Jacob Oppenheimer
Other Family
b. 15.02.1862, Bruchsal — d. 04.09.1933, Bruchsal
ReligionJewish
AddressBruchsal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Family
Location Trail
- Bruchsal
- Bruchsal, Baden-Württemberg
Notes
Otto's elder brother. Remained in Bruchsal.
Wife: Hedwig Oppenheimer née Wälder (sister of Otto's wife Emma née Wälder — the two brothers married two sisters).
Children: Gertrude Bernkopf née Oppenheimer, Bertha (Bertel) Fröhlich née Oppenheimer.
Died in 1933, before the worst of Nazi persecution.
Geni: https://www.geni.com/people/Jacob-Oppenheimer/6000000002764925063
Co-dedicated the engraved Stammbaum der Familie Oppenheimer, Michelfeld (AR 11074) with Dr. med. Eduard Oppenheimer of Strassburg and Dr. jur. Eugen Oppenheimer.
Named in AR 5248 as one of the two second cousins with whom Eugen Oppenheimer set out to draw up the family tree.
Sources
- Geni.com World Family Tree — Collaborative genealogy profiles managed by Randy Schoenberg. Profiles for Joseph Marum Oppenheimer and Mina Oppenheimer (née Kirchhausen).
- LBI AR 5248 — Chronicle of the family of Zacharias Oppenheimer of Michelfeld — Letter of 18 November 1929 from Dr. Eugen Oppenheimer (Frankfurt am Main, firm Jacob S. H. Stern) to Generaldirektor Dr. Richard Heilner, Stuttgart, giving the descent of the family: Loeb moved from Heidelberg to Hoffenheim, his son Hayum from Hoffenheim to Michelfeld, and Hayum's son Zacharias was born in Michelfeld about 1770. Records that Zacharias founded a cloth factory there and became a Gemeindebürger under Baden's sixth constitutional edict — an exception among Jews. Names the author's collaborators on the family tree: Jacob Oppenheimer of Bruchsal and Dr. Eduard Oppenheimer of Strassburg. Digitised by the Leo Baeck Institute.
- LBI AR 11074 / MF 1351 — Stammbaum der Familie Oppenheimer, Michelfeld — Engraved family tree of the Michelfeld Oppenheimers, dedicated to the family by Dr. med. Eduard Oppenheimer (Strassburg), Jakob Oppenheimer (Bruchsal) and Dr. jur. Eugen Oppenheimer (Heilbronn); drawn by K. Nagel, Karlsruhe. Centres on a portrait of Zacharias Oppenheimer (1773–1827) and his wife Fratel, with shields for his parents Hajum and Brendel and his grandparents Loeb and Kehle, and several hundred descendant shields. Includes views of the Geburtshaus and the Michelfeld factory. A copy is also held in AR 7044, folder 1/13.
- LBI AR 7044 / MF 739 — Bär-Oppenheimer Family Collection — Papers of the Bär and Oppenheimer families of Bruchsal, 1841–1981, covering the Oppenheimer woolens factory and the Bär leather firm (Firma Raphael Bär, later Anol AG). Digitised in full. Includes Eugen Oppenheimer's 1929 correspondence on the family tree (1/8), family trees (1/13), the firm history 'Geschichte eines Uniformtuchhauses' (1/14), Louis Oppenheimer's 1929 family history (1/19), Otto Oppenheimer's First World War letters (1/20), Annie Bär's 1941 diary of the crossing to America (1/25), naturalisation certificates for Otto and Emma (1/29), and drawings of the Bruchsal synagogue destroyed in 1938 (OS92). Related memoirs: Otto Oppenheimer ME 1215, Julius Bär ME 1216, Harry Ettlinger ME 1333.
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