Emil Kronheim

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Emil Kronheim (born April 24, 1890 in Guttstadt in Warmia ; died September 20, 1971 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a German and Swedish rabbi .

Life

Emil Kronheim first visited the elementary schools in Guttstatt and Braunsberg . He passed his Abitur at Easter 1909 at the Braunsberg Lyceum Hosianum . During the First World War he was mobilized in 1915 and served first as a military nurse, later as a soldier in the 17th Army in Russia, Italy, France and then as a field rabbi in France and Belgium. In 1917 he passed the rabbinical exam at the College for the Science of Judaism (HWJ) in Berlin.

From March 1, 1919 to 1924, he worked as the second rabbi and taught as a religion teacher in Dortmund. In 1924 he married Ruth Kullick (1892–1976) from Havelberg . In the period 1925/26 Emil Kronheim taught as an academic religion teacher for the Israelite Religious Society in Frankfurt am Main .

Emil Kronheim emigrated to Sweden and from June 1, 1926 was second rabbi in Stockholm's Mosaiska Församling in Stockholm. In 1933 he received Swedish citizenship and was heavily involved in social and pastoral work as well as in helping refugees. He was the founder of the Peace Lodge and was elected President of the "Fredloge UOBB " for the period from 1949 to 1951 . In 1963 he went into retirement.

Awards

Fonts

  • as editor: Anniversary half tillägnet Marcus Ehrenpreis på hans sjuttiofemårsdag . Judisk Tidskrift, Stockholm 1944.

literature

  • Renate Knoll: Emil Kronheim (1890–1971). Rabbi and founder of the Peace Lodge. With three sermons by the former Braunsberg high school student from the estate . Northeast German Cultural Work, 2000.
  • Kronheim, Emil in; Michael Brocke (Hrsg.), Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 . Volume 1: Aaron - Kusnitzki. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , pp. 356-357. (Digitized version)
  • Anne E. Dünzelmann : Stockholm walks. On the trail of German exiles 1933–1945 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-74482-995-3 , p. 105. (digitized version)

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personal data
SURNAME Kronheim, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Swedish rabbis
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Guttstadt , Warmia
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1971
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden