Marx Michael Kohn

Marx Michael Kohn (born in 1826 in Kleinerdlingen , Kingdom of Bavaria ; died on February 26, 1888 there ) was a German rabbi in Kleinerdlingen. He came from the rabbi family Kohn-Rappoport, who lived in southern Germany.

Life

He was born the son of Isaac Kohn. He received Talmudic lessons from Abraham Wechsler in Schwabach and from Meyer Feuchtwang in Öttingen . He was ordained by Meyer Feuchtwang and David Weiskopf in Wallerstein , whose daughter Judith he married .

From around 1855 Kohn had been an unofficial rabbi in Kleinerdlingen. On March 9, 1882 he was elected to succeed David Weiskopf. On September 16, 1882 he received from Munich the exemption from the legally required academic studies and was thus officially recognized as a district rabbi in Kleinerdlingen. From 1882 to 1888 he was the last district rabbi of Wallerstein . After his death the office was not filled again.

His widow died in Ansbach in 1917 .

His son Pinchas Kohn was the last rabbi in Ansbach and director of World Agudath Israel .

literature

• Entry KOHN, Marx Michael. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, No. 949, p. 540.

Web links

• Rolf Hofmann: The Wallerstein rabbinate. Important rabbinical figures of the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Alemannia Judaica .
• Rolf Hofmann: On the rise and fall of the land rabbinate - mighty tombs on Wallerstein's Jewish cemetery are reminiscent of religious leaders who were once highly respected. In: Donau-Zeitung of April 30, 1997, online at Alemannia Judaica .