Ernst Appel
Ernst Appel (born April 1, 1884 in Homburg vor der Höhe ; died June 9, 1973 in St. Louis , Missouri , USA ) was a German rabbi in Bingen am Rhein and Dortmund . After emigrating to the United States in 1937 , he was also active as a rabbi in Jackson , Tennessee , until 1969 .
Life
Ernst Appel was the son of Rabbi Meyer Appel and his wife Anna, née Willstätter, daughter of Rabbi Benjamin Willstätter. Appel visited the Lemle-Moses-Klaus in Mannheim . In 1902 he passed the Abitur at the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Karlsruhe . In 1902 he studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and at the University of Breslau , 1904 at the College of Jewish Studies and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and in 1904 in Munich for his work exegetical-critical contributions to Corrippus with special consideration of the vulgar element of the language for Dr. phil. PhD . He took his Semicha in 1910/11 and was then called to Bingen am Rhein as a rabbi.
In 1918 he married his wife Marta, née Insel, and had two daughters with her.
In 1927 he became a rabbi in Dortmund, where he celebrated his 25th anniversary in office in the autumn of 1935. He was co-editor of the Jüdischer Gemeindeblatt for Dortmund and the surrounding area and, together with his wife, looked after the community members. During the Nazi era he was under constant surveillance by the Secret State Police (Gestapo) and was increasingly put under pressure. In April 1937 he and his wife were arrested during the dissolution of the Independent Order Bne Briss , of which they were chairman, and then released. In May of that year, the family fled to relatives in the United States via Holland. Ernst Appel served as rabbi in Jackson (Tennessee) until 1969 and died in 1973, his wife died in California in 1980.
literature
- Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach , Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis - Volume 2. KG Saur, Munich 2004, pp. 16, 17 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Appel, Ernst. Hessian biography. (As of January 22, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bingen am Rhein (Mainz-Bingen district) - Jewish history / synagogue on the Alemannia Judaica homepage . Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Appel. In: Günter Birkmann, Hartmut Stratmann, Thomas Kohlpoth: Consider who you are standing in front of. 300 synagogues and their history in Westphalia and Lippe. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-661-8 .
- ↑ Appel, Marta. In: Gudrun Wedel: autobiographies of women. A lexicon. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 2010, p. 9.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Appel, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Rabbis in Bingen am Rhein and in Dortmund |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Homburg vor der Höhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1973 |
| Place of death | St. Louis , Missouri , USA |