Career
His records were the base of the German Records Collection of the Family History Library as well as the main initial component of the Deutsche Zentralstelle fur Genealogie. Many of the records Langheinrich gathered were hid in mines and other out of the way places in East Germany. He microfilmed many records that he was not able to move, and most of those were destroyed.
Langheinrich was born in Oberplanitz in the state of Saxony then part of the German Empire.
He was a Latter-day Saint. Because of his membership in the church he became interested in genealogy.
He was heavily involved in collecting genealogical records between the end of World World War II and the end of 1953 when he emigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah.
