Dr. Akiba Eisenberg (20 September 1908 – 8 April 1983) was a former Chief Rabbi of Vienna.
[1][2][3] During World War II, he survived by hiding with his brother in the outlying area with non-Jewish farmers.
[4][5] He would establish a Beth Din with the help of the Jewish Agency and advocate as a Zionist while serving this role.
[6][7] He would also be the target of an antisemitic terrorist attack, when a pipe bomb was detonated outside of his home on 4 February 1982.
[8][9] Eisenberg, working from Seitenstettengasse, the only synagogue in Vienna not destroyed by the Nazis, began Jewish education within the city.