Leopold Hirsch Guggenheim
Leopold Hirsch Guggenheim (born February 25, 1818 in Gailingen am Hochrhein ; † November 27, 1884 ibid) was a Jewish merchant and mayor of Gailingen from 1870 to 1884.
Life
His parents were the married couple Hirsch Guggenheim and Sarah geb. Guggenheim. Almost at the same time as Bernhard Roos from Ingenheim, Guggenheim was elected mayor of Gailingen in 1870 as successor to Mathias Auer and remained in office until his death. Guggenheim thus became the first Jewish mayor of the largest rural Jewish community in Germany.
Like the Freiburg bishop Lothar von Kübel, Guggenheim stood for interdenominational contact between the two religions and is particularly evidenced by the presence of Guggenheim at the confirmations made by Lothar von Kübel in 1878 in the parish church of Gailingen.
literature
- Franz Götz (Ed.): Gailingen. History of a community in the Upper Rhine , Hegau-Geschichtsverein, Gailingen 2004, ISBN 3-921413-93-1
- Detlev Girres: Leopold Hirsch Guggenheim from Gailingen - first Jewish mayor in Baden . In: Hegau yearbook 64/2007 (subject volume: Jewish culture in Hegau and on the lake )
Web links
- Entry of Bishop Lothar von Kübel and Guggenheim into the parish church of Gailingen
- 200 years of Baden . (PDF; 2.5 MB) August 23, 2006, p. 10
Individual evidence
- ↑ The election of a Jewish mayor in 1870 was a sensation: Leopold Hirsch Guggenheim held office up to and including 1884, 200 years of Baden , p. 10, 23 August 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guggenheim, Leopold Hirsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Gailingen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gailingen on the Upper Rhine |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1884 |
| Place of death | Gailingen on the Upper Rhine |