Fritz Bloch

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Fritz Elieser Bloch (born March 21, 1903 in Munich ; died 1979 in Stuttgart ) was a German rabbi.

Life

Fritz Bloch was the son of the merchant Julius Bloch and Eugenie Hochstädter. As a teenager he was a member of Blau-Weiß München. From 1922 to 1926 he trained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and received his doctorate in 1926 from the University of Breslau . He led the Misrachi hiking group in Wroclaw. He attended the Telsche Yeshiva in Telšiai , Lithuania , the Yeshivot in Mir (at the time) Polish and the Rabbinical Seminar in Berlin . In 1931 he married the doctor Anna Großwirth, who was born in Nowy Dwór in 1904 , and they had four children.

In 1932 he was employed as a district rabbi at the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) in Aschaffenburg . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, an elementary school for Jews had to be set up in Aschaffenburg for racist reasons , where Bloch became a teacher. Bloch was chairman of the Talmud Torah Association and from 1937 chairman of the committee of the (Bavarian) district rabbinate. After the German November pogroms in 1938, Bloch emigrated to Palestine , where he made his way as a spice trader until he found a job in the Israeli Ministry of Finance.

Bloch returned in 1953 to Germany and was in Stuttgart as the successor Siegbert Neufeld's chief rabbi of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and 1972, Chief Rabbi of Baden-Wuerttemberg and was temporarily chairman of the Rabbinical Conference for the Federal Republic of Germany . Bloch received teaching positions for Yiddish and for the history of Judaism at the Institutum Judaicum of the University of Tübingen .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Jews in Militsch. A chapter in the history of the settlement of Jews in Silesia . Wroclaw 1926
  • Judaism in Bavaria before its destruction , in: Udim , 1970

literature

  • Bloch, Fritz Elieser , in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire 1871–1945. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 82
  • Bloch, Fritz Elieser , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 37
  • Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933–1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner, 1991, p. 203

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neufeld, Siegbert Jizchak, Dr. , at Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute , BHR, 2, pp. 390-392
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloch, Fritz Elieser
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death Stuttgart