Senior rabbi of Hannover and the Landrabbiner for the German state of Lower Saxony.

Studied at the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau].
1887 to 1894: studied philosophy and oriental languages at Breslau] university.
1889: teacher in a Jewisher school in Breslau.
1893: appointed as rabbi in Czarnikau.
1898: appointed as rabbi in Ostrowo.
1907: appointed as second rabbi in Hanover.
1924: appointed as regional rabbi for Hanover.
Buried in Hannover's Jewish cemetery "An der Strangriede".

His children Eduard and Lisa emigrated to Palestine and Juilius to California in the 1930s.