OPPENHEIMER family
Most of the information on this page comes from a family tree
prepared by Samuel DOKOW of Hemsbach in 1900
based in part on the family tree of
Issachar ben Löb OPPENHEIMER of Hoffenheim.
Jakob OPPENHEIMER was born in Hemsbach
October 28, 1801 [Hemsbach I
S. 439].
In 1853, he was elected Gemeidevorsteher (synagogue elder - head of
K'hila) of Hemsbach [Wahl z. Gemeindevorsteher 1853, s. Hemsbach II
S. 26]. Jacob was a cattle trader.
Jakob married Jeanette Jankau (Scheinle
in
Hebrew) [G.L.A.
390 5924]
daughter of Salomon LOEW Jenken [Hemsbach I S. 439]. She was
born 1802 in Hemsbach. She drowned to death 9 September 1850 (Fast of
Gedaliah) in the Hemsbach Mikve.
They had two children.
- Regine OPPENHEIMER married Isitor HIROCH of
Worms.
- Hannah HIROCH
- Lena HIROCH
- Lenchen OPPENHEIMER married Jonas WOLF of
Griesheim.
Jakob remarried Jeanetta Moses (Hannchen,
Elke in Hebrew, Yeta in Yiddish).
She was a widow with one child (Babette Wolf)
having lost her
first husband Wolf at the age of 18 in 1838 in Schornsheim (Hessen).
Hannchen was born 1820 in Hemsbach, and died February 18, 1904 in Hemsbach.
Hannchen and Jakob had six children together.
- Rickchen (Rike, Regina) OPPENHEIMER married
Abraham (Aaron?) STERN from
Wetter (brother of Moses STERN below). They had 3 sons
and a daughter. They remained in Wetter,
and most of their children came to the US after the turn of the
century.
- Adolph STERN
- Herman STERN
- Julius STERN (moved to Kansas City)
- Hermann OPPENHEIMER (1852-1925) married Barabara
GROSS of Danville, Pennsylvania and settled in
Kansas City, Missouri.
- Betty OPPENHEIMER (never married)
- Rebekka OPPENHEIMER married Moses (Hermann) STERN from Wetter
(brother of
Abraham STERN above). Came to Kansas City about 1869.
- Moses OPPENHEIMER
- Cilly OPPENHEIMER married
Leopold Schack of
Babenhausen.
Jakob OPPENHEIMER died 1883 in Hemsbach.
His grave (#746), and those of his wives (#878 and #470) were indexed
1987/1992 by Renata FISCHER-HOFFMANN
(Hegenichstrasse 68, D-69124 Heidelberg Germany). References
[bold] above are due to her.
Daniel E. LOEB,
eMail: daniel.loeb at verizon.net
