Care and Welfare

The building at Theobald-Christ-Straße 21 (formerly Theobaldstraße) was home to the Israelite Women's Association girls' orphanage founded in 1852. The institution was run by women's rights activist Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936) for ten years from 1895. Around 1900, there were around 25 to 30 young women living there who were either half or full orphans; in some cases, their parents were unable to look after their children.

The buildings in Hölderlinstraße, which included house number 10, were erected in 1903; the architect Carl Runkwitz was responsible for the plans and the construction company commissioned was Cohn & Kreh. From around 1906/07, the building housed an auxiliary school. From the 1930s at the latest, the address was linked to the history of the neighboring Samson-Raphael-Hirsch-Realschule. Due to increasing persecution in the Frankfurt area and far beyond, many families now sought shelter there for their children.

In 1873, the banker Isaac Königswarter and his wife Elisabeth donated 215,000 guilders for the construction of a modern hospital in memory of their father and father-in-law Marcus Königswarter and their older brother and brother-in-law Zacharias Königswarter; the Israelite community acquired four plots of land for this purpose. On June 27, 1875, the Königswarter Hospital of the Jewish community with more than 50 beds and a synagogue was officially opened; the architect Johann Christian Gramm was responsible for the building plans.

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.