Georg Heuberger

Georg Heuberger (1946 – 7 November 2010) was founding director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and representative of the Claims Conference.

Both his parents, Dolek and Franziska, escaped from the Bochnia ghetto in 1943 and fled to Budapest, Hungary via Slovakia, where they survived The Holocaust.

In his early years, Heuberger studied Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1988 he became the founding director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and, until his retirement in January 2006, he took over the editing of the exhibition catalogs.

Nearing the end of his life, Heuberger became a representative of the Claims Conference, and played an active role in the restitution of art and cultural goods that were stolen from the Jewish community of Budapest.