The names LOEB, LÖB, LEVI, LOW, and other variations stemmed from the German der Loewe (lion). [See Die Familiennamen der Juden in Deutschland by Kessler (trans. ARNSTEIN) in Stammbaum, Nos. 6 and 7, Dec. 1995.] According to another source, the name LOEB or Löb comes from die Liebe (love).
The Bohemian (Moravian) Rabbi HERZ was apparently a LOEB ancestor. Thus, LOEB could be a translation of Heart (lev in Hebrew).
The name LÖB was a popular first name in Southern Germany during the 1700s and when Napoleon required the adoption of surnames, many unrelated people simply converted their patronymics of Löb into surnames.
There is a town Loebau in Prussia east of Dresden near the Polish border. This could be another source of the name.
Samuel LOEB (born 1834), Butcher, married Mina WOLF (b. Braunsbach, d. Bad Nauheim).
Obituary of Mina WOLF (on right): On the Second Day of Passover, with numerous participation of different confessions from near and far, the mortal remains of the wife of the restaurateur Samuel Loeb, who is famous in wide circles, were directed from here to the last resting place. The deceased was born "Wolf" from Braunsbach, in the area of Württemberg and reached the age of 55 years. This pious and noble woman, that was snatched from her family so unexpectedly, belonged to that kind of women who become fewer and rarer in these days. She was the crown, the ornament and the shine of her home. She combined in herself in a very rare way the virtues of home life, simplicity, modesty and unpretentiousness with the most devoted love and the most self-sacrificing care for husband and children and actuated the deepest piousness with such unlimited silent charity; with one word, she was - just like king Solomon says - an eshet chayil (woman of valor). Her good name has secured her a permanent monument in our center. May she achieve the rewarding she deserves for her good works on the other side in rich dimensions.
May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
They had two children:
Jonas LOEB (b. 14 March 1864 Bad Nauheim, d. 16 January 1939 heart attack) married (22 April 1895) Nette RIES (b. 15 October 1868 in Michelbach on the Lucke, d. 15 April 1930 Bad Nauheim). (Norbert LOEB has birth certificates.) (Nette RIES's brother and nephew owned the Hotel Ulmann in Frankfurt. Relatives in the RIES family established a textile retail chain out of Cleveland, Ohio, and a gourmet chocolate company.)
Photo is of the marriage of Sally LOEB and Nora LEVITTE (around 1920). Jonas LOEB and Nette RIES are seated to the right of the groom. Norbert LOEB is probably the child on the left seated on the floor. Jeanette DANNENBERG and Julius LOEB are standing in the middle of the back row.
Jonas LOEB and Nette RIES owned and managed the LOEB's Promenaden Hotel in Bad Nauheim on Alicenstrasse from Fürstenstrasse to Aliceplatz, across Alicenplatz from the park.
Translation of Newspaper Announcement of the Hotel: Bad Nauheim. Hotelier Jonas LOEB, bought the estate of Mr. Geheimer Medizinalrat Dr. Abe [the title "Medizinalrat" used to be awarded for outstanding contributions to medicine] at Alice Place and will build a large first-class Hotel there, which is equipped with all luxuries of the new age.
They sold the Hotel probably around 1920 when they started Villa Irene (hotel, boarding house) also in Bad Nauheim. Villa Irene was taken over by the Nazis. A court later sold the hotel and awarded the proceeds to Jonas's heirs.
He had been in
Frankfurt after selling the LOEB's Promenaden-Hotel in the resort town of
Bad Nauheim.
Nette and Jonas were both buried in Bad Nauheim.
Obituary of Nette RIES: Bad Nauheim, 23rd of April. The joy of celebration changed into mourning for one of the most respected families of our community. Mrs. Nettel Löb, born Ries, a lady of fortune who was especially concerned about building the Synagogue, the wife of highly regarded Mr. Jonas Löb, went from here and on Thursday (during the intermediate days of the festival of Passover ? it was the 17th of April 1930) was laid to rest. Who of the prominent bathing guests, even from leading circles of the Hungarian and German Orthodox Judaism, didn't know the hospitable House Löb, in which they could indulge their recreation for weeks with full trust that was justified also in religious relations for many decades! And from the women in the tent you will be blessed. The "Woman in the Tent," it was primarily her who with an active spirit and tireless hands, permeated by her responsibility, managed all that in the best way. As a truly modest woman, she was a role model also for her other sisters in the community. May Hashem give his solace to the husband and the two sons. May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
Jonas LOEB and Nette RIES had two children.
