Abraham Weil

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Grave of Abraham Weil; Jewish cemetery Frankenthal (Palatinate)

Abraham Weil (born January 30, 1834 in Ellerstadt ; † February 17, 1900 in Ludwigshafen-Oppau ) was a German tax officer of Jewish origin and an honorary citizen of the Leimersheim community in the Palatinate .

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Abraham Weil was of Jewish descent and came from Ellerstadt. He was born as the son of Ellerstadt merchant Salomon Weil (1800–1861) and his wife Helena Lea (née Meyer) from Bad Homburg in front of the height .

Weil worked as a royal Bavarian tax and community collector. At first he worked as a rent office assistant in Annweiler and in 1865 became a collector in Trippstadt .

In 1869 Abraham Weil was transferred from Trippstadt to Leimersheim in the Upper Palatinate at his own request. Here in 1875 he founded the Sparkasse community , which had a very beneficial effect on the development of the village. Therefore, Weil was made an honorary citizen of Leimersheim in 1884 and a street was named after him in 1963.

The official died in Ludwigshafen-Oppau in 1900 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Frankenthal (Palatinate) , where his gravestone has been preserved.

Abraham Weil married on February 22, 1869 in Kaiserslautern Berta nee. Seligmann (* 1847), who came from France and died in Mannheim on September 21, 1905. They had several children: Mathilda, born on August 18, 1882 in Leimersheim. She married Karl Fischel on June 13, 1901 in Mannheim, born on March 4, 1872 in Tilsit / East Prussia. They had 4 children. On November 22nd, 1937, the married couple Karl and Mathilda Fischel, nee. Because from Mannheim to the USA. They died in quick succession in 1972 and are the great-grandparents of Rabbi Suzanne H. Carter, who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, USA. Marie, born on August 7, 1873 in Leimersheim, Theresia, born on September 21, 1875 in Leimersheim, died on June 17, 1896 in Oppau, Ludwig, born on May 21, 1884 in Oppau, Albert, born on May 10, 1886 in Oppau, died on February 25, 1898 in Oppau. Her daughter Thekla Weil (* 1871) married the hotelier Richard Moldenhauer (1877–1963). These are in turn the parents of the well-known Mainz pianist and musicologist Hans Moldenhauer (1906–1987). The list of children is not complete.

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  1. ↑ Bavarian District Official Gazette of the Palatinate , 1865, page 401; Scan from the source
  2. ↑ Finanzministerial -Blatt for the Kingdom of Bavaria , year 1869, page 307 scan from the source
  3. ^ Letter from the Mannheim City Archives of November 27, 2001 to Ms. Suzanne H. Carter
  4. ^ Günther Weiss:  Moldenhauer, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 721 ( digitized version ). (with mention of the grandfather Abraham Weil)
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SURNAME Because, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian tax officer of Jewish descent; Honorary citizen of Leimersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Ellerstadt
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1900
Place of death Ludwigshafen-Oppau