Max Friediger

Max Friediger ( born April 9, 1884 in Budapest, died April 9, 1947 in Copenhagen) was a Danish chief rabbi and Holocaust survivor.

Life

Friediger visited Budapest in high school and after high school studied at the Kaiser -Wilhelm University, and at the same time at the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin. He received a doctorate in phil. and became the rabbi diploma. Then he headed from 1909 to 1911, the Talmud Torah school in Prague and was a lecturer at the local teacher training college. As a rabbi, he served from 1911 to 1913 in Pohrlitz and 1913-1919 in Odersberg. During World War II he was employed from 1916 to 1918 as a field rabbi of the Imperial Army. From 1920 to 1947 was Friediger Royal Danish chief rabbi in Copenhagen. He was with the Berliner Fanny, born Seegal, married; the couple had two children.

After the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht Friediger was born on August 29, 1943, ahead of the rescue of the Danish Jews, arrested and interned in the camp Horserød. Friediger was later deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where he arrived on October 6, 1943. There, he was a so-called celebrity from January 1944 the Jewish elders and became employees of care. Friediger mid- April 1945 was evacuated as part of the bailout of the White Buses by the Swedish Red Cross, led by Folke Bernadotte with other Danish prisoners from Theresienstadt to Sweden. Friediger died in 1947, his successor as the Danish Chief Rabbi Marcus Melchior was.