The Executive Board and Council manage the community’s affairs

The Council and Executive Board determine the tasks and direction of the community. The Board represents it publicly, in numerous private and municipal institutions and foundations, for instance.

Benjamin Graumann was born in Frankfurt in 1981 and is a lawyer. He is Head of Department for the Amichai Youth Centre, the Jeschurun Religious School, Young Families and the Family Centre, Youths and Young Adults, and Digitalisation. He is also an arbitrator with the Supreme Arbitration and Administrative Court of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and delegate to the Assembly of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. He represents the community for the Foundation of the Jewish Community and is a Board Member of Makkabi Frankfurt. Furthermore, he represents the community for the Jehoshua und Hanna Bubis-Foundation, for the Moses Jachiel Kirchheim’sche Foundation, Georgine Sara von Rothschild’sche Foundation and the Eduard and Adelheid-Kann Foundation. He is married with two children.

Marc Grünbaum was born in 1970 and is a lawyer. He is Head of Department for Culture, the Jewish Adult Education Centre, Early Childhood Education (including the crèche, kindergarten, child daycare centre), and the Jewish Community in Bad Homburg. His other roles include: President of the Supreme Arbitration and Administrative Court with the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and delegate to the Assembly of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. He also represents the community for the Foundation of the Jewish Community. He is on the Executive Boards of the Hannelore Krempa, Ludwig and Emma Doctor, Georgina Sara von Rothschild, Moses, J. Kirchheim, and Eduard and Adelheid Kann Foundations.

Prof. Dr. Salomon Korn is an architect whose works include the Ignatz Bubis Community Centre. He has been Chief Executive of the Jewish Community in Frankfurt since 1999, and is Head of Department for Culture and Education (rabbinate, synagogues, cemetery and choirs), and Press. A father of three and grandfather of nine, he was born in 1943 in Lublin, Poland. He is a member of the Council of Heidelberg University, the ZDF Television Council, and the Senate of the German National Foundation. He represents the Jewish Community on the Executive Boards of the Jehoshua and Hanna Bubis, Georgina Sara von Rothschild, Moses J. Kirchheim, Eduard and Adelheid Kann, and Georg and Franziska Speyer Higher Education Foundations. He also represents the community for the Foundation of the Jewish Community and the Moses Jachiel Kirchheim Foundation. In addition, he is on the Executive Board of the Korn and Gerstenmann Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Leo Latasch is Head of Department for Social Affairs, the Seniors’ Club, Security, Administration, Personnel and the Centre for the Elderly. A consultant anaesthetist, he started out as a medical advisor for emergency services in the City of Frankfurt Health Department. From 2006 to 2018 he was Medical Manager with the City of Frankfurt’s Emergency Services (ÄLRD). He is a member on the Board of Directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and a board member of the Central Board of Jewish Welfare in Germany (ZWST). He represents the community in the Römerberg Alliance and the Advisory Board of the Integration Council for the State of Hesse, and is Executive Board member of the German Hospitals Association. From 2012-2020 he was a member of the German Ethics Council. He is now on the Executive Boards of the Child and Youth Aliyah, and of the Ludwig and Emma Doctor, Georgina Sara von Rothschild, Moses J. Kirchheim, Pestalozzi, and Eduard and Adelheid Kann Foundations. He also represents the community for the Foundation of the Jewish Community. Leo Latasch was born in Offenbach in 1952.

Harry Schnabel is Head of Department for Schools, Finance, Taxes and Real Estate, and responsible for the Emuna Scheli After-School Club of the I.E. Lichtigfeld School. He is also a member of the Executive Board and delegate to the Board of Directors of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany. He is on the Executive Boards of the Georg and Franziska Speyer Foundation for Higher Education, the non-profit Polytechnic Association, the Foundation of the Jewish Community, and the Friends and Patrons of the Jewish Museum, and a member of the Georgina Sara von Rothschild, Moses J. Kirchheim, Eduard and Adelheid Kann Foundations. Harry Schnabel was born in Frankfurt in 1956, graduated in business studies, is a father of two and a grandfather.

Miriam Adlhoch is Deputy Chief Executive of the Community Council. In 2006 she was appointed a judge with the District Court. She is Chief Executive of the Legal Commission and the Community 2030 Commission (Future Vision). She is also delegate to the Assembly of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the members’ meeting of the Central Board of Jewish Welfare in Germany, and a voting member of the City of Frankfurt Schools Commission.

