Felix Carlebach

Felix Falk Carlebach (15 April 1911 in Lübeck - 23 January 2008 in Manchester) was a German-born British Rabbi in Manchester, England.

He was an honorary citizen of the city of Lübeck and had both German and British citizenship.

Life

Carlebach descended from a well known German rabbinical family. He was the son of Simson Carlebach (1875–1942), a banker, and his wife Resi née Graupe. His grandfather Salomon Carlebach (1845–1919), who married Esther Carlebach née Adler (1853–1920), was already a Rabbi in Lübeck. His uncle Joseph Carlebach was a Rabbi in Hamburg. Carlebach's younger brother Ephraim was a Rabbi in Montreal (Canada). He had another brother, Salomon, and a sister, Esther.

Carlebach was a student at Katharineum zu Lübeck. After he passed his A-levels in 1929 he studied theology and music in Köln. In 1934 he became a teacher at Höhere Israelitische Schule in Leipzig a school for Jewish students founded by his uncle Ephraim Carlebach (1879–1936) in 1912. His uncle emigrated to Palestine in spring 1936 and died there in October 1936. Felix Carlebach stayed in Leipzig until 1939.