Georg Salzberger
Georg Salzberger (born December 23, 1882 in Culm in the province of West Prussia , † December 19, 1975 in London ) was a German rabbi and publicist .
Life
Georg Salzberger was the son of the rabbi Moritz Salzberger and his wife Anna, nee. Freyhan. The family moved to Erfurt in 1886, where Moritz Salzberger was rabbi until 1923. Georg Salzberger attended the Royal High School in Erfurt from 1892 and graduated from high school there in 1902. Salzberger studied from 1901 at the College for the Science of Judaism and the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg . At the same time he was a religion teacher at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium and a teacher at Marie Kutnewsky's Israelite boarding school in Berlin.
In June 1907 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with magna cum laude , the title of his dissertation is The Salomosage in Semitic Literature: a contribution to comparative legends . In 1909 he was ordained at the College for the Science of Judaism. From 1910 to 1937 Salzberger was rabbi of the liberal Westend synagogue in Frankfurt am Main .
From 1914 to 1918 Salzberger served as a field rabbi in the 5th Army of the German Army . He received the Iron Cross before Verdun .
In 1917 he married Nenny (Natalie Charlotte) Caro, the couple had three daughters.
1910–1914 and 1919–1931, Salzberger taught at the Frankfurt Philanthropist . From 1910 he was a member of the Frankfurt lodge of the B'nai B'rith , in 1928 he became president of this lodge. 1920–1939 Salzberger was active in the Society for Jewish National Education as a co-founder and chairman of the board. He participated in the establishment of the Free Jewish Teaching House , a center for Jewish adult education. There he gave lectures together with Franz Rosenzweig and others. In 1934, Salzberger became chairman of the newly founded Kulturbund Deutscher Juden for Frankfurt / M. and the Rhine-Main district .
In 1938, Salzberger was deported to the Dachau concentration camp . In April 1939 he was expelled from Germany with his wife and two daughters and went to London, where his eldest daughter was already living. There, Salzberger was a co-founder and from 1939 to 1956 rabbi of the New Liberal Jewish Congregation (today Belsize Square Synagogue ), the only German-speaking Jewish community in London. During the Second World War, Salzberger worked as a broadcaster for the BBC . From 1941 to 1975, Salzberger was a board member of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) . Under the direction of the AJR Charitable Trust , he founded the Georg and Charlotte Salzberger Fund . In 1950, Salzberger took part in the inauguration of the rebuilt Westend Synagogue in Frankfurt / Main and gave the main address. In 1956, Salzberger retired, but was still active as a gastrabbi in the Jewish communities of Berlin and Hamburg from 1957 to 1971. Salzberger was a member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism , the World Congress of Faiths and the International Council of Christians and Jews .
honors and awards
- Iron Cross 2nd class in the First World War
- 1962 Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1972 Buber Rosenzweig Medal
Works
- The Solomon saga in Semitic literature: a contribution to comparative saga. 1907, new edition: Nabu Press, 2011, ISBN 1270906410
- Solomon's temple and throne in Semitic sagas. Berlin, 1912
- From my war diary. From the chaplain in the 5th Army. 1916
- The divine mission. 1917
- The religious-liberal movement in modern German Jewry . In: Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Leo Baeck on May 23, 1953, London [1953], pp. 50–55.
- Brotherhood as a requirement of the religions. Published by the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, 1954
- The Talmud. Its origin and meaning. 1966
Web links
- Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach: Biographical Handbook of Rabbis, Volume 2 . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 359844107X , pp. 532-534
- An autobiographical sketch and portraits of Georg Salzberger available online from the Leo Baeck Institute , New York, accessed on September 28, 2013
- In the original: an excerpt from Georg Salzberger's celebratory speech on the rededication of the Westend Synagogue in Frankfurt (listening quote 10) and a portrait of Georg Salzberger made available by the German Broadcasting Archive , accessed on September 28, 2013
literature
- Albert H. Friedlaender (Ed.): Life and teaching / Georg Salzberger , Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1982, ISBN 3782902599
- Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach: Biographical Handbook of Rabbis, Volume 2 . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 359844107X , pp. 532-534
Individual evidence
- ^ New edition: G. Salzberger: The Salomo Sage in Semitic Literature: A Contribution to Comparative Sagenkunde. Nabu Press, 2011, ISBN 1270906410
- ↑ Website of the Belsize Square Synagogue , see section In the beginning .
- ↑ Harald Schmid: Remembering the "day of guilt": the November pogrom of 1938 in German historical politics. Results Verlag, 2001, p. 171, ISBN 3879160627
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salzberger, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Culm |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 1975 |
| Place of death | London |