Albert Wolf (rabbi)

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Star of David of the old synagogue in the New Synagogue Dresden
Interior of the Semper Synagogue

Albert Wolf (born March 31, 1890 in Buchen ; died 1951 in Chicago ) was a rabbi in Dresden from 1920 to 1938. In the pogrom night of November 10, 1938, he was arrested and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp , but was able to emigrate to the USA in 1939.

Life

Albert Wolf studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau with "Professor Levy" and was already a great admirer of Jakob Winter during his student days .

From November 1914 he worked as a rabbinical vicar in Offenburg , but was called up for military service in the same month. In 1917 he was an auxiliary rabbi in the German army.

In 1919 Albert Wolf married his wife Emmy.

In 1920 he took up his post as rabbi in the Israelite community of Dresden at the side of Jakob Winter and took over the official duties during the latter's four years of life (1936–1940).

Like Jakob Winter, Albert Wolf was a member of the Fraternitas Lodge in Dresden.

During the pogrom night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, he was deported with numerous other Dresden Jews to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where, according to eyewitnesses, he was horribly mistreated. In 1939 he was released and returned to Dresden at short notice.

In March 1939 Albert Wolf emigrated to England and a year later to Chicago, where he worked as a rabbi until his death in 1951.

Honor

Albert-Wolf-Platz

In 1993 the former Wilhelm-Koenen- Platz in Dresden- Prohlis was renamed Albert-Wolf-Platz .

literature

  • Kerstin Hagemeyer: Jewish life in Dresden. Exhibition on the occasion of the consecration of the new Dresden synagogue on November 9, 2001 . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-910005-27-6 .
  • Adolf Diamant: Chronicle of the Jews in Dresden. Darmstadt 1973, p. 102f.
  • Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Volume 2, Berlin 2009.
  • Ingrid Kirsch: Albert Wolf . In: Jüdische Gemeinde zu Dresden, Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Hrsg.): Once & Now: On the history of the Dresden synagogue and its community. ddp Goldenbogen, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-932434-13-7 , pp. 172-173.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ cf. Biography of Albert Wolf ( memento from October 5, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at gepam.eu
  2. ↑ probably Israel Lewy
  3. ↑ s. a. Biography of Jakob Winter ( memento from October 5, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at gepam.eu
  4. ^ Albert-Wolf-Platz - description at dresdner-stadtteile.de, accessed October 5, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Book
DATE OF DEATH 1951
Place of death Chicago