Isaak Hess Way

Isaak Hess was born in Lauchheim on May 26, 1789. He attended a rabbinical school in Fürth and then worked for several years as a tutor and bookkeeper. In 1817 he founded his own antiquarian bookshop in Lauchheim. In 1838, he moved his antiquarian bookshop to Ellwangen and expanded it with an assortment bookstore. The emancipation efforts of the Württemberg Jews were of particular concern to him. He was a member of a government commission that prepared a law on the political and civil rights of Jews in Württemberg. In 1831 the initiative of Isaak Hess led to the foundation of the " Association for an Institution for the Care of Poor Israelite Orphans and Neglected Children " with the later foundation of the Israelite Orphanage "Wilhelmspflege" in Esslingen in 1841/1842. Already at a young age he became a member of the board of the Jewish Community in Lauchheim. Isaak Hess died on October 6, 1866 in Ellwangen and found his final resting place in Aufhausen near Bopfingen in the Jewish cemetery.