Albert married Ruth Reichenbach in Halberstadt on 3 August 1933. Dolf’s wedding song already calls him a brother. The verses put the courtship in Schierke the winter before, then bring Albert to Halberstadt as a visitor the family was told not to announce.
Albert married Ruth Reichenbach in Halberstadt on 3 August 1933. Dolf dedicated the printed wedding song to his ‘dear siblings Ruth and Albert,’ language that places Albert inside the family circle at the moment of marriage.
The song recalls Albert encountering Ruth again in Schierke during the preceding winter and seeking a private conversation around New Year in the hotel reading room. It then brings him to Halberstadt as a visitor and jokes about his courtship, his driving and Dolf being told not to reveal his arrival.
A later verse praises Albert’s relationship with both parents. It names his father as Max Rothschild, remembered as an enthusiastic fisherman, while his mother is warmly described but not named.
Albert and Ruth signed the family’s December 1935 mourning card after Paul’s death. Family testimony places them in the United States before Dolf and Margarete’s American record trail was complete.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Ruth Helene Reichenbach · wife · married 3 August 1933
- Max Rothschild · father · named in the wedding song
- Mrs. Rothschild · mother · praised but not named in the wedding song
Sources
Sources
- Dolf Reichenbach’s printed wedding song, 3 August 1933
- Wedding portrait and menu
- December 1935 mourning card
- Family testimony
What remains uncertain
Albert’s birth, occupation, parents’ full identities, emigration record and later life have not yet been established from civil or immigration records. The wedding verses are affectionate comic testimony and should not be read as a literal record of every incident.