David Geissmar

David Geissmar , also: Geismar ( 1797 in Breisach am Rhein , Upper Austria - 1879 in Alzey , Grand Duchy of Hesse ) was a district rabbi in Baden with a moderate liberal orientation.

David Geissmar was the son of Jakob Geismar and Süssel, née Schwob, and while studying the Talmud in Fürth he married Jette, née Falkenau (1799–1861), a daughter of the Dayan Josua Moses Falkenau. After receiving his rabbinical diplomas in Fürth and Karlsruhe , he became a (unpaid) rabbi in Breisach around 1820 and then a rabbi in Eppingen around 1824 . From March 1827 he became a district rabbi in Sinsheim . From 1848 he was a member of the religious conference of the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden . David Geissmar introduced the synagogue choir, but rejected the organ in the synagogue .

After his retirement in 1874, he lived with his son, the lawyer Joseph Geißmar in Mannheim . His granddaughter was the doctor Johanna Geissmar (1877–1942) who was murdered in Auschwitz .

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Isaac Markus Jost (Ed.): Israelitische Annalen. Frankfurt am Main 1840, p. 38, p. 267.
General newspaper of Judaism. An impartial organ for all Jewish interests in politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , Volume IV, No. 7, Leipzig 1840, p. 91 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
The Israelite. A central organ for Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Marcus Lehmann , Volume 8, No. 46, Mainz 1867, p. 796 ( digital version with compact memory ).
Berthold Rosenthal : Home history of the Baden Jews from their historical appearance to the present. Konkordia, Bühl 1927 (Reprint: Bissinger, Magstadt bei Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7644-0092-7 ), p. 362, p. 368.
Wilhelm Bauer: The former Jewish community of Sinsheim. Their story and their fate . In: Sinsheimer Hefte , No. 10 (November 1995), pp. 25-28.
Andreas Brämer : Rabbi and board member. On the history of the Jewish community in Germany and Austria 1808-1871. Vienna 1999, p. 148.
Entry GEISMAR, David. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, p. 365 f.