Marcus Melchior
Marcus Lazarus Melchior (born May 26, 1897 in Fredericia ; died December 22, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a Danish rabbi .
Career
Marcus Melchior came from a well-known Danish Jewish family. His father Arnold Melchior (1857-1922) was an editor, his mother Bertha Thora daughter of Levin Moses Wallach , the rabbi of Faaborg . After receiving his doctorate from the University of Königsberg in 1921 and taking his rabbinical exam in Berlin, he was a rabbi in Tarnowitz and Beuthen .
In 1934 he became rabbi for the Jewish community in Copenhagen . From 1943 to 1945 he was the rabbi for the Jewish refugees from Denmark in Sweden . After Max Friediger's death in 1947, he became Chief Rabbi of Denmark. He advocated a reconciliation with Germany.
He had four sons and two daughters, including the politician Arne Melchior and Binyamin Melchior , who succeeded his father in the office of Rabbi of Copenhagen in 1969.
Honors
- 1958: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Melchior, Marcus Lazarus. In Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss : Politics, Economy, Public Life. Walter de Gruyter 1980, ISBN 3-11-097028-7 , p. 488.
- Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 190
- Melchior, Marcus Lazarus , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 262
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Melchior, Marcus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Melchior, Marcus Lazarus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fredericia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd December 1969 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |