David Braunschweiger

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David Braunschweiger (born August 6, 1875 in Würzburg ; died May 1, 1928 in Opole ) was a German rabbi and author.

Life

In the synagogue on Hafenstrasse in Opole , David Braunschweiger served as a rabbi from 1917 until his death ;
Photo from 1930 of the building destroyed in the Reichspogromnacht in 1938

David Braunschweiger was born as the son of the teacher Moses Braunschweiger (1838–1913) in Würzburg during the founding of the German Empire . He studied at the universities in his hometown of Würzburg as well as in Berlin and obtained his doctorate in 1899 at the Julius Maximilians University under Oswald Külpe on the subject of The Study of Attention in 18th Century Psychology .

In the meantime, Braunschweiger had already attended the rabbinical seminar in Berlin from 1894 to 1900 and later from 1909 to 1911 before he received his diploma as a rabbi on November 12, 1911 . In the meantime he had given a funeral oration for the writer Isaak Hirsch in Hanover on December 8, 1899 , and worked from 1900 and until 1912 in Upper Silesia as a rabbinical assessor and religion teacher in what was then Katowice at the local secondary school, the local grammar school and higher education Daughter's school on site. In 1903 he was also the founder of the Katowice Association for youth worship .

After David Braunschweiger took over the position of rabbi in Rybnik at the synagogue there in 1912 , he applied to be a rabbi in Braunschweig in the middle of the First World War in 1916 , but from 1917/1918 to 1928 he performed the duties of rabbi in Opole .

Braunschweiger was a member of the main board of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith and was chairman of the Upper Silesian Regional Association. He was also chairman of the Association of Rabbis of Upper Silesia and headed the Association of Jewish Literature Associations in Upper Silesia. He was a member of the B'nai B'rith and president of the Freedom Lodge in Opole, which was part of this union , and was also a member of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities. In 1927 he was elected to the honorary committee of the welfare lottery of the working group to fight tuberculosis among the Jews .

Tomb

David Braunschweiger was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Groß-Strehlitz (Strzelce Opolskie).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach (editor) et al .: 2051 Braunschweiger, David, Dr. , in this: The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44107-3 and ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 101; Preview over google books
  2. Helmut F. Pfanner : Karl Jakob Hirsch. Writer, artist and exile. A biography with a work history , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, circa 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3947-8 , pp. 19–22; Preview over google books