David Otto was a child in Jacob and Helene’s Halberstadt household. The cemetery register says he was born in 1851 and buried on 20 August 1857 in the older Am Berge Jewish cemetery. No portrait or civil birth act has yet been found.
The family genealogy places David Otto among the children of Jacob Reichenbach and Helene Heinemann.
A cemetery register supplied by Jutta Dick records “David Otto Reichenbach,” identified there as a child, born in 1851 and buried on 20 August 1857 in Halberstadt’s older Am Berge Jewish cemetery.
No portrait, gravestone photograph, civil birth entry or additional biographical record has yet been located. The available dates indicate that he died in childhood.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Jacob Reichenbach · father
- Helene Reichenbach née Heinemann · mother
Sources
Sources
- Family genealogy identifying David Otto as Jacob and Helene’s son
- Jutta Dick / Moses Mendelssohn Akademie cemetery register, 17 July 2019: ‘Reichenbach, David Otto | child | 1851 – 20 Aug 1857’
What remains uncertain
A family genealogy names David Otto as Jacob and Helene’s son and gives his short life as 1851–1857; an independent civil record has not yet been located.