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Georg Salzberger was born in Culm, West-Prussia (Chełmno, Poland) in 1882 and grew up in Erfurt, Germany, where his father Moritz Salzberger was the rabbi. He studied at universities in Berlin and Heidelberg, and he was ordained rabbi at Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin in 1909. From 1910 to 1937, Salzberger was rabbi at the liberal Westend-Synagogue in Frankfurt am Main; he also lectured at the Philanthropin and other Jewish institutions. After incarceration at Dachau, Salzberger emigrated to London, England, where he was co-founder of the German-speaking “New Liberal Jewish Congregation”. Rabbi Dr. Georg Salzberger died in London in 1975.
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Georg Salzberger, Leo Baeck Institute, F 826.