 The primary employer was the "Bremer Woll-Wäscherei" ("Bremen Wool Laundry"), founded in 1872/73 and located opposite Burg station, which was bought up by the "Bremer Woll-Kämmerei" and decommissioned in 1927.Towards the end of the Weimar Republic, during the period of mass unemployment which followed the crash of 1929, her husband became known entirely as a doctor for the poor and Martha Goldberg started up her "private social care" and her "soup kitchen" again.Martha and Adolph Goldberg had three children, born towards the end of the 1890s