Siegfried Ucko

Siegfried Ucko (born November 7, 1905 in Gliwice , † August 10, 1976 in Israel ) was a German rabbi and Zionist.

Life

Siegfried Ucko was born as the son of the businessman Nathan Ucko and his wife Else, nee. Weißenberg, born. He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Gleiwitz and, after graduating from high school in 1924, studied philosophy, art history and Jewish theology in Vienna, Breslau and Königsberg, where he received his doctorate in 1927. In 1928/29 he acquired the title of rabbi at the University of Jerusalem, after which he became an academic religious teacher and youth rabbi in Mannheim. From 1932 to 1935 Ucko was a district rabbi in Offenburg.

As a Zionist, Siegfried Ucko became a member of the Hechaluz movement, which took care of the agricultural training of young men and women who wanted to emigrate to Palestine . In 1933 Ucko co-founded the first Baden agricultural training camp for Palestine emigrants in Diersburg. This was dissolved by the Nazi authorities in 1935. As a rabbi, he also promoted emigration to Palestine in his district. He himself emigrated to Palestine with his wife Ruth and a daughter in January 1935. There he worked as an educator before he became a lecturer at the teachers' college in Tel-Aviv in 1946 and later a full professor in the educational science faculty of Tel Aviv University .

Fonts

• The concept of God in the philosophy of Hermann Cohen . Reuther & Reichard, Berlin 1929.
• Fights Mosis (on II. B. Mos. Ch. 33 and 34). In: The morning. Born 1934, issue 8, pp. 451–455 (online)
• Spiritual historical foundations of the science of Judaism (motifs of the cultural association from 1819). In: Journal for the History of the Jews in Germany. Vol. 5, 1935, pp. 1-34 (online) .

literature

• Bernd Rottenecker: Siegfried Ucko (1905–1976) - rabbi and Zionist. In: Jürgen Stude, Bernd Rottenecker, Dieter Petri: Jewish life in the Ortenau . seitenweise-Verlag, Bühl 2018, ISBN 978-3-943874-25-9 , pp. 208-209.