Regina Tachauer was born in Bad Kissingen on March 29, 1876 as the first child of Isaak Seelig and his wife Klara, née Friedmann. Her father was the Shohet of Bad Kissingen and conveyed a deep religious attachment to his children. Her brother Jakob had died in World War I. Her younger brother Alfred became a teacher, cantor and shohet in Hessian Friedberg. Her two unmarried sisters Rosa and Hedwig ran a respected hotel in Von-der-Tann-Strasse.

In October 1904, Regina married the merchant Isaak Tachauer from Georgensgmünd, who moved into the spa town after the marriage. In 1905, their first daughter Gisela was born. In 1907, Hilde and in 1909, their son Sally followed. In March 1919, her husband Isaak got the citizens’ rights of Bad Kissingen. The family first lived in Promenadestrasse 4, between 1906 and 1908 at Marktplatz 6, then in Promenadestrasse 4 again. Since 1929, they also ran a spa board in Promenadestrasse 2.

At the end of the 1930s, Regina Tachauer lived in Maxstrasse 10 with her husband before the two of them emigrated to London in June 1937 where their daughter Hilde had already fled a year before. Their son Sally also succeeded in escaping to England. Their daughter Gisela could flee from annihilation by Nazi tyranny, too. She first emigrated to England, but in March 1939, she went on board the “Ile de France” in Southampton and emigrated to New York. In the US Naturalization Register is noted that Gisela Plaut, née Tachauer (in the meantime married to Max Plaut) was naturalized in New York at the end of 1944. She married a second time there and had the family name of Feuchtwanger afterwards.

Regina’s brother Alfred and his family could also emigrate to the United States. But their two sisters Hedwig and Rosa were deported and murdered. Regina Tachauer lived in the England’s South East south of London with her husband. 

He died in Surrey in 1949, Regina died in Sussex in 1953.