How old is Richard Eherenberg, former technical editor for Mopar Action magazine and automotive journalist
Executive summary
No reliable, contemporaneous source in the provided reporting identifies a “Richard Eherenberg” (or an exact variant spelling) as the former technical editor of Mopar Action magazine, and therefore the person’s present age cannot be determined from these sources; the documents returned by name searches point to multiple different Richard Ehrenberg/Erenberg individuals across centuries and public-record databases, none of which are clearly the Mopar Action technical editor [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. The available records instead illustrate how name collisions and low-quality people-search results can produce conflicting ages and identities [3] [4] [6].
1. What the sources actually show about people named Richard Ehrenberg
The editorial and historical sources in the search results mostly concern other men named Richard Ehrenberg: a German economist born in 1857 who died in 1921, documented in encyclopedia and archival sources [1] [7] [5], and a U.S. obituary for a Richard “Rick” Allen Ehrenberg born May 19, 1966 who died in 2011 at age 44 [2]. Several commercial people‑search services return multiple contemporary records under the name Richard Ehrenberg with widely varying ages—one database lists a Richard Russell Ehrenberg as born December 1940 (age ~78) while aggregators show ranges from the 40s to 110s—illustrating inconsistent, unverified public‑record aggregation rather than a single authoritative identity [3] [4] [6].
2. Why none of these sources can be taken as proof of the Mopar Action editor’s age
None of the provided sources link any of the listed Richard Ehrenberg/Erenberg entries to Mopar Action magazine or to the job title “technical editor,” so using them to state the age of the Mopar Action figure would be speculation beyond the materials supplied [1] [2] [3]. The encyclopedia and archival citations clearly refer to a 19th–early 20th‑century German economist, an impossible match for a contemporary automotive magazine editor [1] [7]. The obituary reflects a specific U.S. individual who died in 2011 and therefore cannot answer how old a living former technical editor would be today [2]. Commercial people‑search results are prone to erroneous merging of records and lack editorial verification; they are therefore unreliable as definitive identification without corroboration from Mopar Action, the subject’s own bylines, or reputable journalistic or institutional records [3] [4] [6].
3. How to interpret conflicting people‑search outputs and historical matches
Commercial aggregators commonly draw from phone books, license records and user‑contributed data and can produce multiple candidate ages for a common name; the same name appearing with birthdates in 1857, 1940, 1966, and various contemporary ages in the dataset shows the danger of conflating different individuals into one identity [1] [2] [3] [4]. Scholarly or archival sources (for example, the economist’s publications and university records) are authoritative for that historical figure but irrelevant to an automotive journalist; by contrast, obituary notices are authoritative about the decedent but must not be repurposed to identify differently described living persons [1] [2]. The proper journalistic next step—outside the supplied documents—would be to check Mopar Action mastheads, byline archives, LinkedIn or direct confirmation from the magazine’s parent publisher, none of which appear among the provided sources.
4. Bottom line and limitations of this report
Based solely on the supplied reporting, it is not possible to state how old “Richard Eherenberg, former technical editor for Mopar Action magazine and automotive journalist” is today, because no source in the dataset connects that job title to any verifiable individual record or birthdate [1] [2] [3] [4]. The results returned illustrate multiple different people named Richard Ehrenberg across history and public‑record aggregators, and they underscore the need for a direct editorial or authorial source from Mopar Action or a reputable biographical entry to answer the question definitively [1] [2] [3]. If an authoritative age is required, the necessary next reporting steps are to consult Mopar Action’s masthead archives, publisher records, byline histories, or a directly attributable bio—none of which are present in the provided material, so this analysis stops short of inventing a link.