Siegfried Galliner

Siegfried Julius Galliner (born January 25, 1875 in Zinten ; died March 3, 1960 in London ) was a rabbi in Gelsenkirchen between 1914 and 1938 .

Life

Galliner was born the son of the cantor of the community, Jonas Galliner. His older brother Julius Galliner later became the rabbi of the synagogue on Fasanenstrasse in Berlin, his younger brother Arthur Galliner went to the Philanthropin in Frankfurt am Main and became an art teacher and historian.

Siegfried Galliner first attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Posen and studied philosophy, languages ​​and literary history at the Rabbinical Seminar in Berlin and the University of Berlin . For his dissertation " Saadia Al-fajjumi 's Arabic translation of the Psalms and commentary (Psalm 73-89)" He was in 1902 at the University of Erlangen doctorate . He received the semichah to work as a rabbi and taught in Berlin at the school of the Adass Yisroel community . In 1904 he became a rabbi at the Israelite religious school in Beuthen , today's Bytom, in Silesia.

In May 1914 he became the first rabbi of the liberal synagogue community in Gelsenkirchen . Here he founded, among other things, the Jewish student union - Chewras talmidim , in order to strengthen the sense of belonging among the students. In 1924 he wrote an essay for the congregation's commemorative publication entitled “The importance of Jewish theology and its contemporary task”.

After the seizure of power in 1933 by the Nazis emigrated Siegfried Galliner on 28 April 1938 after London. There he went blind and died in 1960. He was buried in the cemetery of the United Synagogue in Bushey (Hertfordshire) .

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Siegfried Galliner. In: Günter Birkmann, Hartmut Stratmann, Thomas Kohlpoth: Consider who you are standing in front of. 300 synagogues and their history in Westphalia and Lippe. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-661-8 .
2. ↑ See also: Jewish life in Gelsenkirchen

literature

• Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire, 1871–1945. edited by Katrin Nele Jansen. Volume 1, de Gruyter, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 212f.
• Esriel Hildesheimer , Mordechai Eliav: The Berlin Rabbinical Seminar 1873-1938. Its founding history - its students . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-46-0 , p. 121.

Web links

• Katrin Nele Jansen (arrangement): Galliner, Siegfried, Dr. In: Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire 1871–1945. Volume 1, de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44107-3 , p. 212.