Richard Friedländer

In 1908 he married Auguste Behrend, who was divorced from her first husband Oskar Ritschel and was the mother of Magda.

[3] In 2016, it was reported that Friedländer may have been Magda's biological father, as stated in his residency card, found in the Berlin archives by writer and historian Oliver Hilmes.

[4] However, Magda's adoption may have been required for her parents' delayed marriage, to update the girl's 'illegitimate child' status.

In December 1931, Magda married Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party Gauleiter (and later leader of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda).

Already injured, the hard work and catastrophic living conditions led to his early death.