Abraham Swiss

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Stumbling block for Abraham Schweizer in front of the former Latin school in Esslingen

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.

Stumbling block for Abraham Schweizer in front of his last freely chosen place of residence at Gymnasiumstraße 23 in Stuttgart

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

"Dr.-Abraham-Schweizer-Platz" in Horb
  • 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved March 11, 2011.
  2. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved March 11, 2011.
personal data
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