Rabbi Yeshayah Wohlgemuth

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Rabbi Yeshayah Wohlgemuth

Hebrew: הרב ישעיה וואהלגעמוטה
Also Known As: "Schei", "Scheu", "Jesaia", "Yishai", "Yeshaya", "Jischai", "Schlay", "Abraham"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Neustadt-Schirwindt, now, Kutuzovo, Krasnoznamensky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (Russian Federation)
Death: December 31, 1898 (78)
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Place of Burial: Hamburg, Germany
Immediate Family:

Husband of Ida Wohlgemuth
Father of Elias Wohlgemuth; Sarah Sternstein; Levy (Aryeh) Wohlgemuth; Esther Sunderland; Minna Böhmer and 3 others

Managed by: Carl Lavin
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About Rabbi Yeshayah Wohlgemuth

Wikipedia article (in German)

From "Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Memel" by Josef Rosin, 2005 (Link)
"[...] were the first Jewish family to receive citizenship in Memel, they brought in the first resident slaughterer by the name of Yosel Vald, all of them coming from the Lithuanian town of Tavrig (Taurage). Several years later, Mr. Vald transferred his position to his son–in–law Yeshayah Wohlgemuth, who after some time received rabbinical ordination. Later the sons of Yosel Vald became great flour and timber merchants."
"The Rabbis of the Lithuanian-Polish Jewish community were: Yeshaiah Wohlgemuth, who died in Hamburg in 1899..."

הרב ישעיה וואהלגעמוטה (ווהלגמוט) זצ"ל נולד כ"ט סיון ה'תק"פ ונפטר ביום שבת ח"י טבת ה'תרנ"ט ונקבר ביום א' י"ט טבת בבית הקברות לאנגענפעלדע בהמבורג שבגרמניה.

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Rabbi Yeshayah Wohlgemuth's Timeline

1820
June 10, 1820
Neustadt-Schirwindt, now, Kutuzovo, Krasnoznamensky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (Russian Federation)
1842
August 5, 1842
Memel, now, Klaipėda, Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybė, Klaipėda County, Lithuania
1848
January 2, 1848
Memel, now, Klaipėda, Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybė, Klaipėda County, Lithuania
1854
August 8, 1854
Memel (Klaipėda), Prussia (Lithuania)
1858
1858
Deutschland (Germany)
1898
December 31, 1898
Age 78
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg 02, 1898 Band 5, Best. 332-5 Standesämter, Personenstandsregister, Sterberegister, 1876-1950, Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Hamburg, Deutschland. (via Ancestry.com)
1899
January 1, 1899
Age 78
Jüdischer Friedhof Langenfelde, Hamburg, Germany
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