Ignatz Saalfeld
Spouse of Auguste; primary marriage documentation still remains to be added. S-027's Limburg municipal and commercial-register evidence identifies him as the formal proprietor of S. Saalfeld, a women's and girls' clothing shop at Grabenstrasse 36, and gives his exact Limburg birth date. The couple were last registered at Marktstrasse 17 in Limburg before moving to Stuttgart on 28 February 1937. S-028's file card and Auguste's signed compensation application record his death on 6 July 1937 in Wiesbaden; the underlying civil death record has not yet been reviewed.
- Record ID
- P-013
- Name variants
- —
- Birth
- December 16, 1867
- Death
- July 6, 1937
- Family lines
- Saalfeld–Wortsmann–Silverstein
- Related people
- Auguste Einstein Saalfeld, Caecilie Saalfeld Wortsmann, Max Wortsmann, Edith Karola Wortsmann Silverstein, Rubin Milton Silverstein, Emil H. Saalfeld
- Places
- Stuttgart, Württemberg, Atlanta, Georgia, Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse, Wiesbaden, Hesse
- Sources
- Auguste Saalfeld née Einstein restitution file, Ignatz Saalfeld restitution file, Rubin Milton Silverstein obituary, Emil H. Salfield and Cora Maier marriage record
Evidence-backed claims
Rubin Milton Silverstein's contemporary obituary directly identifies Edith Silverstein as his wife. S-027's certified death record names Mrs. Max Wortsman as Auguste's daughter; related file correspondence explicitly calls Cecilie Wortsman nee Saalfeld the daughter of Auguste and Ignatz, strengthening the first parent-child link. S-028 independently repeats that relationship in Auguste's signed application and counsel's family submissions. The remaining links in this composite chain are strongly supported by the existing family and published evidence, but S-027's Cunard confirmation describes the Wortsmann children only by age and does not name Edith.
The original Ohio marriage record directly names the spouses, marriage date, and Emil's parents as Ignaz Salfield and Augusta Einstein. S-028 contains a certified 1958 copy of the same Hamilton County record.
S-027 includes the commercial-register extract, Limburg municipal and chamber replies, tax figures, and the compensation authority's review. Those contemporary records establish the firm, formal ownership, procuration, and 1934 deletion. Cecilia Wortsman's sworn 1958 statement identifies Auguste as the working manager who independently purchased stock in Berlin. The 1958 authority concluded that the Jewish proprietor's business would otherwise have participated in the post-1933 recovery and awarded Auguste compensation for lost professional advancement. S-028 preserves duplicate working copies of the authority's business history and settlement calculation.
The signed decisions, settlement copies, payment records, pension-adjustment decisions, and death-related closure correspondence in S-027 directly record each amount and disposition. The 1958 professional-loss settlement covered Auguste's own and derivative Ignatz claim and required waiver of further professional-loss compensation. S-028 preserves the corresponding authority calculation and waiver requirement from Ignatz's heirs file.
S-028's administrative file card and Auguste Saalfeld's signed 1957 compensation application independently record the same exact date and Wiesbaden place. Counsel later relayed Max Wortsmann's account that Ignatz traveled from Stuttgart to Wiesbaden for medical treatment by a friend and died after a few days. The date and place are repeated dossier facts; the medical-trip circumstance remains retrospective family testimony.
The authority required an Erbschein because the submitted family evidence did not conclusively establish succession. Counsel considered probate costs disproportionate to the likely recovery and withdrew the private-insurance claim in October 1958, then the property, asset, and economic-advancement claims in March 1959. The authority's December 1958 calculation treated Auguste's DM 100 monthly professional-loss settlement as compensating both spouses' lost income and required waiver of her derivative occupational claim. Counsel's 21 September 1959 letter confirmed that no further claims were asserted and the files could be closed.