Julius (Yitzhak) LOEB
Salomon (Sally) (Ernst) LOEB
(b. 23 June 1897 Bad Nauheim, d. Dec. 1956)
married Nora LEVITTE
(b. September 19, 1902, d. Apr. 1993).
Nora was related to the RIES family. They lived in Terre
Haute and New York.
Sally was very scrupulous about kashrut. He carried his own utensils and
ordered only hard boiled eggs at a restaurant. During the 1940 census he lived
at 618 1/2 South Fifth, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana.
Julius (Yitzhak) LOEB (b. 13 Feb. 1896 Bad Nauheim, Germany, d. 12 Sep. 1932 = 11 Elul, Frankfurt, Germany) married (1921) Jeanette (Anne, Hebrew: Shprintz) DANNENBERG (pictured to the right). His cousin Julius OPPENHEIMER from Koenig offered a furniture set a dowry for the marriage. They had two sons Norbert Hans and Stephen Gunther upon whom Julius doted as a loving father until his untimely death.
Julius was
somewhat adventurous. (Not many people traveled by plane in 1930 as
he did in a Ford Trimotor.) He loved skiing, was an expert chess player.
He loved to drive, and shared a car with three other families. Tragically, his
adventurous spirit may have led him to his death in 1932.
Julius tried to mount a moving streetcar, was severely injured, but lingered for seven weeks.
Jonas LOEB set up Julius LOEB, his brother Sally, and Julius DANNENBERG in a joint venture crystal factory around 1923. The venture did well until their Czech craftsman left with the money, and they went out of business around 1926. Julius then became salesman for the Czech shirt factory "Max SCHWARTZ Nachfulger" which was bought out in 1930. Julius then became a sales representative selling shirts and neckties. His wife Anne continued this work after his untimely death.
Julius had no college education but loved poetry, wrote love poems and was consulted as an authority on Goethe.
Julius was very thoughtful, had a large circle of friends. People in the family and neighborhood turned to him to help settle their disputes.
Julius and Sally were Fierce competitors and close and loving brothers.
Julius LOEB's cousin Amanda (Miriam) FLORSHEIM
introduced Anne to her husband Gustav (Gedaliah) OPPENHEIMER's
brother
Carl OPPENHEIMER. Following this shiduch,
Jeanette DANNENBERG remarried
(14 Dec. 1934 = 3 Tevet 5695, Frankfurt, Germany) [Ketuba]
Carl OPPENHEIMER
(b. January 1, 1895 Hemsbach, Germany, d. 4 Jan 1980 = 15 Tevet Chicago, Illinois, buried Oakridge Jewish Cemetery, Block #33, Lot #59).
Carl OPPENHEIMER was self-educated, and lived in rural Hemsbach. Was partner in
KAHN & OPPENHEIMER at Bahnhofsplatz 8, Frankfurt from around 1929.
He enjoyed to follow politics.
Carl loved opera and could recite Richard WAGNER's operas.
In 1936, Anne and Carl visited the United States in order to ask various relatives for an affidavit required to immigrate to the United States. The affidavit was produced thanks to Carl's brother Jakob (Jack) OPPENHEIMER, Julius OPPENHEIMER and Arthur STERN from Kansas City. They sent their eldest son Norbert Hans LOEB ahead first to the United States where he lived in Toledo with Carl's sister Rebecka OPPENHEIMER. In 1938, Carl, Anne and their youngest son Stephen Gunther LOEB escaped Nazi Germany. They fled Frankfurt after being warned by a policeman that they were on a list of Jews to be rounded up the next day. They already had tickets on the SS Nieuw Amsterdam from Rotterdam to New York City, so they waited in the Netherlands until their departure. (This immigration story is recounted in Rachel LOEB's From Fear to Freedom.
