When Anton Paul Brachthäuser was born on 12 January 1902, his father, Wilhelm Brachthäuser, was 33 and his mother, Elisabeth Meier, was 32. He married Margarete Karbaum on 23 September 1932. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 26 February 1979, in Lüdenscheid, Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the age of 77.