Law firm - Dr. Moses Hommel

Dr. Moses Hommel, born in Schweinfurt in 1869, had already been a member of the Jewish community since 1889, was a member of the Jewish Community Council in 1901 and chairman of the Jewish Community of Schweinfurt from 1914 to 1934. He was the co-founder and deputy president of the Association of Bavarian Jewish Communities in Munich and in the last years before his emigration he was involved in the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. Dr. Moses Hommel had been working as a lawyer since 1918 with the rank of a judicial councilor. His office was located in Luitpoldstraße. The increasing hostility from 1933 onwards caused Dr. Moses Hommel and his wife Hannchen to emigrate to Palestine in 1934. Dr. Moses Hommel died in Haifa in 1958.