Genealogy as evidence
One family took root in Halberstadt and Wernigerode. Civil records now connect the two branches through Jacob and Helene’s sons Adolf and Salomon Gustav.
Halberstadt branch
Wernigerode branch
Werner and his wife Margarete escaped to Brazil in 1939. Later living descendants are protected from public display.
Jacob/Jakob branch under review
Family testimony places Anna as Paul’s sister, married into a Jacob/Jakob family in Frankfurt, with a son Adolph/Adolf who reached New York. The line is shown here so relatives can recognize it, but the birth, marriage and parentage records are still being sought.
Children of Adolph and Marga
Herbert’s obituary documents Adolph, Marga, Herbert and Vernon as a household. The connection from Adolph back to Anna remains family testimony until a record names his parents.
American generations
Living relatives appear only with their consent. Children’s names, birth dates, addresses and other private details are omitted.
Siblings
Children of Paul J. and Judith
Select a person to open the biography and its sources. Connector lines show descent; questions and qualifications are explained in the relevant person record.
More of the family now visible
The central diagram uses connector lines only where a parent-child placement is sufficiently supported. These additional cards preserve spouses, parents and collateral households whose relationships are known—even when their precise attachment point is still open.
Before Jacob · compiled genealogy
Paul’s 1935–36 research and the ancestral chart point to Abraham Jacob Reichenbach and Jette or Therese Frank as Jacob’s parents, married around 1810. The names are preserved as a probable earlier generation; no civil or synagogue record in the collection yet proves the link.
Helene’s line · ancestral chart
The Ahnentafel names Helene Heinemann’s parents as Heinemann (8 July 1796–2 December 1863) and Betty Krömer (10 June 1794–25 December 1852). The chart is compiled genealogy rather than a civil register, but the names and dates are preserved as recorded.
Goldine’s line · Schwerin and Berlin
The ancestral chart names Goldine’s parents as the merchant Louis Marcuse (6 October 1813–16 April 1884) and Johanna Cohn (19 March 1817–22 April 1894), both rooted in Schwerin and later recorded in Berlin. It carries the Marcuse line one generation farther to Mordechai Markus Lewin Marcuse (1777–1852).
Margarete’s line · Halle and Hettstedt
A printed 1887 engagement announcement names Margarete’s parents: Philipp Liebenthal, a merchant of Halle, and Jenny Schottländer, the only daughter of L. Schottländer and his wife née Salzmann of Hettstedt. Identified family portraits preserve Philipp and Jenny together.
Jeanette’s line · Göttingen
Jeanette and Gustav’s 1883 civil marriage record names Jeanette’s parents as the merchant Abraham Rosenbaum and Bertha née Grunsfeld, both resident in Göttingen. This adds a documented maternal generation to the Wernigerode branch.
Ruth’s marriages · civil records and wedding verse
Ruth married Dr. Martin Pützrath in 1930; the marriage ended in divorce in 1932. She married Albert Rothschild on 3 August 1933. Dolf’s wedding song names Albert’s father as Max Rothschild and warmly includes an unnamed mother. Ruth later used the married name Spiegel; that later marriage record has not yet been found.
Jacob/Jakob branch · family testimony
Family testimony reports that Paul had a sister Anna who married a man named Jacob/Jakob, lived in Frankfurt, and had a son Dolf/Adolf who reached New York. Herbert Jacob's obituary independently documents Herbert as the son of Adolph and Marga and brother of Vernon. The branch is shown in the tree as a live family lead, but Anna's Halberstadt birth record, her Jacob/Jakob marriage, and Adolph's parentage have not yet been found.
Collateral kin · exact branch unresolved
Paula Reichenbach married Georg Wollenberg in 1903; their son Hans was born at Eisenach on 3 June 1907. Paul called Georg a cousin by marriage. Dolf’s ‘Uncle Georg’ is most plausibly this Georg, but Paula’s parents—and therefore the exact connector to the principal tree—remain unknown. The original 1942 transport list records Paula and Hans together at Westendorf 15.
Another Reichenbach household · exact branch unresolved
The cemetery register and adjoining graves establish the Quedlinburg household of Moritz Reichenbach—Moshe HaLevi—and Miriam Mathilde née Loewenthal. The register names their child Paul, who died in 1904. Their relationship to Jacob’s descendants remains open.
How to read this tree
Select a person for name variants, relationships and sources. Adolf, Adolph, Dolf and Dolph do not automatically refer to the same person.
Civil records connect Jacob and Helene to their sons Adolf and Salomon Gustav, joining the Halberstadt and Wernigerode branches. Other relationships are explained in each person’s record when the surviving evidence is less complete.
Goldine Marcuse Reichenbach, Adolf’s wife and Paul’s mother, connects this household to Schwerin through their 1872 marriage.
Family memory preserves an alternating Adolf–Paul naming tradition: Jacob, Adolf, Paul, Adolf “Dolf”, Paul J. and Daniel Dolph. Adolf’s gravestone carries his German name and his Hebrew name, Baruch Achiezer, with the same date of death on both faces.