Hermann Ostfeld

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Hermann Ostfeld ( February 10, 1912 in Hamborn ( Duisburg ) - 1996 in Tel Aviv ), after 1951 Zvi Hermon , was a German rabbi as well as a criminologist, psychotherapist and judicial officer in Israel.

biography

Hermann Ostfeld grew up in Hamborn in a Jewish family from Bukowina . In 1930 he graduated from high school. From 1930 he studied at the University for the Science of Judaism and the University of Berlin, and at the same time at the University of Würzburg. There, in 1933, with his work The Attitude of the Reichstag Group of the Progressive People's Party on the annexation and peace issues in the years 1914–1918, he became a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1935 he received the university's rabbinical diploma and in the same year took up the post of rabbi for the community of Göttingen . A little later he also took over the district rabbinate of southern Lower Saxony.

In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine, then worked as a research assistant, studied social welfare and trained in psychoanalysis. After leading positions in the Ministry of Social Affairs in Haifa from 1942 to 1950, he became director of prison administration in Israel in 1952.

Ostfeld / Hermon was a lecturer in the penal system at the Universities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and held visiting lectureships and professorships in Germany, Canada and the USA from 1968 to 1973. As "Departmental Editor" for the criminology section and author of related articles, he contributed to the Encyclopaedia Judaica .

Hermann Ostfeld is considered a reformer of the prison system in Israel. The Israeli prison Hermon is named after him.

Works

  • The position of the Reichstag parliamentary group of the Progressive People's Party on the annexation and peace issues in the years 1914-1918 , Kallmünz 1934
  • From pastor to criminologist , Göttingen: Schwartz 1990

literature

  • Zvi Hermon: From pastor to criminologist , Göttingen: Schwartz 1990
  • Uta Schäfer-Richter, Jörg Klein: The Jewish Citizens in the Göttingen District, 1933–1945. A memorial book, Göttingen: Wallstein 1992
  • Biographical Handbook of Rabbis, ed. by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach, part 2, volume 1, Munich 2009, p. 472f.
personal data
SURNAME Ostfeld, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermon, Zvi (later name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi, criminologist, psychotherapist and judicial officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamborn
DATE OF DEATH 1996
Place of death Tel Aviv