Goldine Marcuse was born in Schwerin on 8 February 1850. She married Adolf Reichenbach there on 27 July 1872 and raised Paul in Halberstadt.
The family Ahnentafel names her parents as the merchant Louis Marcuse and Johanna Cohn and carries the Marcuse line one generation farther into Schwerin.
On 27 July 1872 Goldine married Adolf Reichenbach in Schwerin. Their son Paul’s 1876 Halberstadt birth entry names both parents and provides an independent civil record of the marriage and household.
After Adolf’s death in 1900, Halberstadt’s 1905 address book lists the widow Goldine Reichenbach at Kaiserstraße 32. She died on 12 October 1913.
A family belief has long suggested a distant connection between this Marcuse line and the philosopher Herbert Marcuse. A comparison with published accounts of his parents and grandparents found no point of connection. The belief remains part of the family’s remembered genealogy, not a documented relationship.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Adolf (Adolph) Reichenbach · husband
- Paul Reichenbach · son
- Max Reichenbach · son
- Ernst Reichenbach · son
Sources
Sources
- Family Ahnentafel: Goldine’s birth and death dates, Schwerin marriage, parents Louis Marcuse and Johanna Cohn
- Paul Reichenbach civil birth record, Halberstadt, 20 October 1876
- Halberstadt address book, 1905: widow Goldine Reichenbach, Kaiserstraße 32
- Published genealogical accounts of Herbert Marcuse’s immediate family, checked only to test the family belief
What remains uncertain
The Ahnentafel is a compiled family source. Its Marcuse ancestry remains subject to confirmation from Schwerin civil and Jewish communal records; no documentary connection to Herbert Marcuse has been found.