Simon Wolf Oppenheimer
Other Family
b. 1798, Michelfeld — d. 1871, Manhattan, New York City
Husband of Rebecca · 1 child
ReligionJewish
Family
Location Trail
- Michelfeld
- Manhattan, New York City
Notes
Son of Zacharias Oppenheimer of Michelfeld, per Geni's curated master profile.
Distinct from Simon Oppenheimer (1876–1941) of the Gemmingen branch.
Married Rebecca Herzog. [read from the engraved Stammbaum (AR 11074) by vision model; not yet verified against the original]
Born about 1798 at Michelfeld, died 1871 in Manhattan, New York City. [Geni curated master profile, retrieved 2 August 2026]
He emigrated to the United States. The firm's history in AR 7044 mentions a branch of the family emigrating in 1849, which may be this household.
Twenty children on Geni — the largest sibship in this branch — including Brendel Babette, who married into the Gemmingen line.
Sources
- 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.
- GLA Karlsruhe 390 — Michelfeld Standesbücher 1808–1875 (Nr. 4772–4776) — Civil registers of the evangelical and Israelite congregations of Michelfeld, held by the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, Bestand 390, within the Amtsgerichtsbezirk Sinsheim series. FIVE volumes, all digitised: Nr. 4772 (1808–1830), Nr. 4773 (1831–1846), Nr. 4774 (1847–1865), Nr. 4775 (1866–1870), Nr. 4776 (1870–1875). From 1810 to 1870 Baden required its rabbis to keep birth, marriage and death registers in duplicate, one copy going to the district office; Bestand 390 preserves them. PARTIALLY EXAMINED, NOTHING YET CORROBORATED. Nr. 4772 (406 images) was sampled at pages 5, 200, 300, 380, 388, 394 and 400 and is evangelical throughout — Christian names, baptisms, entries signed by the pastor Bilthaler, and a closing index of Christian surnames only. The Israelite entries its title promises were not found in the sampled portion; they may lie in a section not yet located or in a separate Judenstandesbuch series. The volumes that matter for this archive remain Nr. 4772, which would cover Zacharias's death in 1827, Brendel's in 1819 and Brendel Babette's birth in 1819, and Nr. 4773, which would cover Brendel Babette's marriage in March 1843 — the entry that would settle her conflicting dates and confirm or refute Simon Wolf as her father. ACCESS: the page viewer is at bild_zoom/thumbnails.php?bestand=12390&id=2558350 for Nr. 4772; full-resolution pages come from bild_zoom/bild.php with originalBilddatei set to /data/bildcms/internetbilder/archiv_4/olf/bestand_0000005405/titlaufn_0001224216/04_0001224216_NNNN_4-1224216-N.jpg and a zoom parameter.
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