Heymann Reichmann

Heymann Reichmann , Hebrew: Heyum Arje-Löb (born around 1809 in Rimpar near Würzburg ; died before 1877) was a German rabbi .

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Heymann Reichmann was the son of the dealer Samson Reichmann and Bella. In 1823 he went to the yeshiva von Wolf Hamburg in Fürth . On June 5, 1827, he took the religion teacher exam with Abraham Bing in Würzburg. From 1827 to 1835 he attended high school in Schweinfurt , where he passed the Abitur on August 24, 1835. On October 28 of the same year he enrolled at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he studied philosophy for four semesters. In May 1837 he passed the state examination in Bayreuth . At the same time Joseph Aub awarded him the rabbinical diploma ( Semicha ).

Then Reichmann returned to Würzburg , where he was tutor for several years, then he went to Harburg on the Elbe . In August 1844 he became court master at the banker RE Goldschmidt in Kassel . In 1846 he became the state rabbi of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Strelitz . In 1849 he got into a dispute with the synagogue's board of directors . He was accused of having "played the denunciator" under the reaction . He is also said to have turned away from reform and converted to orthodoxy . On February 17, 1850, the executive board resigned him, which resulted in a lawsuit lasting several years. On August 15, 1857, he received his doctorate from the University of Jena with the dissertation De Graecorum arte politica . From approx. 1860 to 1864 Reichmann was rabbi in Landsberg an der Warthe in the province of Brandenburg , from 1864 to 1876 liberal rabbi in Riga , Livonia Gouvernement , Russian Empire .

Reichmann probably died in 1876, because in 1877 the Stuber antiquarian bookshop in Würzburg offered its posthumous library.

Fonts (selection)

• De Graecorum arte politica. Dissertation Jena 1857.

Literature (selection)

• General newspaper of Judaism . An impartial organ for all Jewish interests in politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , XI. Year, No. 38, Leipzig 1847, p. 575 Communication on taking office as a regional rabbi ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• General newspaper of Judaism. 13th year, No. 14, Leipzig 1849, pp. 188f. ( Digital version with compact memory ), No. 19, p. 253ff. ( Digitized by Compact Memory ) About the differences of opinion in Strelitz.
• Andreas Brämer : Rabbi and board member. On the history of the Jewish community in Germany and Austria 1809–1871 (= Aschkenas. Journal for the history and culture of the Jews , supplement 5). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1999, ISBN 3-205-99112-5 , pp. 160f.
• Entry REICHMANN, Heymann, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, p. 738, no. 1463.
• Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 176.

Web links

• Literature about Heymann Reichmann in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jews in Mecklenburg. Rabbi.
2. ^ Probably with an interruption in 1868, see Svetlana Bogojavlenska: The Jewish Society in Courland and Riga 1795-1915. Paderborn: Schöningh 2012, zugl .: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 2008 ISBN 978-3-506-77128-5 , p. 160; after the entry of Riga in the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), Reichmann's tenure in Riga lasted from 1869 to 1873
3. ↑ Catalog No. 16 from A. Stuber's Antiquariat in Würzburg. Content: Orientalia. Hebraica. Judaica. Contains the posthumous library of Rabbi Dr. Reichmann in Riga. See Neuer Anzeiger für Bibliographie und Bibliothekwissenschaft 1877, p. 340 No. 978, 335 Lots: If not a particularly outstanding u. rare, but mostly selected u. more valuable works.