Leo Baeck House
The Leo-Baeck-Haus is a four-storey listed building in the Tucholskystraße 9 in the Berlin district of Mitte . It is named after Rabbi Leo Baeck and was built in 1906/07 by the architect Johann Hoeniger with financial support from Nathan Bernstein .
History and use
In October 1907, the Institute for the Science of Judaism moved into the building at Artilleriestraße 14. The building was owned by the Jewish Community of Berlin . During the time of National Socialism , the university had to be closed and the owners were probably expropriated. After 1945 the building served the Charité and in the GDR as a residential building. In the 1990s, the Jewish Claims Conference (JCC) received the house back as a representative of previous Jewish owners. The JCC transferred it to the Central Council of Jews in Germany (ZdJ). After a renovation with total renovation, the ZdJ opened its headquarters here in Tucholskystraße on April 1, 1999 and named the building after Rabbi Baeck, who taught here at the university between 1912 and 1943. Other users of the Leo-Baeck-Haus are the weekly Jüdische Allgemeine as well as the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and the World Jewish Congress (WJC).
Web links
- Tucholskystraße 9 at the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List , accessed on March 7, 2016
- ↑ Artilleriestrasse 14 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1909, part 3, p. 33 (scan difficult to read; left column below).