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About Rabbi Dr. Marcus Melchior
- The Melchior Rabbinical Family of Denmark Interview Transcript
- Complete Marcus Melchior Family Tree Danish Wikipedia
Marcus Melchior (1897 – 1969) was acting chief rabbi of Denmark in 1943 at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews. Marcus Melchior came from a prominent Jewish family in Denmark. After a few years as rabbi in Germany, 1934 he became rabbi for the Jewish Community in Copenhagen From 1943 to 1945 he was acting rabbi for the Jewish refugees from Denmark in Sweden, and following the death of Max Friediger in 1947, became chief rabbi in Denmark.
After World War II he pleaded for reconciliation with the new Germany. Though his background was orthodox, his rhetorical skills and his culturally open attitudes made him a popular lecturer also outside Jewish circles.
He fathered four sons and two daughters, two of them are:
- Arne Melchior (who became a frontbench Danish politician and government minister) and
- Binyamin (Bent) Melchior. In 1969, the latter succeeded his father as chief rabbi in Copenhagen, and is the father of Michael Melchior, who is chief rabbi in Norway and emigrated to Israel in 1986 where he became a member of the Knesset for the Labour-Meimad faction.
He was also the grandfather of Rabbi Ove "Uri" Schwarz who served as the Chief Rabbi of Finland 1982–1987.
- Ellen Otzen (8 October 2013). "The mass escape of Jews from Nazi-occupied Denmark". BBC News. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
Born May 26, 1897 in Fredericia, Denmark, Gest. December 22, 1969 on a trip to Hamburg. Son of banking specialist Arnold M. and a daughter of Fåborg rabbi LM Wallach, paternal descendant of rabbis in Copenhagen, maternal of rabbis on Funen, grew up in Copenhagen. In 1906 he secretly got engaged to the daughter Meta (born 1901) of the Copenhagen OR M. Schornstein, whom he married fifteen years later, and made the decision to become a rabbi. 1914 secretary to M. Schornstein, Oct. 1915-1921 studies at the RS and at the Univ. Berlin (Orient. Languages, Philosophy, Egyptology), 1921 doctorate with Gotthelf Bergsträsser (Erlangen / Königsberg). Jan. 1922 Rb. in Tarnowitz (Tarnowskie Góry), Upper Silesia, 1923 headmaster of the Jewish boys' school in Copenhagen, 1924/25 Rb. in Beuthen (Bytom),Upper Silesia; Member of the Mamreh Lodge and the Talmud Torah Association. 1927 in the honorary committee of the welfare lottery of the "Working Group to Combat Tuberculosis Among the Jews". 1934 return to Copenhagen, head of the religious school and second librarian; Lecturing. 1942 began studying law. Oct. 1943 escape to Sweden, Dec. 1943 Lager-Rb. for the Danish refugees in Sweden, April 1, 1944 state employment as a clergyman for the Danish Jews in Sweden. 1945 return to Denmark. 1946 application as Rb. in Malmö, December 1946 delegate of the Danish Zionists at the 22nd Zionist Congress in Basel, 1947-1969 OR of Denmark. His son Bent was his successor (1970-1996), one of his grandchildren, Michael, first became Rb. in Norway, later Deputy Foreign Minister of the State of Israel.
Source: Biographical Portal of the Rabbis, steinheim-institut.de
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Rabbi Dr. Marcus Melchior's Timeline
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May 26, 1897
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Fredericia, Fredericia Municipality, Syddanmark, Denmark
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December 22, 1969
Age 72
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Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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