The ReichenbachFamily Archive
Search the archive
Language
ENDEעברית

He carried the family business from Halberstadt to Wernigerode.

Salomon Gustav Reichenbach

19 August 1848 — 19 June 1928

This civil record supplies the decisive family link: Salomon Gustav Reichenbach of Wernigerode was a Halberstadt-born son of Jacob Reichenbach and Helene née Heynemann. Gustav and Jeanette signed the civil entry with the witnesses. It joins the Wernigerode household to Jacob and Helene’s Halberstadt family, but it does not describe the later business arrangements between the two shops.RB-SCAN-008

Gustav was Adolf’s brother. He moved to Wernigerode, married Jeanette Rosenbaum and helped establish the shop where their son Fritz grew up.

A Göttingen civil marriage record names Salomon Gustav Reichenbach as a merchant born in Halberstadt, resident in Wernigerode, and the son of the late Halberstadt merchant Jacob Reichenbach and Helene née Heynemann. Gustav and Adolf were brothers. The two households were one family.

Wernigerode had long restricted Jewish residence. A published history based on municipal records places Gustav among the first Jews admitted under Prussian authority in 1874; the 1876/77 address book records him at Breite Straße 697, today No. 7.

He married Jeanette Rosenbaum on 4 June 1883. Their only son was Fritz. Gustav later registered the Wernigerode firm and served as its managing director, while Jeanette remained its owner and the person whose initial stood over the shop as J. Reichenbach.

Family and household

People connected to this life

Sources

Sources

  • Stadtarchiv Göttingen, Heiratshauptregister 1883, C 39 Nr. 164
  • Peter Lehmann, ‘Spurensuche — Jüdische Familiengeschichten in Wernigerode,’ Harz-Forschungen XXXVI (2023), pp. 107–115
  • Halberstadt cemetery register
Reichenbach Family Archive — Gustav and Jeanette’s civil marriage record Reichenbach Family Archive — Gustav’s gravestone Reichenbach Family Archive — Wernigerode branch
All peopleFamily treeRelated documents