According to information of their descendants, the master builder Martin Rietsch (09.11.1869 - 23.06.1952) was born in Göritz, district of Schleiz, and came to Greiz after his studies. He lived in Dölau, which was suburbanized to Greiz in 1922, and worked throughout his life as an independent master builder in this region.

The architect and construction engineer Arthur Weder (15.09.1879 - 02.11.1938) was born in Ebersbach, district of Löbau, and went in 1906 after his studies in Dresden to Greiz. Pursuant the address book of Greiz, he lived in one of the apartments of the Art Deco house after its building completion. By the end of the First World War Weder moved in 1918 to Berlin and built as an salaried architect some larger buildings for Deutsche Industrie-Werke and the state railway ministry. When his father-in-law Carl Weber died in 1930, he returned to Greiz and took over whose construction company.

Their joint company Rietsch & Weder existed only a relatively short time. In Greiz it was occupied with building construction in the years 1911 and 1912. A vague assumption is, that at least one of the two company owners visited Paris in 1910, took up there the mental currents of the later Art Deco artists, and then let them take shape with the building introduced here.

The four apartments of the Art Deco house are of an exceptionally attractive and functional layout. The double oriel gives the rooms an interesting, lovely radiation. Already while erected the house obtained generous bathrooms within the apartments and spacious balconies. The stairwell with steps of terrazzo is wide and flooded with natural light.

Pursuant the address book of Greiz, the company Rietsch & Weder initially remained the owner of the Art Deco house after its completion. Possibly its style (trapezoidal tower, double oriel, ornamentation) appeared the contemporaries so strange, that the building - persumably erected for speculation - firstly did not find a buyer.