Lina — written Pauline in later acts — was Ludwig Reichenbach’s wife and the mother of Paula, Antonie and Kurt. The Halberstadt register uses both given names in the same household. She died in December 1918; the family chart and the cemetery register disagree by ten days.
Paula’s 1877 birth act names her mother as Lina née Asch; Antonie’s 1879 act writes Pauline. Both name Ludwig Reichenbach as the father, give Hoheweg 24 as the address and record the household as mosaisch. Curt’s 1889 act again names Ludwig and Pauline, then living at Hoherweg 47. Together the three acts establish her place as their mother and preserve the register’s variation between Lina and Pauline.
The Halberstadt Jewish cemetery register separately records Lina Reichenbach née Asch in plot II 9 and gives 14 December 1918. The agreement on her names and month supports the identification. Until another record resolves the ten-day difference, both dates remain part of her story.
The family chart gives her death as 4 December 1918. No civil marriage entry, original death entry or gravestone photograph has yet been located, so the acts establish the household but not the marriage date or the exact day of her death.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Ludwig Reichenbach · husband · named as father with Lina or Pauline in the 1877, 1879 and 1889 birth acts
- Paula Wollenberg née Reichenbach · daughter · Lina is named in her 1877 birth act
- Antonie Weiss née Reichenbach · daughter · Pauline is named in her 1879 birth act
- Kurt Reichenbach · son · Pauline is named in his 1889 birth act
Sources
Sources
- Halberstadt civil birth act no. 343 for Paula Reichenbach, 18 April 1877 (FamilySearch)
- Halberstadt civil birth act no. 312 for Antonie Reichenbach, 6 April 1879 (FamilySearch)
- Halberstadt civil birth act no. 535 for Curt Reichenbach, 26 May 1889 (FamilySearch)
- Hand-drawn Reichenbach descent chart, 1997
- Halberstadt Jewish cemetery register supplied by Jutta Dick / Moses Mendelssohn Akademie
What remains uncertain
The three birth acts establish Lina or Pauline Asch with Ludwig as the mother of Paula, Antonie and Kurt, but no civil marriage act has been located. The chart reports 4 December 1918, while the cemetery register reports 14 December 1918; neither date is preferred until an original civil or cemetery record resolves the conflict.