Julius Cohn

Rabbi Dr. Julius Cohn
courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute

Julius Cohn (born December 5, 1878 in Graudenz ; died March 18, 1940 in Golders Green ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Julius Cohn, son of an education official and teacher at the Israeli community school in Graudenz, studied oriental philology , history and philosophy and also medicine at the Royal Gymnasium in Gnesen at the Humboldt University in Berlin after attending school in Leeds and graduating in 1900 . As a student he was also active as an artist. In a competition run by the magazine Ost und West with the judges EM Lilien , Hermann Struck and Lesser Ury , he received the second prize (if the first prize was not awarded) in 1902 for his painting Uwo Lezion Goël (The Redeemer Comes to Zion) the title Heimatlos was printed in the November issue. In 1908 he was with his dissertation Des Samuel al-Magrebi treatise on the duties of the priests and judges in the Karaites from the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. phil. PhD . From 1907 to 1913 he studied at the University for the Science of Judaism in Berlin , graduating as a rabbi. In addition, he worked as a religion teacher and assistant preacher for the Berlin Jewish Community (1906–1915).

In 1915, Cohn became a liberal rabbi in Hoppstädten in the Principality of Birkenfeld and a land rabbi in Birkenfeld. In 1917 he joined the General German Rabbis Association (ADR) . In 1919 he moved to Karlsruhe and worked there as the second city rabbi with responsibility for religious instruction, where he was close to the Association for Liberal Judaism . When the first city rabbi Viktor Kurrein left Karlsruhe in 1923 , Cohn took over his representation. From 1925 to 1928 he was then 2nd rabbi and religion teacher in Stuttgart .

In 1928 Cohn became a district rabbi in Ulm . After the death of the district rabbi Dr. In 1930 Hermann Kroner also looked after the district rabbinate of Oberdorf am Ipf for some time . After the death of his first wife in 1938, he married Dorothea Meth (1904–1944), daughter of the department store owner Alfred Meth (1875–1960) in Schwäbisch Gmünd . In the Reichspogromnacht 9./10. Like other Jewish people from Ulm, he was badly mistreated and injured at the Weinhof in Ulm on November 11th , 1938 , so that he was treated in hospital until December 5th. In May 1939 he emigrated to England , where he died a year later due to health problems. His widow Dorothea Cohn worked in her job in the Jewish old people's home in Heilbronn-Sontheim , from where she was first deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 with her foster family members . She then disappeared in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 .

literature

• Katrin Nele (with the assistance of Jörg H. Fehrs, Valentina Wiedner): Cohn, Julius, Dr. . In: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis, Part 2: The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945. KG Saur , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 (accessed December 31, 2015).
• Jürgen Schuhladen-Krämer: Julius Cohn . Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe 2013 (accessed December 31, 2015).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Malte Rabbi Dr. Julius Cohn "Homeless"? Kalonymos 18 (2015), issue 4, p. 16.
2. ^ Inauguration of Rabbi Dr. Cohn . Jüdisch-Liberale Zeitung September 28, 1928 (accessed December 31, 2015).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jewish dwellings and business buildings in Schwäbisch Gmünd (A documentation from the secondary school in Leinzell 1995, accessed on January 1, 2016).
4. ^ ^{A b} Rudi Kübler: Pogrom Night: SA men abused Ulm Jews . Südwest Presse November 9, 2013 (accessed December 31, 2015).
5. ↑ Ulm history (s): The Reichspogromnacht in Ulm ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 31, 2015).