Leopold Neuhaus
Leopold Neuhaus , (born January 18, 1879 in Rotenburg an der Fulda ; † May 10, 1954 in Detroit , Michigan ) was the last rabbi of the third Jewish community to be destroyed in Frankfurt am Main . He founded the fourth Jewish community in Frankfurt .
Life
Neuhaus graduated from high school in Kassel , studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, attended the orthodox rabbinical seminary founded by Esriel Hildesheimer and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1908 he officiated as rabbi in Lauenburg in Pomerania , in 1909 he came to Ostrowo (pl. Ostrów) in the province of Posen . When this province was ceded to Poland in 1919, he fled to Leipzig , where he became vice principal of the Jewish school.
From 1926 to 1934 he was a rabbi in Mülheim an der Ruhr and then moved to Frankfurt, where he became a teacher at the Philanthropin .
On August 18, 1942, Neuhaus and his wife Cilly, the daughter of the Lübeck rabbi Salomon Carlebach , were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , along with 1,020 Frankfurt Jews, the rest of the Jewish community in Frankfurt. In Theresienstadt he officiated as a rabbi in the “Magdeburg barracks”, headed the old-age welfare department and was a member of the council of elders of the Jewish “self-government”.
After the liberation in May 1945, the city of Frankfurt brought him back. Here, with the support of the Americans, he built a new Jewish community.
In mid-June 1946 he emigrated to Detroit , Michigan. He was rabbi of the Gemiluth Chasodim community there until his death at the age of seventy-five .
literature
- Paul Arnsberg : Chronicle of the rabbis in Frankfurt am Main. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-7829-0531-8
- Alon Tauber: Neuhaus, Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 126 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Peter Bloch : My teachers . Frankfurt 2008. (Contains a portrait and photo of Leopold Neuhaus)
- Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 203
Web link
- Neuhaus, Dr. Leopold. In: Theresienstadt Lexicon.
- Neuhaus, Leopold. Hessian biography. (As of March 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Neuhaus, Leopold in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neuhaus, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotenburg on the Fulda |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1954 |
| Place of death | Detroit , Michigan |