Paul Rieger (rabbi)

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Paul Rieger (born July 4, 1870 in Dresden ; died July 10, 1939 in Stuttgart ) was a German reform rabbi .

Life

Paul Rieger attended the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden, where he passed his Abitur at Easter 1889. From 1889 to 1893 he studied at the University of Wroclaw , where he received his doctorate on August 11, 1894 (on technology and terminology of crafts in the Mishnah ). At the same time he also studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary (1889-1894). From 1894 to 1896 he worked as a lecturer at the Institute for the Science of Judaism in Berlin .

He worked as a rabbi in Potsdam from 1896 to 1902 (here he introduced a youth service and in 1899 initiated the establishment of an association for Jewish history and literature), in Hamburg from 1902 to 1915, there at the Hamburger Tempel from 1902 to 1908 (as the second Preacher), in Braunschweig (here regional rabbi) from 1916 to 1922 and in Stuttgart (city rabbi and religious teacher at secondary schools) from 1922 to 1939. From 1924 on he published the community newspaper for the Jewish communities in Württemberg.

He was “an opponent of the Zionists for a long time ” and “German national conscious”.

Paul Rieger was buried in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart .

Publications (selection)

  • with Hermann Vogelstein : History of the Jews in Rome 1420–1870. 2 volumes, Berlin 1895–1896.
  • Hillel and Jesus. Hamburg 1904.
  • A day in the life of a Babylonian wholesale merchant. 1910.
  • For the centenary of the Edict of Jews on March 11, 1812. Berlin 1912.
  • A quarter of a century in the struggle for the rights of German Jews. 1918.
  • On the home law of the German Jews. 2nd Edition. 1924.
  • The Foundation of Rome in the Talmud. 1925.
  • We are German! A debate about homeland law and homeland experience between city rabbi Dr. Paul Rieger and Dr. Müller-Claudius. in: CV newspaper . Volume 10, No. 9, from February 27, 1931, p. 96 f. ( online ).
  • The swastika is also “Jewish”? Sources in the Bible and in Jewish literature. In: CV-Zeitung, Volume 11, No. 44, from October 28, 1932, p. 444 ( online ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire 1871–1945. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 501.
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1939
Place of death Stuttgart