Care and Welfare

In the postwar period, headquarters of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

The Ferdinand Gamburg Lodge LXXII No. 654 U.O.B. was the Hanau lodge of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith. On January 16, 1910, lodge brothers founded the lodge in honor of the late benefactor. In 1937, the Lodge was dissolved.

It was not until 1965 that the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations. But already in the fall of 1948 an Israeli consulate was opened in Munich. However, it was not considered an institution that maintained official relations with Germany, but with the Western occupying powers (USA, Great Britain and France). The consulate was mainly there for the needs of the Jewish displaced persons who were staying in DP camps in Bavaria.

The RVJD moves into the residential and business premises at Laerstraße 9 of the Jewish businesswoman Julie Stern (linen and wool factory) as the headquarters of the Westphalia district office.

The Jewish Welfare Center was founded in 1867 as an Israelite asylum for the sick and infirm. In the 1890s it was decided to build a new building on Ottostra&szlig. The inauguration took place on 19.2.1908. At the instigation of the medical director, Dr. Auerbach, the facility met the most modern requirements. During WW1, the asylum provided up to 200 hospital beds. The asylum managed to survive the crises of the Weimar period. The necessary modernizations due to the enormous burden of the war years could only be financed gradually.