Georg Minden

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Georg Minden

Georg Minden ( August 31, 1850 in Berlin ; † January 17, 1928 ) was a German administrative lawyer and chairman of the reform Jewish community in Berlin.

Life

Minden was the only son of the traveling salesman and silk goods dealer Leopold Minden (1822–1902), an early and later honorary member of Samuel Holdheim's Berlin Reform Cooperative , and his wife Henriette, née. Oppenheim. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg and became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg in 1869 . After the state examination in law and the doctorate to Dr. jur. he became a judge at the district court of Berlin, then an alderman in the magistrate of Berlin . In 1884 he became the syndic of the municipal Pfandbriefamt in Berlin and in 1905 its director. Georg Minden was a privy councilor .

Georg Minden was for many years the head of the reform Jewish community in Berlin. He had been a member of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish Congregations in Berlin since 1886 and was also its chairman from 1915 to 1921. His house was one of the social focal points of Jewish life in Berlin when he was most active. Minden was a member of the board of trustees of the Zunz Foundation , established in 1864 , which existed until 1939 and whose archive is now in the manuscripts department of the Jerusalem National Library.

He was a sponsor of the Berlin Museum of Ethnology and the Berlin Anthropological Society , for which he donated the Rudolf Virchow Plaque, a predecessor of the Rudolf Virchow Prize . In 1889 he was a member of the founding committee for the museum for German folk costumes and household products .

tomb

His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Fonts

  • In memory of Leopold J. Minden, b. 19 Aug 1822 in Berlin, died 27 Nov 1902 in Berlin. Berlin: Rosenthal 1903
  • Magine Rèim <Association for Mutual Aid> 1804-1904. A look back over 100 years. (Author: Dr. J [eremias] Heinemann; continued by Dr. jur. Georg Minden) Berlin: L. Borchardt 1904

literature

  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 628
  • Max P. Birnbaum: State and Synagogue, 1918-1938: a history of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities (1918-1938) , Mohr Siebeck, 1981, p. 52 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacob Jacobson: The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851. With additions for the years 1791–1809. Berlin: De Gruyter 1962 ISBN 3-1100-0448-8 , p. 424 No. 2259
  2. ↑ Felix Hirsch: Das Haus Minden in: Gegenwart in Rückblick , Heidelberg 1970, p. 257 ff.
  3. ↑ http://www.jewish-archives.org/
  4. ^ Jacob Jacobson: The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851. With additions for the years 1791–1809. Berlin: De Gruyter 1962 ISBN 3-1100-0448-8 , p. 424 No. 2259
personal data
SURNAME Minden, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and chairman of the reform Jewish community in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1928