This is not Kurt of the 12 April 1942 transport. This page is the later Kurt of the gut-casings firm. Read about Kurt of the transport.
This Kurt kept the M. Reichenbach gut-casings house in Halberstadt. The 1928 directory puts him at Sedanstraße 62 and the firm at Gerberstraße 12 — the same pages that list the other Kurt with the clothing shop.
The 1928 Halberstadt directory lists merchant Kurt Reichenbach at Sedanstraße 62 and connects him with M. Reichenbach, the gut-casings firm at Gerberstraße 12. On the same pages, another Kurt Reichenbach appears with the J. Reichenbach clothing house at Lindenweg 42. The different businesses and addresses show that the directory was recording two men with the same name.
A 1916 commercial-register notice for Halberstadt HR A 934 names merchant Moritz Reichenbach as proprietor of M. Reichenbach and records procuration for his wife Mathilde née Löwenthal. The couple can now be identified with the Quedlinburg household documented in the Halberstadt cemetery. The 1928 directory connects Moritz to the firm at Sedanstraße 81.
By 1938, the gut-casings Kurt is recorded at the firm’s Gerberstraße 12 premises and privately at Sedanstraße 81, the address associated with Moritz and the firm in 1928. The street register places both properties under Reichenbach, K., gut-casings dealer.
An official Aryanization table preserved by the Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt explicitly names ‘M. Reichenbach, Inh. Kurt Reichenbach (Darmgroßhandlung)’ and names Fritz Tittmann as the Aryanizer. This establishes Kurt as proprietor and business successor. It does not state when or how he acquired the firm.
The family remembers this Kurt as Moritz’s son. That remains attributed family recollection: the documented business succession and shared address do not establish parentage. No located record yet names Kurt’s parents.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Moritz Reichenbach · business predecessor · family relationship unproved
Sources
Sources
- Halberstadt address book, 1928: Kurt Reichenbach associated with M. Reichenbach at Sedanstraße 62
- Halberstadt address book, 1928: Moritz Reichenbach associated with M. Reichenbach at Sedanstraße 81
- City of Halberstadt address-book extract, 1938: Kurt Reichenbach, gut-casings dealer, Gerberstraße 12 and Sedanstraße 81
- Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, C 28 I f, Nr. 934 Bd. I, Bl. 14: M. Reichenbach, proprietor Kurt Reichenbach
- Family recollection identifying the gut-casings Kurt as Moritz Reichenbach’s son; parentage unproved
- Deutscher Reichsanzeiger, 3 November 1916: Halberstadt HR A 934, Moritz Reichenbach and Mathilde née Löwenthal
What remains uncertain
The directories and official Aryanization list document Kurt’s work in and later ownership of M. Reichenbach. Family memory identifies him as Moritz’s son, but no located record names his parents. Business succession does not establish kinship. The clothing-house Kurt appears separately in the same directories at a different address.