Dr. Moshe Koenig, a leading figure in Orthodox Jewish circles here and for several years chairman of the Amsterdam Ashkenazi Congregation Council, died yesterday at the age of 75. He was born in Austria, studied at the Orthodox rabbinical seminary in Berlin where he was ordained and later obtained a law degree in Frankfurt. He settled in Holland in the mid – 1930s. He never practiced as a rabbi but was active In Jewish communal affairs.
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