Salomon Korn

Salomon Korn (born 4 June 1943 in Lublin, Poland) is a German architect and an honorary senator of Heidelberg University.

Since 1999 he has served as chairman of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main and since 2003 as vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

[1] After the fall of the Nazi regime, he and his parents were transferred to a camp for displaced persons in Frankfurt-Zeilsheim.

[9] In 2014, he took a stand in the controversy about the Stolpersteine by Cologne artist Gunter Demnig, favoring their collocations also in Munich.

Between 1900 and 1933, synagogues in Germany began to become a part of the respective urban landscape — in spite of previous controversies, especially in large cities.