Friedrich Reichenstein was a validated Israeli supercentenarian born in 1906.
Reichenstein was born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at 5:45 p.m. on 1 February 1906. His parents married in Rozhniativ, in present-day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, on 1 March 1905. Shortly after, they emigrated to Germany, settling first in Herne, where he was born. His father began as a peddler in Herne. Later, he opened a haberdashery shop there.
From 1916 to 1920, he attended Pestalozzi Elementary School in Bottrop, followed by Humanistic High School in Bottrop until March 1920, and then High School in Gelsenkirchen until 1925. He devoted many hours each week to studying Latin and Greek and graduated on 17 March 1925. After graduating from high school, he pursued studies in law, economics, and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Vienna, Berlin, and Cologne.
(Source: Yedioth Ahronoth)
On 5 May 1933, he received a letter signed by Roland Freisler, the Prussian Minister of Justice, stating that he was hereby prohibited from practicing law. On 7 July 1933, he received a carbon copy of a letter from the Prussian Minister of Justice to the President of the Higher Regional Court in Cologne, stating that his admission as a lawyer in Cologne was revoked.
After January 1933, his family reportedly faced constant reprisals. They resided in a single-family house in Bottrop, where individuals in SA and SS uniforms, sometimes without, would visit to extort money from them. In April 1934, they relocated to a small apartment in Essen, taking only a few pieces of furniture with them.
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