Carl and Gustav OPPENHEIMER founded OPPENHEIMER Brothers in Chicago (Later OPPENHEIMER Brothers Incorporated) while Norbert and Stephen stayed a while longer in Toledo.
From the Chicago Tribune (16 Feb 1962, p 41) Arrested in Shooting Another Cobra: "
James THOMAS, 17, of 4433 Greenwood av., and three juvenile companions were arrested for shooting Carl OPPENHEIMER, 67, of 5000 Cornell av., in the shoulder when he refused to hand his money over to them in a holdup attempt at 5439 University av. Sgt William HIMES and Policemen Fred HILLS and James HOWARD of Hyde Park station arrested THOMAS and two juveniles but, were unable to find a third, 15, accused of firing the shot. They found him later in the AUDY home, where he had been taken for another offense.
Joan Dee (Hannah) LOEB
(b. 7 December 1945)
(cjonitype@verizon.net)
married (7 December 1968 Beachwood, Ohio)
Larry Alan O'DAY
(b. 27 November 1947) (loday at velaw.com). They live in the Washington area.
Changed spelling of last name to ODAY in 1969
when Larry converted to Judaism.
Stephen Gunther LOEB
(Hebrew: Shmuel Menahem) stephengloeb@gmail.com,
b. 19 July 1928, Frankfurt on Main, Germany named
Günter Manfred Stefan LOEB.
His name was Americanized to Stephen Gunther LOEB upon
his immigration to U.S. Stephen LOEB
graduated Roosevelt University in Business Administration.
He followed his father as
President of OPPENHEIMER Brothers Inc. Founded S. LOEB & Co. and
Collegiate Delmar Group. Stephen married (14 August 1960 Chicago)
to
Sarane Rochelle
(Sarah Rachel) STARR, University of Chicago
graduate, high
school math teacher, University of Chicago Lab School (born 27
September 1934 Chicago, d. 3 June 2005 = 25 Iyar, Chicago,
Buried
Monday, June 6, 2005,
Oakridge Jewish Cemetery,
Hillside, Illinois. Block #42, Lot #48).
See Mom's
memorial page. Stephen and Sarane were introduced to each other by
Sara SCHMIDT at the University of Chicago.
David Jerome (Yitzak David) LOEB, Managing Director,
Intellicorp, (born 14 September 1961, Chicago)
david@loeb.org.
Married (19 June 1989, Saratoga, California)
to Maureen O'GRADY
(b. 18 Dec 19??)
maureen_loeb@yahoo.com.
Former executive at US Robotics. Real Estate Agent in Reno.
"David LOEB, who has served IntelliCorp during the
past year as
Director of the G.T.E. project ($2,360,000 profit in 1994Q4), has been
appointed Managing Director, Consulting
and Training Services. Prior to joining the Company,
David, who began his
career at the I.B.M. Research Lab in Yorktown Heights, held
development and
consulting management positions at software companies such
as AI Corp." (Intellicorp 1994 4th quarter report)
Robert Mark (Moshe Reuven) LOEB
robert.loeb at usdoj.gov
or bob_loeb@yahoo.com
(born 1 May 1963, Chicago) lawyer. He doubled majored in Political Science and Economics at the
University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (1980-1984). He studied law at Washington University (1984-1985) and
University of Chicago (1985-1987), clerked for Judge Richard POSNER on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
and served at the Department of
Justice (1987-2013) representing U. S. government in civil lawsuits before
the Circuit and Supreme Courts.
Robert LOEB won the John MARSHALL Award for the Handling of Appeals.
In 2013, Robert became a partner with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
He argued before the Supreme Court in
Shinn v Ramirez (2021),
Food Marketing Institute v Argus Leader Media (2018) and
Byrd v United States (2017).
Robert married (3 September 1989 New Haven) to
Julia Dvora SACHS (b. 27 Sept. 1966)
dcloebs@gmail.com
daughter of Ruth KLAU and Daniel SACHS sachs11md@gmail.com.
