Abraham Swiss
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Abraham Schweizer ( February 3, 1875 in Schopfloch - 1942 in the Treblinka extermination camp ) was a German rabbi who worked for a long time in Horb am Neckar .
family
Abraham Schweizer was born in Schopfloch as the son of the businessman Joseph Schweizer and his wife Jette. He was married to Zerlina Schweizer, née Bamberger (1880–1913). The son Aron Schweizer (1909–1943) was murdered in Auschwitz .
Life
Swiss attended high schools in Schwabach and Esslingen and then the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. After graduating from high school in 1896, he studied at the universities in Würzburg and Berlin . In the summer of 1900 he received his doctorate in Tübingen .
Abraham Schweizer was rabbi of the district rabbinate Weikersheim from 1900 to 1913 , which was dissolved in 1914. From 1913 to 1936 he was rabbi in Horb am Neckar , where he retired in 1936. From 1913 to 1936, Horb was the seat of a rabbinate that included the Jewish communities of the Horb district (including Tuttlingen ) and the Jewish communities of Rottweil , Reutlingen , Tübingen and Rottenburg am Neckar . Abraham Schweizer lived across from the prayer room in Horb, at Isenburger Strasse 5.
He was a board member of the Association of Baden-Württemberg Rabbis.
In 1936 Schweizer moved to Stuttgart at Gymnasiumstrasse 23. Schweizer was sent to the Dachau concentration camp for a few weeks in 1938 during the November pogroms . In 1941 he was admitted to Oberdorf am Ipf and deported from here on August 22, 1942 to Theresienstadt . on September 29, 1942 he was deported to Treblinka , where he was murdered.
Honors
- In 1917 he was awarded the Charlottenkreuz .
- The square in front of the Jewish prayer room in Horb was named "Dr.-Abraham-Schweizer-Platz" in 2010. A memorial plaque is intended to commemorate Abraham Schweizer.
Works
- The Israelites in the city and district of Horb. In: 700 years of Horb am Neckar, Horb am Neckar 1929.
- The Israelite community in Nordstetten. In: Community newspaper for the Israelite communities in Württemberg. 1926, 3rd year nos. 2, 4 and 5.
literature
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger : Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 207–220, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of synagogues in Germany . Volume 4)
Web links
- Andreas Ellinger: In honor of Rabbi Dr. Abraham Swiss. A place in the city's history . In: Neckar Chronicle of October 21, 2010
- Christof Schülke: In memory of Horb's only rabbi. In: Schwarzwälder Bote from October 20, 2010
- Literature by and about Abraham Schweizer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved March 11, 2011.
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SURNAME | Swiss, Abraham |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schopfloch (Middle Franconia) |
DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |
Place of death | Treblinka extermination camp |