Consistoire Mainz
The Consistoire Mainz , based in the city of Mainz , was created like the Consistoire central israélite and another twelve regional consistories by Napoleon by an imperial decree of March 15, 1808. The areas on the left bank of the Rhine were incorporated into the territory of the French state until 1814 .
tasks
The consistories, which were given semi-state status, were supposed to regulate the internal affairs of the Jewish religious community based on the Protestant model . The consistory had to administer the cult, to encourage the Jews to exercise useful professions and to nominate the Jewish recruits to the authorities .
At the top of the three-tier hierarchical structure was the Consistoire central israélite (Central Consistory) in Paris , to which the regional consistories (Consistoires régionaux) were subordinate, to which the individual Jewish communities (communautés juives) were subordinate. The consistories had the task of supervising the practice of religion within the state laws and of setting and collecting taxes so that the organs of the Jewish denomination could meet their expenses.
Each regional consistory had a chief rabbi and four lay members who were elected by the Jewish notables of the affiliated communities. The Mainz chief rabbi was Samuel Wolf Levi (1751–1813).
After Napoleon's defeat in 1814, the areas on the left bank of the Rhine were redistributed at the Congress of Vienna and the French laws on the organization of Jewish residents became ineffective.
area
The consistory Mainz was for the Jewish communities of the department of Mont-Tonnerre responsible. In 1808, 11,122 Jewish citizens ( Citoyen ) lived in the department .
Parishes (1808)
- Jewish community Mainz , 1,264 people
literature
- Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. France et Algérie, du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation (1905) . Berg International Éditeurs, Paris 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Membres du Grand Sanhédrin ; Fritz Reuter: Samuel Wolf Levi (1751-1813), rabbi in Worms and Mainz . In: Mainzer Zeitschrift Vol. 96–97, 2001–2002, pp. 163–168.
