District rabbinate Schmieheim
The district rabbinate Schmieheim was established in Schmieheim in Baden in 1827 and was one of 15 district rabbinates , which were also known as district synagogues. In 1893 the rabbinical seat was relocated to Offenburg .
The district rabbinates were directly subordinate to the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden . The chiefs were the district rabbi and the district elder. In matters of the rabbinical district, all local elders had to be heard once a year. The district rabbi presided.
tasks
The tasks included the execution of the sovereign ordinances, the proclamation and the enforcement of the ordinances of the higher church authority , advice on school matters, the administration of foundations and the distribution of alms . To finance the district rabbinates, levies were paid by the individual Jewish communities.
Parishes of the rabbinical district
- Jewish community Altdorf (Ettenheim)
- Diersburg Jewish Community
- Jewish community Durbach
- Ettenheim Jewish community
- Jewish community of Friesenheim
- Jewish community Kippenheim
- Jewish community of Lahr (founded in 1888)
- Jewish community of Nonnenweier
- Jewish community Offenburg (newly founded in 1865)
- Jewish community of Orschweier (Mahlberg)
- Jewish community of Rust
- Jewish community Schmieheim
District rabbi
- 1827 to 1847 Joseph Günzburger
- 1847 to 1875 Roos merchant
- 1876 to 1913 Victor Meyer Rawicz (* 1846 in Breslau ; died 1915 in Berlin ), 1874 rabbi in Kempen (Posen)
- 1913 to 1914 Alex Lewin , rabbinate corrupt
- 1915 to 1919 Hugo Hahn (* 1893 in Tiengen ; died 1965 in New York ), rabbinical vicar in Offenburg 1915 , rabbi in Essen from 1922 to 1939 , emigrated to the USA in 1939 , rabbi of the Habonim Congregation in New York until 1957/1965
- 1919 to 1923 Ruben (Rubin) Halpersohn (* 1885 Breslau; died in 1941 in Ghetto Kovno ), after his time in Offenburg worked in his father-in-law's shop in Karlsruhe, later in Breslau, from here in 1941 deported
- 1926 to 1932 Isidor Zlocisti (* 1878 in Berlin; died 1932/33 in Mannheim ), 1920 to 1925 city rabbi in Mannheim , later pedagogical adviser to the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden
- 1932 to 1935 Siegfried Ucko (* 1905 in Gleiwitz ; died 1976 in Israel ), 1931 to 1932 youth rabbi in Mannheim, emigrated to Israel after his time in Offenburg, head of a kindergarten teachers' seminar in Tel Aviv , later professor of education in Jerusalem
- 1935 to 1936 Herbert Finkelscherer (* 1903 in Munich , murdered 1942 Treblinka or Auschwitz ), 1936 to 1939 in Munich, 1939 to 1940 rabbi in Stettin , deported to Piaski
- 1936 Siegfried Scheuermann (* 1910 in Frankfurt am Main ; died soon after his emigration to the USA in North Carolina ), representation of the rabbinate by the district rabbi of Freiburg , from 1936 to 1938 rabbi in Freiburg im Breisgau , after the 1938 pogrom in November in Dachau concentration camp delivered
- 1938 Bernhard Gries (born April 23, 1917 in Landeshut / Silesia; died December 4, 1938 in Buchenwald concentration camp ), son of Oskar Gries and Hertha Licht, worked in Offenburg in September / October 1938 after studying at the rabbinical seminary in Breslau , then in Jewish orphanage in Wroclaw
Web links
literature
- Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities . Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany . Volume 4)