Founder
Rabbi Prof. Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was one of the most important German-Jewish thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century, whose life exemplified moral and intellectual leadership amid persecution. The Leo Baeck Institute, founded in 1955 to preserve the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry from the seventeenth century to the present, was named in his honour as the last public representative of the Jewish community in Nazi Germany.