10540/03, 5663/03, 8759/03, 11080/03).

Sep 27, 1994 - The NS-Verfolgtenentschädigungsgesetz (NS-VEntschG) - Compensation for Persons subjected to Nazi Persecution Act  of 27 September 1994 Passed -- (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2624, 2632).

02-Mar-2000 - Ernest Falkenburg passes away in Miami Beach, FL

Jul 13, 2002 - Rita Forster Anschel passes away in Quito Ecuador

During 2004 - The Compensation for Persons subjected to Nazi Persecution Act came into force after German unification.