District rabbinate Regensburg

The Distriktsrabbinat Regensburg was built according to the rules of the Bavarian Jews Edict of 1813 in Regensburg .

In 1931 the Sulzbürg District Rabbinate , based in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, merged with the Regensburg District Rabbinate to form the new Regensburg-Neumarkt District Rabbinate. After the retirement of Rabbi Magnus Weinberg on December 31, 1935, the Regensburg-Neumarkt Rabbinate was merged with the Bayreuth District Rabbinate and the Rabbinate Hof in 1936 .

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 of Landshut
• Jewish community of Passau
• Jewish community of Regensburg
• Jewish community of Straubing

District rabbi

• 1801 to 1832 Jacob Seligmann Weil
• 1836 to 1849 Seligmann Schlenker and Emanuel Sonnentheil (both together as rabbinical administrators )
• 1849 to 1860 Seligmann Schlenker (died 1860)
• 1860 to 1880 Mayer Löwenmayer ( district rabbi in Sulzbürg as rabbinical administrator)
• 1881 to 1925 Seligmann Meyer
• 1927 to 1931 Harry Levy
• 1931 to 1935 Magnus Weinberg
• 1936 Falk Felix Benjamin Salomon (emigrated after 1938)

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 of Regensburg near Alemannia Judaica