Kohlbach-Bickel family

The Kohlbach-Bickel Family comprised three generations of individuals who lived in Hungary, Germany and Switzerland. The first generation of the family consisted of Bertalan Kohlbach (1866-1941?), rabbi and gymnasium professor, and his wife Helen (Ila, or Ilona) Katscher, the youngest aunt of Rosika Schwimmer. Together they had two children: Emil (1902-?) and Ella (1906-?). Ella married Erich Bickel (1895-?), a Swiss engineer, and they had three children: Werner, Edith (called Mitzi) and Hans.

Bertalan and Helen Kohlbach lived in Temesvár, Hungary (now Timisoara, Romania) and Budapest. Bertalan held a doctorate in Semitic Philology from the Scientific University of Hungary and was rabbi to a wealthy congregation. At some point, however, he was dismissed from this position and resumed his studies with the intent of securing a professorship. He concluded these studies in Berlin in 1896 and eventually attained a position at a gymnasium in Budapest. Throughout his career, Bertalan wrote articles for various papers in Hungary and Germany, often under the Germanized name Berthold Kohlbach.

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