District rabbinate Augsburg

The Augsburg District Rabbinate was established in 1862 in Augsburg , the capital of the Swabian administrative district in Bavaria .

After the founding of the Augsburg Jewish community in 1861, the Kriegshaber district rabbinate was relocated to Augsburg in 1862 . In 1870 the Altenstadt district rabbinate was dissolved and the two Jewish communities were placed under the Augsburg district rabbinate.

tasks

The duties included advising on school matters, managing foundations and distributing alms . To finance the district rabbinates, levies were paid by the individual Jewish communities.

District rabbinate congregations

• Jewish community Altenstadt (Iller) (until 1869 at the Altenstadt district rabbinate )
• Jewish community Augsburg
• Jewish community Fellheim (from 1878)
• Jewish community of Kriegshaber
• Jewish community of Memmingen
• Jewish community Osterberg (until 1869 at the Altenstadt district rabbinate)
• Jewish community of Pfersee
• Steppach Jewish community

District rabbi

• 1863 to 1870 Jakob Heinrich Hirschfeld
• 1875 to 1910 Heinrich Groß (rabbi)
• 1910 to 1925 Richard Grünfeld
• 1925 to 1939 Ernst Jacob (rabbi)

literature

• More than stones ... Synagogue memorial band Bavaria. Volume I . Edited by Wolfgang Kraus, Berndt Hamm and Meier Schwarz . Developed by Barbara Eberhardt and Angela Hager with the assistance of Cornelia Berger-Dittscheid, Hans Christof Haas and Frank Purrmann. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-411-3 .

Web links

• Jewish community Augsburg near Alemannia Judaica