Oldest Rabbi of Germany, Lion Wolff, Retires at 82

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

After Fifty-seven years in office, of which twenty-five were spent in the service of the congregation at Tempelburg in Pomerania, Rabbi Lion Wolff retired this week at the age of eighty-two. Rabbi Wolff, who was the preacher of the Tempelburg congregation, was the oldest teacher and preacher of any faith in the whole of the German Republic. Even the anti-Semitic German National paper in Tempelburg publishes a long appreciation of Rabbi Wolff on the occasion of his retirement. The Prussian Federation of Jewish Communities has granted him a pension. Rabbi Wolff has been active also in the literary field and during the Konitz ritual murder affair, he took a leading part in the campaign which resulted in disclosing the true facts.