Civil registers, citizenship and addressesHLBR-CIVIL-08

The register records Dolf’s birth in Halberstadt

This civil entry records Adolf Reichenbach’s birth on 15 December 1914 to Paul and Margarete Reichenbach. The family later called him Dolf. The page anchors his name, date and parents before exile, but it does not tell the later story of his departure.

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English translation

Birth register no. 989, Halberstadt, 16 December 1914. Before the undersigned registrar appeared today the merchant Paul Reichenbach, personally known, resident in Halberstadt, of the Jewish religion, and reported that his wife Margarete Reichenbach, née Liebenthal, of the Jewish religion and living with him, gave birth at their residence in Halberstadt on 15 December 1914 at five-fifteen in the afternoon to a male child who received the given name Adolf. Read aloud, approved and signed: Paul Reichenbach. The registrar: [signature].

English reading prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive from the German civil record.

Archive reference
HLBR-CIVIL-08
Date
15 December 1914
Digital image
1970 × 4820 pixels
Evidence status
Historical civil record; publicly displayed with source attribution from the supplied family research copy
Source and provenance
Family-held scan supplied during an in-person visit to the Halberstadt archive and museum; the image bears the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Halberstadt watermark.
Credit
Historisches Archiv der Stadt Halberstadt; Reichenbach Family Archive
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Image treatment
300 dpi presentation derivative; orientation corrected and blank scanner overscan conservatively cropped. No tonal, textual or generative alteration.

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Reichenbach Family Archive. “The register records Dolf’s birth in Halberstadt.” 15 December 1914. HLBR-CIVIL-08. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/hlbr-civil-08.

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