Georg Heuberger
Georg Heuberger (1946 – 7 November 2010) was a historian and the founding director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. He also served as a representative of the Claims Conference.
He was born in Budapest, Hungary. His parents, Dolek and Franziska, escaped from the Bochnia ghetto in 1943 and fled to Budapest via Slovakia, where they survived the Holocaust. After the war, the family moved to Frankfurt via Prague in 1948.
Heuberger studied Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1982 to 1985 he was the rector’s assistant in the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 1988 he became the founding director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and, until his retirement in January 2006, he edited the exhibition catalogs. As museum director, he also led the Commission for Research into the History of Frankfurt’s Jews.
Later, as a representative of the Claims Conference, he helped in the restitution of art and cultural goods stolen from the Jewish community of Budapest. In 2006 he received the Federal Cross of Merit.
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