District rabbinate Weilburg

The District Rabbinate Weilburg , based in Weilburg , a town in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse , was established in 1843.

In 1925, the previously independent rabbinical districts Bad Ems and Weilburg were merged to form the rabbinical district Bad Ems and Weilburg .

District rabbi

• 1843 to 1844: Samuel Süßkind (1811–1894)
• 1844 to 1860: Abraham Treuenfels
• 1860 to 1880: Salomon Wormser (1814–1887)
• 1880 to 1887: Israel Goldschmidt (1849–1924)
• 1887 to 1890: Samuel Hirsch Margulies (1858–1922)
• 1890 to 1892: Abraham Lewinsky (1866–1941), then land rabbi of Hildesheim (1892–1935).
• 1893 to 1924: Emil Elias Landau (1842–1924), after his death in 1924 the Rabbinate Weilburg was merged with Bad Ems.
• From 1890 to 1931 the rabbi Laser Weingarten (1863–1937) initially held office in Bad Ems. From 1924 he was responsible for the united district rabbinate.
• From 1931 to 1939 the last rabbi was Friedrich Laupheimer (1890–1965), who emigrated to Palestine in 1939 .

District rabbinate parishes

• Dornburg Jewish community
• Ellar Jewish Community
• Jewish community of Hachenburg
• Hadamar Jewish Community
• Herborn Jewish community
• Jewish community of Weilburg
• Jewish community of Westerburg

Web links

• Description at Alemannia Judaica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Schneider, The Jewish community in Hildesheim: 1871 - 1942 , Hildesheim: Stadtarchiv, 2003, (= series of publications of the city archive and the city library Hildesheim / city archive and city library Hildesheim. - Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1978-; vol. 31), also. : Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 1999, pp. 8-11 in Chap. 5. The Hildesheim rabbis. ISBN 3-931987-11-6 .