Correspondence with Loeffler, Ludwig

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/909
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110643
Dates
5 Mar 1959 - 29 May 1959
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Ludwig Loeffler (1906-1989) was a Jewish-German lawyer, Holocaust survivor and state official. Being dismissed from public service in 1933 he worked for the Jewish community in Hamburg. In 1943 he was deported to Theresienstadt, and later to Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen. After the Second World War he was appointed head of the restitution office in Hamburg. As member of the executive committee he also played a key role in re-establishing the city’s Jewish community.

See Lorenz, I., ‘Loeffler, Ludwig’, in: Das Jüdische Hamburg: ein historisches Nachschlagewerk, ed. by Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, Wallstein, 2006, pp. 178-79.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding a former director of the rabbi seminar Berlin as well as the Library’s options of receiving financial support by the Jüdische Gemeindefonds Nordwestdeutschland, an organisation tasked with the administration of Jewish assets in the North West of West Germany.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Loeffler, Ludwig

Subjects

  • Rabbinate
  • Jewish assets

Places

  • West Germany [1949-1990]
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