Madame Pauline Latz Phillip

Compiled by Doron Zeilberger.

Please send any additions and corrections to zeilberg@math.rutgers.edu

Previous Update: Dec. 24, 1999; Dec. 5, 2000. (Thanks to my cousin Anne Howson (daughter of my aunt Gertrude Alexander Kuhn) ). Nov. 14, 2002 (thanks to Tom Furstenberg (jr and sr)). Nov. 27, 2002 (thanks to Tom Furstenberg (sr)).

Last Update: Sept. 6, 2005 (thanks to Stephen Falk, who kindly supplied me with List of Our Family members from Jacobson's book).

Madame Pauline Latz Phillip (b. Pauline Kaul) (1797-?) had two husbands: Samuel Salomon Latz (1775-Jan. 17, 1829), and Isaac Phillip (?-1848). She was naturalized a (partial) Posen citizen on June 6, 1834. At the time she lived in the city of Posen (today Poznan, Poland). The entry in Edward David Luft's book: "The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835" (Scholars Press, Atlanta , GA) about her reads as follows (p. 51):

69 Posen Latz, Pauline, geb. Kaul Kfmwtw. 6-6-1834

Kfmwtw is short for "a merchant's widow".

With her first husband, she had (at least) three children:

Bertha Latz Moritz (June 9, 1829-March 28, 1917)(my GGGrandmother), wife of my GGGrandfather Hermann Moritz (see http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/family/hermanm.html for their descendants). Before Bertha (b. Latz) Moritz was married to Hermann Moritz, she was briefly married to Louis Kaskel Baarth, who presumably died. Here is his entry from Jacob Jacobson's book.
2847 28.11.1848 BAARTH, Louis Kaskel, Rentier -- Fonds- u. Wechselhdlr., N. Promenade 8, geb. Posen 23.1.1828, Spende 5 Rtl. 21.3, heir. 11.4.1848 Bertha LATZ in B. (20-18), To. d. in Posen verst. Kfm. Samuel Salomon LATZ V.: Kfm., gest.
David Latz (Aug. 15, 1816-Feb. 12, 1904). (here is David Latz's portrait) (courtesy of Tom Furstenberg (jr); Tom(jr) also gave me the following pictures of David Latz's wife and her jewelry: portrait of Bertha (b. Witkowski) Latz (David's wife), closeup of Bertha W. Latz , closeup of hand in book, her jewelry, Bertha W. Latz's name plate, )
David Latz was married to Bertha Witkowski (Aug. 13, 1823- Feb. 1, 1892). David Latz and Bertha (b. Witkowski) Latz had the following children
- Emilie Latz Pincus(Sept. 19, 1843-Jul. 17, 1918). Emilie (b. Latz) Pincus was married to Siegfried Pincus (June 12, 1835- Feb. 17, 1884). They had the following children
  - Moritz Pincus (Jan. 19, 1868- Nov. 14, 1921), who was married to Martha Meier (June 21, 1878-?). They had two children
    - Heinz Pincus (Aug. 1, 1904-?)
    - Edith Pincus Hendelsohn (March 27, 1907-1942). Edith (b. Pincus) Hendelsohn was married to Willi Hendelsohn (July 26, 1904-?). They had one child: Marion Hendelsohn (b. 1928).
  - Theodor Pincus (March 26, 1869- July 26, 1932). Theodor Pincus married Martha Kantorowicz (Aug. 12, 1872- 1943). Theodor Pincus and Martha Kantorowicz Pincus had two children:
    - Charlotte Pincus (Aug. 4, 1896-?), who was married to Ruben ? (?-?)
    - Ernst Pincus (Feb. 2, 1904-?), who was married to Kaethe Zorek (?-?), and whose son is Robert Pincus (b. 1945).
  - Ignatz Pincus (June 1, 1871-1941), who was married to Therese Hirsch (April 26, 1884-1941), and whose son was Herbert Pincus (Nov. 6, 1920-1941)
  - Pauline Pincus (Feb. 19, 1877-Jan, 26, 1943), who was married to S. Smoszewski (Jan. 20, 1865- Nov. 3, 1939). Their children were
    - S.L. Smoszewski (Jan. 22, 1899-1970). He was married twice. First to Irma Hoffmann (Aug. 16, 1900-1968), and then to Ingeborg Voss (June 30, 1926-?) with whom he fathered G. Smoszewski (b. Dec. 30, 1950).
    - Elsbeth Smoszewski (May 28, 1903-1992). She had two husbands: Ernst Huernberg (April 10, 1908-?) and Arthur Waterhouse (?-1964).
    - Kaethe Smoszewski (b. May 22, 1903). She married Werner Furstenberg (Aug. 1, 1903- Feb. 15, 1971). Kaethe Smoszewski Furstenberg and Werner Furstenberg had two children:
      - Michael Thomas Furstenberg("Tom(sr)"). He was first married to Edith Zwaan (b. Nov. 19, 1941), and is now married to Anneke Vliet (b. Sept. 19, 1939). Tom(sr) and Anneke adopted Saipira and Sagdiana from Russia. With his first wife, Edith Zwaan, Tom(sr) has one child:
        
