Max Cars
Max Cars (* July 16, 1894 , † December 18, 1961 ) was the first chairman of the Jewish State Community of Thuringia after the liberation from National Socialism
Life
Cars settled in Erfurt in 1918 and was an active member of the local Jewish community. After 1933 he was persecuted by the Nazi authorities. When Nazi rule was over, he returned to Erfurt and took part in the rebuilding of a community made up of returnees from Erfurt and newcomers who had moved there due to the war.
In 1951 he laid the foundation stone for the first synagogue to be newly built in the GDR , which was built on the same site as the synagogue that was burned down by the Nazis in November 1938 .
Cars was married to Else nee Truckenbrodt.
Honor
In November 2014 the square in front of the synagogue was named "Max-Cars-Platz".
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://zentralarchiv-juden.de/bestaende/institutionen/thueringen-akten/klassifikation/#c8049
- ↑ https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/detail/-/specific/Synagoge-feiert-60-jaehriges-Jubilaeum-in-der-Thomas-Kirche-182780435
- ↑ https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/detail/-/specific/Erfurt-benennt-Platz-nach-ehemaligem-juedischen-Landesvorsitzenden-1526831007
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| SURNAME | Cars, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cars, Mordechai, son of Eljakum Hakohen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chairman of a Jewish state community |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1894 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1961 |