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The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook Advance Access originally published online on September 11, 2009
The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2009 54(1):275-296; doi:10.1093/lbaeck/ybp006
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Leo Baeck Institute. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

"I’ve never regretted being a German Jew": Siegmund Weltlinger and the Re-establishment of the Jewish Community in Berlin

Philipp J. Nielsen

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For the first fifty years of his life Siegmund Weltlinger was very much an example of the German-Jewish upper-middle class. Born into an assimilated and patriotic Jewish family in 1886 in Hamburg, he attended the Königliches Friedrichsgymansium in Kassel, completed his one-year military service, was trained as a bank clerk, served in the First World War, and by the 1920s had joined a private banking house in Berlin as well as being active on the city's stock exchange. As was the case for his co-religionists, the Nazi accession to power in 1933 undid most of his life's achievements and challenged his German identity. By 1945, however, Weltlinger had become an exception. He was one of the relatively small number of German Jews who had survived the war hidden by non-Jewish friends. This experience had a profound effect on the assessment of his German identity. Weltlinger, right from his emergence out . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   BERLIN'S JEWISH COMMUNITY AFTER THE WAR AND WELTLINGER'S APPOINTMENT AS ITS LEADER
 

   TOWARDS A MORE PERMANENT LIFE
 

   RESTITUTION: THE JÜDISCHE GEMEINDE, THE GERMANS, WELTLINGER AND THE JRSO
 

   WELTLINGER, THE EAST, AND THE DIVISION OF THE GEMEINDE
 

   CONCLUSIONS
 

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