May 8, 1905 – July 10, 1989
A native of Connecticut, Karl Henry Reichenbach earned his graduate degree in history at Yale in 1929 and was assistant professor at the University of Michigan, teaching there for 44 years. During the 1950s, he was part of an Ann Arbor gay crowd that attended parties hosted by Henry Van Dyke. As his “drag” name at such events, Reichenbach was known as “Frieda.”
Ann Arbor News, July 12, 1989
Michigan LGBTQ Remember 