Jacob Reichenbach’s wife and the mother named across the family’s earliest documented Halberstadt generation.
The family Ahnentafel records Helene Heinemann as born on 11 January 1823 and dead on 12 October 1903. It names her parents as Heinemann, born in 1796, and Betty Krömer, born in 1794. As a compiled genealogy, the chart preserves family knowledge but does not replace civil or synagogue records.
Helene married Jacob Reichenbach. The family charts identify David Otto, Adolf, Ludwig and Salomon Gustav within their household. Ludwig’s 1920 civil death record independently names Jakob Reichenbach and Helene Heinemann as his parents, confirming Helene’s identity in at least that parent-child relationship.
Older derivative research called Jacob’s wife ‘Lea Löwenheim.’ The dates and parent names in that derivative line match Helene’s chart entry, while an independently held Simonis chart names her Helene Heinemann. The archive therefore treats Lea Löwenheim as a corrupted search alias, not a second wife.
A cemetery register records the surname in the compound form Heynemann-Löwenheyn. That spelling may help explain how the later corruption arose, but the original death or burial record is still needed before the wording can be interpreted with confidence.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Jacob Reichenbach · husband
- David Otto Reichenbach · son according to the family genealogy
- Adolf Reichenbach · son
- Ludwig Reichenbach · son · Helene is named in his civil death record
- Salomon Gustav Reichenbach · son according to the family charts
Sources
Records and testimony
- Family-held Ahnentafel for Ernst Reichenbach
- Hand-drawn Reichenbach descent chart, 1997
- Leo Baeck Institute, Rudolf Jakob Simonis Collection, AR 7019 / MF 551
- Ludwig Reichenbach civil death entry no. 359, Halberstadt, 7 May 1920
- Halberstadt Jewish cemetery register
What remains uncertain
Helene’s name is independently supported by the Simonis chart and Ludwig’s civil death entry. Her exact birth and death dates and the names of her parents still rest on compiled genealogy; original vital records have not yet been located. ‘Lea Löwenheim’ is retained only as a corrupted search alias.