A contemporary death notice identifies Anna’s husband Julius, their son Adolf and the Reichenbach relatives who mourned her.
Anna Jacob, née Reichenbach, died following an accident on 14 June 1931. Her newspaper death notice gives the family home as Schubertstrasse 13 in Frankfurt am Main and announces burial from the new Israelite cemetery on Eckenheimer Landstrasse two days later.
The notice names Julius Jacob as Anna’s husband and Adolf Jacob as their son. It also names Paul Reichenbach and his wife, Oberbaurat Max Reichenbach and his wife, Else Sernau née Reichenbach, and Ernst Reichenbach among the mourners.
Its opening calls Anna a wife, mother, sister, sister-in-law and aunt. Those words strongly place her within Paul, Max, Else and Ernst’s close family generation, but the notice does not assign every relationship individually or name Anna’s parents.
Anna and Paul each named a son Adolf. Adolf was an established German given name in their era. Family memory identifies Anna as Paul’s sister and their father as Adolf Reichenbach; within that remembered lineage, the repetition also carried a family meaning. The elder Adolf is remembered as deeply loved, and his memorial portrait praises his industry, prudence and clear-sightedness.
Known household
Recorded connections
- Julius Jacob · husband named in the 1931 notice
- Adolf Jacob · son named in the 1931 notice
- Paul Reichenbach · named mourner; close family generation
- Max Reichenbach · named mourner; close family generation
- Else Sernau née Reichenbach · named mourner; close family generation
- Ernst Reichenbach · named mourner; close family generation
Sources
Records and testimony
- Berliner Tageblatt, morning edition, 16 June 1931, p. 10 (RB-DOC-0214)
- Family testimony identifying Anna within Paul’s generation and remembering their father Adolf as deeply loved
- Memorial cabinet-card portrait of Adolf Reichenbach
Evidence note
A civil birth or marriage record is still needed to name Anna’s parents directly. The later American Adolph Jacob household has not yet been linked to Anna and Julius’s son Adolf by a continuous record chain.