Salomon Korn (born 4 June 1943 in

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, Poland) is a German

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and an Honorary Senator of

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. Since 1999 he serves as Chairman of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main and since 2003 as Vice president of the

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Life

Salomon Korn's grandfather was a rabbi in Lublin, Poland. He was born as the eldest of three brothers in the Lublin ghetto. After the fall of the Nazi regime, he and his parents were transferred to a camp for displaced persons in Frankfurt-

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. The family had planned to emigrate to the USA or to Israel, but moved emigration over and over again. Korn visited the Helmholtz School during this time. His father successfully established a real estate business. In 1964 he married Maruscha Rawicki. The couple has three children. Korn studied architecture and sociology in

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and

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. In 1976, he achieved a PhD with a study on the reform of the prison system. His brother (born 1946) became a theatre director. He became the architect of the Jewish Community Center in Frankfurt am Main that opened in 1986. On that occasion, Salomon Korn stated: "Someone who builds a house, wants to remain — and hopes for security." A week after the opening ceremony, he was elected to the board of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt. In 1999 he became the chairman. Korn serves in several foundations and cultural and scientific institutions such as the ''Ludwig Börne foundation'' and the Foundation for the Promotion of the Scientific Relations of the

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

in Frankfurt. He is member of the Board of Trustees of the ''Ignatz Bubis Award for mutual understanding'', of the foundation ''Monument to the murdered Jews of Europe'', of the Senate of the Deutsche Nationalstiftung and a Board Member of the Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste. He serves in honorary functions for the Opera in the Abbey ruins of

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, the German Film Institut and the Sigmund Freud Institute, both in Frankfurt/Main. He is a member of the advisory council of the

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in Berlin, of the Kuratoriums of the

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s and of the Federal Foundation Jüdisches Museum Berlin. He also serves in several scientific committees. In 2003 he was elected Vice President of the

. He has repeatedly declined to be a candidate for the presidency of this institution. He published works on social science and architectural history. In the 1990s, Korn participated with critical contributions to the debate about a central

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. In 2014, he took a stand in the controversy about the Stolpersteine by Cologne artist

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, favoring their collocations also in Munich.

Quotation

Accolades

* 2005 for extraordinary rhetoric performances in the category of politics * 2006 Honorary title

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of the State of

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for his merits on the subject of remembrance * 2006 Honorar Senator of the

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* 2009

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Publications

* Salomon Korn,

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: ''Europa und der Judenmord.'' 2005, . * Salomon Korn: ''Die fragile Grundlage. Auf der Suche nach der deutsch-jüdischen Normalität.'' 2003, . * Salomon Korn: ''Geteilte Erinnerung. Beiträge zur deutsch-jüdischen Gegenwart.'' 2001, . * Helga Krohn, Matthias Morgenstern, Salomon Korn: ''Ostend. Blick in ein jüdisches Viertel.'' 2000, . ;Articles *
Moschee auf der Alm: Zu schwach, um Fremdes zu ertragen?
', in: FAZ, 27 October 2008 (about the construction of synagogues and mosques in Germany) *
München soll stolpern
',

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(Hamburg), 15 November 2014 (about the

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controversy in Munich) ;Interviews * Evelyn Finger:
Diktaturenvergleich jetzt!
', in:

(Hamburg), 15 November 2007 * Stefan Reinecke and Christian Semler:
Wir brauchen keine Opferkonkurrenz
' –

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(Berlin), 6 May 2004 * Peter Voß:
„Normalität lässt sich nicht herbeireden“
' – SWR-Kulturzeit, November 2004. * Alexander Wendt:
Ein Unbehagen des Westens
' –

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, 18 September 2006 * Moritz Reininghaus:
Ein Anfang scheint gemacht
' –

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, November 2008

References

External links

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Articles for ''Die Zeit''
*Medienschelte 2006

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