        Thomas Furstenberg ("Tom(jr)") (b. Sept. 3, 1968). He is married to Annet Veen (b. Oct. 15, 1964), and they are the proud parents of Floris Furstenberg (b. Nov. 22, 1995) and Merel Furstenberg (b. Feb. 24, 1998).
        Tom(sr) also has a daugther: Bettina Furstenberg (b. Dec. 17, 1967), who lives in Denmark, and who makes movies.
      - Madeleine R. Furstenberg ("Mady"), (Oct. 2, 1937- March 3, 1972)
- Theophil Latz (Sept. 12, 1847-Sept. 11, 1909)
- Jacques Latz (March 31, 1852- July 3, 1852)
- Ignatz Latz (June 11, 1854- Oct. 2, 1883)
- Gustav Latz (May 5, 1858- May 22, 1858)
Benno Latz (Dec. 23, 1817- Aug. 2, 1878). He was married to Helene Philipp (April 21, 1821- Jan. 19, 1892) [who apparently was his step-sister]. (see their graves,thanks to Stephen Falk). They had a son, Emil Latz (Nov. 30, 1842- Jan. 3, 1904), (see his grave,thanks to Stephen Falk). who was married to Natalie Mannheimer (Feb. 7, 1853- June 20, 1929).
A daughter, ? Latz Auerbach(?), who had at least one child. [Added Sept. 23, 3005: Stephen Falk pointed my attention to the following entry from Jacob Jacobson's book on Berlin Jews:
2037 23.2.1842 LATZ, Benno, Buchhalter -- Kfm., N. Promenade 8, geb. Posen 18.12.1817, Schulzeugnis u. Führungszeugnis Magdeburg, N. P. Pos. seine Mutter vormals Wwe. LATZ, Pauline geb. KAUL, jetzt vereh. PHILIPP, 6.6.1834, Syn. Ablösungsattest Posen 27.8.1840, 5 Rtl. 23.9 f. N. B. H., heir. 6.3.1842 Helene, To. d. Kfm. Isaac PHILIPP (Nr. 511), Getreidehdlr. in Fa. J. Philipp, gehörte u. a. zu den Wohltätern der A.V.A., war mehrfach Mitglied des Vorstandes der Jüd. Gem., starb B. 2.8.1878 V.: Kfm., gest. = Samuel Salomon LATZ, Kfm. in Posen. [Vgl. Jubiläumsschrift der A. V. A. 1879. -- 1879 übergibt sein Sohn Emil LATZ der Anstalt 3000 Rtl. zur Erinnerung an seinen Vater.]

Madame Latz Phillip's second husband was Isaac Phillip (Filhene, April 3, 1784- Berlin, March 16, 1848). He died in the revolt of 1848. Here is his entry from the above-mentioned Jacobson book:

511 27.4.1815 PHILIPP, Isaac, Wechsler, Jägerstr. 41, geb. Filehne, 33 J. (3.4.1784), 18 J. in B., Mitglied der Korp. d. Kfm.schaft, gehörte zu den Stiftern der A.V.A. der Jüd. Gem. 1828, gest. B. 16.3.1848 V.: Feibel (Philipp) Levi aus Filehne [Sohn: Nr. 1820]

Pauline Kaul-Latz-Phillip and Issac Phillip had one child together: Emma Phillip Weiss who had one son, ?, and one daughter: Anna Weiss.

Issac Phillip also had the following children from his first wife:

Abraham Isaac Philipp (Aug. 22, 1814-after 1868). Here is his entry from Jacobson's book:
1820 23.3.1840 PHILIPP, Abraham Isaac, Associé-Kfm., N. Promenade 8, geb. B. 22.8.1814, 19 Rtl. 23.9 f. N. B. H., heir. -- schon mit dem Vornamen Adolph -- 23.6.1840 Henriette SCHÖNLANK (26-18 1/2), To. d. Kfm. Salomon SCHÖNLANK (Nr. 1558), war Getreidehdlr., gest. nach 1868 V.: Stbgr., Kfm. = Isaac PHILIPP, Nr. 511
Presumably he had two children: Tony Boas, and Elsa Lasalle (?) [note: these may be from another sibling]
Elsa Hoshi (sp?). Elsa had a daughter: Elsa(?) Hoshi Fabian. Elsa Fabian had two children: Walter Fabian, a politician who moved to France, and Lotta Hopfnung, who moved to Israel. Lotta has two children: ? and Raphael ("Rafi").
? Cohen, who married Mr. Cohen. She had a daughter called Alicia Cohen Eisner

A loving portrait of Pauline is given in her grand-daughter Anna Moritz's Pinner Letter to Anna Pinner's granddaughter Gertrude .

I wish to thank my aunt Brigitte Weiss, and my cousin Ada Weiss, for supplying the information in this page.

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