Jüdische Nachkriegsgeschichte als Stadtgeschichte. Das Beispiel der Partnerstadt Frankfurt am Main

On Friday, 6 November 2026, at 6.30 pm, Prof. Dr Tobias Freimüller will speak on post-war Jewish history as urban history, using Frankfurt am Main – one of Leipzig’s twin towns – as an example. The lecture will take place at the Alte Börse in Leipzig to mark the conclusion of the ‘Day of Urban History’ and is open to the public regardless of whether they are attending the conference.

Tobias Freimüller is Deputy to the Director of the Fritz Bauer Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Department of History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He studied history and German language at the Ruhr University Bochum and received his doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with a biography of the psychoanalyst and critical intellectual Alexander Mitscherlich in 2007. He completed his habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 2019 with a thesis entitled »Frankfurt and the Juden (1945–1990)«; the work was published in 2020 by Wallstein Verlag under the title »Frankfurt und die Juden. Neuanfänge und Fremdheitserfahrungen 1945–1990«.

»City History Day« is an academic conference on a variety of topics. As part of the »Year of Jewish Culture in Saxony 2026 – Tacheles,« the conference — co-organized by the City History Museum and the Dubnow Institute — will focus on the Jewish history of Leipzig. The program is characterized by its chronological breadth and thematic diversity; the participation of established experts as well as emerging scholars is also central to the event. A key focus is on the history of relationships and supraregional perspectives on Leipzig’s Jewish history, as well as on previously underrepresented periods in the city’s Jewish history, such as the history of Leipzig’s Jewish community in the postwar period and in the GDR.