Biographical/Historical Information
Rabbi Adolf Altmann was born in Hunsdorf (Huncovce), Slovakia in 1879. He studied at the rabbinical school in Pressburg and earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University in Bern. From 1907 to 1915 he served as rabbi at the congregation in Salzburg, and his work on the history of Jews in Salzburg – published in 1913 – is still the leading work on that subject. He also served in Merano and as a chaplain in the Austrian-Hungarian Army during WW I., before being called as last chief rabbi to Trier, Germany in 1920. He went to the Netherlands in 1938, was sent to Westerbork and deported to Theresienstadt, and was killed in Auschwitz.
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Rabbi Adolf Altmann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 9748.