Anna Jacob née Reichenbach

Frankfurt death certificate no. 857 was registered on 16 June 1931. It records Anna Jacob, née Reichenbach, as 51 years old, born in Halberstadt, and married to Bankdirektor Julius Jacob. It gives her residence as Schubertstraße 13 and records that she died at Schubertstraße 14 at 7:15 a.m. on 14 June 1931; the death was reported in writing by the Frankfurt Polizeipräsident.

The civil act does not name Anna’s parents. An age of 51 is compatible with a birth in 1880, but it does not prove a birth date or connect her by itself to Adolf and Goldine Reichenbach.

Anna’s newspaper death notice says that she died following an accident. It 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 Frankfurt Israelite Gemeindeblatt’s July 1931 list of deaths instead prints Schubertstraße 15; that communal listing is kept as a separate address, not used to overwrite the residence at 13 or the place of death at 14 in the civil act.

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 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—not the death certificate—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.