Julia studied at the University of Chicago (1984-1988, BA in Behavioral Sciences).
Julia is President of the Women's League of Conservative Judaism (2023).
They live in North Bethesda, Maryland.
Talia Arielle (Avi, Avital) LOEB
(b. 13 January 1995 Rockville, Maryland)
dolphingirlz@verizon.net.
Works in international marketing in Baltimore.
Jonah David LOEB (b. 1 Oct. 1997 Bethesda, Maryland).
Named after his great-great-grandfather
Jonas LOEBand
great-uncle Rabbi Donald STARR.
Now works for Epic in Madison, Wisconsin.
Ezra Joseph LOEB (b. 4 June 2000 Bethesda, Maryland) ezra.loeb@duke.edu.
Attended Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. Now studies microbiology at Duke University, Durham, NC.
Daniel Elliott (Daniyel Elhanon) LOEB (born 19 January 1966, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois),
mathematician,
(loeb17@gmail.com).
(Michael Reese Hospital no longer exists. It was closed in 2008 and demolished in 2009.)
Dan attended Caltech where he and David GOLDREICH were
members of the Caltech Bayit, and did his graduate work at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology under the direction of
Prof. Gian-Carlo ROTA (b. 27 Apr. 1932 Vigovano, Italy,
d. 18 Apr. 1999 Cambridge, Massachusettes).
Dan married (10 June 1990 Toulouse, France) and divorced
Hélène COHEN-SCALI
helensloeb@gmail.com,
aeronautical engineer, designed an
autonomous boat for the Port of Bordeaux as her
Ph.D.
thesis in
control theory from the Physics Department of the Université de
Bordeaux.
Dan worked six years at the University of Bordeaux's departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Dan worked in Statistical Arbitrage at Susquehanna
International Group from 1996 to 2022.
(Timeline,
Stories)
Jonathan Maïmon (Yonatan Mimoun) LOEB
(b. 2 February 1994 Bordeaux, France, d. 7 Oct. 2021 New York NY).
Named after his great-grandfather Mimoun BERDUGO.
Jonathan attended Lower Merion High School and as a speed cuber
his senior project was on
the Rubik's Cube
Jonathan graduated (2018) from Drexel University
where he won a pitch competition
and founded Jitsik.
Jonathan is a passionate Macintosh user and has created the Macheads 101 website
which produces free instructional videos for Apple users.
In elementary school, Jonathan was the curator of
The Rocking Rock Museum located in his bedroom.
At the time, Jonathan was also a biking enthusiast. His longest rides were the 35 mile Covered Bridges
Ride in Bucks County and 63 mile American Cancer Society ride.
In February 2018, he has was diagnosed with Stage IV esophageal cancer.
(See support
website.) He died 7 Oct. 2021 at Memorial Sloane Kettering in New York City,
a month after
his
engagement (10 Sep. 2021 MSK, NYC)
to Rachel EDELMAN (b. 15 Jan. 1995)
daughter of Cindy and Rich EDELMAN.
See bit.ly/JonMemorial and video of
funeral (access password: 1!$cyQ4p) and Jon.ForeverMissed.com.
Benjamin Zelig LOEB (b. 28 April 1999 in Wynnewood, PA)
benzloeb@gmail.com.
Named after his great-grandfather Rabbi Selig STARR and
uncle Rabbi David Benyamin ben Zelig (Donald STARR).
Benjamin attended
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
and now attends Lower Merion High School.
(Photos of birth and brit milah and
first year.)
Benjamin enjoys games (Chess, Magic, Settlers, Dominion, ...), ballroom dancing competitions
and theater.
He was a classmate and friend of distant cousin Lev COHEN.
Rachel Sarah LOEB (b. 22 May 2006 Bryn Mawr, PA). Named after
her grandmother Sarane
Rochelle LOEB née STARR.
Rachel attended elementary school at the Stern Branch of the
Perelman Jewish Day School. She is now in high school at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy.
She wrote From
Fear to Freedom which is a children's book about her grandfather Stephen LOEB's family's
escape from Nazi Germany.
Hospital and home pictures.
Simchat Bat Celebration,
First Steps
