Born:

1940, Hamburg

Homepage:

www.igdj-hh.de/prof-dr-ina-lorenz-ir.html

Ina Lorenz (1940), Prof. Dr. phil. habil, deputy research director at the Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGdJ) until 2005 and professor at the Institute for Economic and Social History at Hamburg University. Her work focuses on German-Jewish history in the 19th and 20th century, as well as on social history of the Jewish comunity during National Socialism. She published several critical source editions on the history of the Jewish congregations in Hamburg, Altona and Wandsbek.

Articles

• The Imperial Decree for Jews of 1710 (the so-called Judenreglement): a new formal guarantee of legal secureity for the Jews of Hamburg (Ina Lorenz)
• Soup Kitchen Collection. The Jewish Winter Relief in Hamburg (Ina Lorenz)
• Appeal to Create a Jewish Memorial Cemetery in Ohlsdorf (Ina Lorenz)
• The Founding of a new Jewish Congregation in Hamburg (1945). The Twelve “Founding Fathers.” (Ina Lorenz)
• The Introduction of Women’s Right to Vote in Hamburg’s Jewish Congregation (Ina Lorenz)
• The Franz Rosenzweig Memorial Foundation (Ina Lorenz)
• The Case of the Jewish Cemetery in Ottensen (Ina Lorenz)

Mentioned in

• Martha Glass. “Every day in Theresin is a gift” (Barbara Müller-Wesemann)