L-012

Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse

Birthplace reported for Cäcilie and Emil Saalfeld in Auguste Saalfeld's 1939 U.S. declaration of intention.

Name variants
Limburg, Germany
People
Auguste Einstein Saalfeld, Ignatz Saalfeld, Emil H. Saalfeld

Discoveries connected to this place

Baden-Wuerttemberg awarded Auguste Saalfeld DM 140.25 for emigration costs in 1956, settled her professional-loss claim in 1958 with DM 6,200 in arrears and a lifetime monthly pension of DM 100, and awarded DM 1,023 for household distress-sale loss in 1959; her pension was later raised to DM 106 and ended with her death in June 1965.

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.

Confirmed
Auguste Saalfeld identified Emil Sealfield as her child, born 6 July 1902 in Limburg, Germany.

Auguste's 30 October 1939 declaration of intention lists Emil Sealfield as her child and gives the numeric date 6-7-1902. Her adjacent entry for Cäcilie uses 3-11-1900, matching Cäcilie's independently known 3 November birth; Emil's own 1942 draft card explicitly writes July 6, 1902. The declaration therefore uses European day-month order despite the U.S. form labels, while Ancestry's index reverses both children's dates. S-028's certified death-certificate copy names Ignatz Salfield and Augusta Einstein as Emil's parents, while Auguste's signed 1957 application reports two children.

Confirmed
Auguste and Ignatz Saalfeld operated S. Saalfeld, a Limburg specialty shop for women's and girls' clothing; Ignatz was the formal proprietor, Auguste received procuration on 16 January 1930 and managed the business, and the firm was erased from the commercial register on 4 September 1934. The compensation authority accepted that anti-Jewish boycott pressure forced the closure.

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.

Confirmed