Meier Appel

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Rabbi Meier Appel and his wife Anna geb. Willstätter

Meier Appel , also Maier Appel (born September 13, 1851 in Jesberg , Hesse ; died February 8, 1919 in Karlsruhe ) was a German rabbi , pulpit speaker and educator of the conservative to liberal-oriented Jews in Karlsruhe. In bourgeois society at the end of the imperial era, he represented the classic ideas of humanism and the compatibility of Judaism and Germanness.

Life

Meier (also: Maier) Appel ( Hebrew מאיר אפעל) grew up as the son of the teacher Jakob Appel and Guta geb. Löwenstein in Jesberg and attended the Latin school in Fritzlar and the high school in Kassel . After graduating from high school, he began his rabbinical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and studied at the same time at the Universities of Marburg and Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1874 on the subject of Quaestiones de rebus Samaritanorum sub imperio Romanorum peractis . In January 1878 Meier Appel received the Semicha and took up his first rabbinical position in Homburg vdH .

In 1880 he married Anna, daughter of the senior councilor and rabbi Benjamin Willstätter and Auguste born. Ellstätter. She was born on August 27, 1858 in Karlsruhe. The couple had two sons, born in 1881 and 1884.

Meier Appel was committed to the equal recognition of Judaism alongside other denominations in the German state. It is documented that he was received by the liberal-minded Empress Augusta in 1883 and 1885 . From 1886 to 1894 Appel held the city rabbinate in Mannheim , in the following period he was - in the successor to Adolf Schwarz  - city and conference rabbi of the Israelite community in Karlsruhe . He headed the Association of Badischer Israeliten , which later became part of the Central Association.

Anna Appel died on December 31, 1918. In the death register of the community on January 15, 1919, the widower found the following entry: “With you, beloved wife, all my happiness went away. God be protection and protection for me! ”Shortly afterwards, on February 8th, Rabbi Appel passed away. Both were buried in the Jewish cemetery on Haid-und-Neu-Strasse in Karlsruhe.

Works (selection)

  • Quaestiones de rebus Samaritanorum sub imperio Romanorum peractis. Dieterich, Göttingen 1874. 97 p. Zugl. Phil. Diss., Univ. Wroclaw 1874.
  • Funeral speech on the occasion of the death of ... Grand Duke Friedrich in the main synagogue in Karlsruhe on Oct. 6, 1907. Malsch & Vogel, Karlsruhe 1907.
  • The humanist Reuchlin as a defender of Jewish literature. Lecture [...] given at the regular general meeting of the Central Association on February 25, 1908. In: In the German Reich. H. 6, 1908, pp. 332–340 ( online version (PDF); PDF; 7.5 MB)
  • “I will not die, but live and proclaim the works of God”. Go to the war sermon on the Day of Atonement, Sept. 30, 1914 in d. Main synagogue in Karlsruhe. Bielefeld, Karlsruhe 1914.

literature

  • Anonymous: In memory of Dr. Meier Appel, city and conference rabbi in Karlsruhe, died February 8, 1919 and his wife Anna Appel, born. Willstätter, died December 31, 1918. Malsch and Vogel, Karlsruhe 1919.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ compactmemory.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / compactmemory.de  
  2. ↑ cf. Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums , October 1, 1883 and Der Israelit , August 17, 1885
  3. ↑ landesarchiv-bw.de
personal data
SURNAME Appel, Meier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Appel, Maier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi, pulpit speaker and educator for conservative to liberal oriented Jews in Karlsruhe
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Jesberg , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1919
Place of death Karlsruhe