Work in Progress

Birth (1724) and annihilation (1942) of a Jewish community

Migration flow - reconstruction attempt

1724-1730

The first 4 families...

• Leopold Jakob (from Buchau)
• Joseph Schlesinger (from Buchau)
• Leopold Weil (from Buchau)
• David Obernauer (from Grundsheim)

1730-1754

• Community of 27 families, coming from...
  • Fellheim
  • Fischach
  • Illeraichheim
  • Ederheim in Ries...
• Some new families (23?)...
  • Adler : Simon Jakob Adler (came in 1750 rom Ederheim in Ries) - ancestor of artist Friedrich Adler (1878-1942)
  • Gutermann : Löw Gutermann (becore 1744)
  • Heilbronner : Emanuel Heilbronner (before 1744)
  • Mayer : Isak Mayer (came between 1740-1744 from Fischach)
  • Thannhauser : Moses Thannhauser, came to Laupheim before son's birth in 1751 (before 1744)
  • Ullmann : Maier Ullmann (before 1744)
  • ...

1754-1807

• 41 families, about 275 people at turn of century, living in 17 houses. Among the new families...
  • Einstein : Leopold Jehuda Einstein, came before 1761
  • Essinger : David Jacob Essinger, petitioned in 1772, came perhaps from Buchau
  • Gunz : Aaron Gunz, came before 1781
  • Rieser : Emanuel Hirsch Rieser, came from Pflaumloch before 1757
  • Steiner : Victor ben Simon Steiner, came to Laupheim between 1751-1760.
  • Levigard: Abraham Levigard, came from Ichenhausen before 1782
• Among the deceased/buried in this period...
  • Samuel bar Naftali ha Cohen (Hirsch Samuel Kahn) - deceased in 1764
  • Baruch Joseph Laemmle - came from Fischach, died in Laupheim between 1760-1788
  • ...

1807-1820

• 59 families
  • Heilbronner : Bernhard Jissachar Heilbronner, came from Harburg, married in Laupheim
  • ...

Act of 1828, i.a. obligation of surnames, record keeping...

• Very few families had surnames. Prominent examples...
  • Einstein
  • Obernauer
  • Weil
  • ...
• Some new surnames emerged. Examples...
  • Surnames derived through germanisation...
    • Levi, Löw, Löffler, Levinger, Lövinger
    • Heumann...
  • Surnames derived from origin...
    • Nördlinger
    • Öttinger
    • Hofheimer
    • Thannhauser

From 1820...

• Bergmann : Anton Bergmann (1854-1912), came from Rowny between 1854-1878, married Helene Adler

1868, full equality of all citizens

• Samuel Laemmle, first jew elected to town council

Jewish emigration flows

• 1850s : to cities such as Ulm, Stuttgart, München, Frankfurt
• 1835-1870 : 176 jews emigrate to the US
  • Several sons of Simon Isak Adler and Sophie Noerdlinger
  • Julius Adler (1855)
  • Simon Adler (1852)
  • Maier Baruch Friedberger (1853)
  • Maier Guggenheimer and his wife (1854)
  • Sara Guggenheimer (1852)
  • Hirsch Hofheimer (1852)
  • Elias Laupheimer (1855)
  • Several Loevinger
  • Isak Levinger (1854)
  • Leopold Löwenstein (1854)
  • Abraham Rödelheimer (1853)
  • Abraham Rosenthal (1848) and his 9 children aged 7-23 (1849)
  • Salomon Uhlman (1855)
  • Aron Wasserman (1854)
  • ...

After 1933...

• ...

Jewish population figures

Year Jewish population Percentage

• 1730 : ca. 25 - 1.3%
• 1754 : ca. 75 - 3.7%
• 1784 : ca. 125 - 5.6%
• 1808 : 278 - 8.6%
• 1824 : 464 - 17.3%
• 1831 : 548 - 18.2%
• 1846 : 759 - 21.7%
• 1856 : 796 - 22,6%
• 1869 : 843 - 13.4%
• 1886 : 570 - 8.3%
• 1900 : 443 - 6.1%
• 1910 : 348 - 4.3%
• 1933 : 249 - 2.7%
• 1943 : 0 - 0,0%

Nearby jewisch communities

Source: John H. Bergmann

• Binswangen, since 1450
• Huerben-Krumbach, since 1504
• Ichenhausen, since 1543
• Buchau, since 1573
• Buttenwiesen, since 1599

Sources

• John H. Bergmann Collection, at the Leo Baeck Institute
• Steinheim Institut...
• Wikipedia...
• Jewish emigration from Württemberg to the US, between 1848-1855