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He opened the Halberstadt clothing house the family carried forward.

Jacob Reichenbach

c. 1814–1817 — 17 December 1872

This family portrait shows an older Reichenbach ancestor whom family memory has associated with Jacob Reichenbach. Someone kept the likeness through later generations. The sitter is not named on the object, so Jacob remains a possibility rather than a confirmed identification.RB-PHO-0270

Jacob was the earliest documented proprietor of the family clothing house in Halberstadt. The firm later remembered 1843 as its founding year.

The clothing house later dated its founding to his lifetime.ShopsFamilyAdolf

The Berend Lehmann Museum identifies Jacob Reichenbach as the founder of the business in the mid-nineteenth century. The firm itself later advertised 1843 as its founding year.

Every surviving source agrees that Jacob died on 17 December 1872. His birth year remains unsettled: the museum, an Ahnentafel and a family chart give 1814, 1817 and 1816 respectively.

He married Helene Heinemann. Later derivative research called her Lea Löwenheim, but matching dates and parents show that the second name is a corruption, not another wife; the cemetery register records her as Heynemann-Löwenheyn, the likely source of the misreading.

The family genealogy also records a son, David Otto Reichenbach, who died in childhood. The cemetery register gives his years as 1851–1857; no civil birth or death record has yet been located.

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Sources

  • Berend Lehmann Museum panel
  • Ahnentafel
  • Family descent chart
  • 1936 trade listing
Reichenbach Family Archive — family-held Ahnentafel Reichenbach Family Archive — hand-drawn descent chart

What remains uncertain

Family sources place Jacob’s birth between 1814 and 1817; no known gravestone or civil birth record resolves the year.

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