Born:

July 20, 1880, Wałbrzych

Died:

June 10, 1977, Hamburg

Founder and chairman of the Jewish community in Hamburg and municipal politician

Mentioned in

• A Difficult Return: A letter from a Jewish remigrant to the head of the Hamburg Congregation (Anna Koch)
• Arts and Culture (Anthony Kauders)
• Between Remembrance and a New Beginning – the Groundbreaking of the Synagogue at Hohe Weide on November 9, 1958 (Anna Menny)
• Community Center, Rothenbaumchaussee 38
• Hannah Arendt, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Field Reports, 1948–1951, Field Report No. 18, February 15 – March 10, 1950
• Interview with Kurt van der Walde, conducted by Alfons Kenkmann, on May 9 and 30, 1994, FZH / WdE 251.
• Jewish cultural assets in the postwar period. Hannah Arendt’s report on the situation in Hamburg (Elisabeth Gallas)
• Minutes of a Meeting to Reconstitute the Jewish Congregation in Hamburg, July 1945
• Rothenbaumchaussee 38: The Treatment of Jewish Property in the Postwar Period (Hendrik Althoff)
• Speech Given by Mayor Max Brauer on the Occasion of the Groundbreaking for the Synagogue at Hohe Weide, November 9, 1958
• The Founding of a new Jewish Congregation in Hamburg (1945). The Twelve “Founding Fathers.” (Ina Lorenz)