Michael Bach grew up in the Jewish Community in Frankfurt and completed his Bachelor’s degree in international management at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel in 2016. He continues to study there and also at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, pursuing a Master’s degree in real estate management and business law. The youngest member of the Community Council, he originally hails from Georgia. He represents the Jewish Community in the Community of Mountain Jews, the Arbitration Court of the Jewish Community in Frankfurt, and the Frankfurt B’nai B’rith Schönstadt Lodge. In addition, he is a deputy advisor on the City of Frankfurt’s Youth Support Committee and a member of the Executive Board of the ZOD Snif Frankfurt/Rhein-Main.

Dr. Orna von Fürstenberg's links with the Jewish Community in Frankfurt reach back as far as her grandparents, who were already members. She is married with one son and works as a lawyer. She is a member of the Arbitration Court of the Jewish Community and represents the community as a deputy member of the City of Frankfurt’s Schools and Women’s Commissions. Dr. von Fürstenberg is a deputy delegate to the Assembly of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

Dr. Rachel Heuberger is Chief Executive of the Community Council and Chief Executive of the Schools Commission. Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, she has two children and is director of the Judaica Collection of Frankfurt University Library. She holds a PhD in history and is a deputy delegate to the Assembly of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and delegate to the members’ meeting of the Central Board of Jewish Welfare in Germany. She is also on the advisory council of the Adult Education Centre in Frankfurt, which was founded under her leadership. She represents the community for the Freiherrlich Wilhelm Carl von Rotschild Foundation.

Adrian Josepovici was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1964. A ‘child of our community’, he has experienced every aspect of socialisation in the Jewish Community. He has been a member of the Community Council since 2019 and is Chief Executive of the Finance Commission. He also represents the Jewish Community in the Sponsors’ Association of Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences’. He qualified in real-estate economics and now runs his own real-estate agency. He is married with two daughters.

Miroslaw Meir Lisserman hails from Ukraine. Born in 1981, he is married with three children. He is well known in the community as a co-founder and treasurer of the Jewish Experience.

Cornelia Maimon-Levi is an architect and was born in Bucharest in 1953. She is married with three children. She is Chief Executive of the Commission for Social Affairs and deputy advisor for the Youth Support Committee of the City of Frankfurt. She is also a delegate to the Assembly of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the members’ meeting of the Central Board of Jewish Welfare in Germany. She represents the community in the Board of the Budge-Stiftung, in the Anne Frank Education Centre and for the Eduard and Adelheid Kann, Moses Jachiel Kirchheim and Georgine Sara von Rothschild Foundations.

Alon Meyer is the Chief Executive of Makkabi Frankfurt and President of Makkabi Germany. Since 2004 he has held various roles on the Community Council including Secretary and Chief Executive of the Real Estate Commission. He is currently a deputy delegate to the Board of Directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the members’ meeting of the Central Board of Jewish Welfare in Germany. Born in Frankfurt, he is married and has three children.

Boris Milgram was born in Odessa in 1973 and holds a Master’s degree in business management. He came to Germany in 1993 and is Chief Executive of the Youth and Education Commission and Secretary of the Commission for the Integration of Migrants. He is deputy delegate to the Assembly of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, delegate to the members’ meeting of the Central Board of Jewish Welfare in Germany, and represents the community in the non-profit Fritz Bauer Institute Sponsors’ Association. He is married and has three children.

Alexis Petri was born in Paris in 1974. He studied law in Frankfurt and is now runs his own real-estate agency. He is Chief Executive of the Real Estate, Culture and Press Commissions, and volunteers with the Holocaust Survivors’ group in Frankfurt. He is also on the Executive Board of the non-profit Makkabi Frankfurt. He is married and has four children.

Anastasia Quensel was born in St Petersburg in 1984. She is Chief Executive of the Religious Affairs Commission and Chief Executive of the Youth and Education Commission as well as the new Digitalisation Commission. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Frankfurt Association for Families as well as deputy member of the Representatives of the Schools Commission of the City of Frankfurt. She is a project coordinator with the Central Board of Jewish Welfare in Germany and works freelance for the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. In addition, she is Chief Executive of the Sponsors’ Association of the non-profit Lichtigfeld School as well as co-founder and Vice President of the non-profit Jewish Experience. She is married with two children.

Boris Schulman was born in 1977 in Czernowitz, Ukraine, but left for Berlin one year later. After his ‘Abitur’ (university entrance exam), he trained in business management. He moved to Frankfurt in 2002, where he established a retail chain and, later, a hotel business. He now works in real-estate management and real-estate project management. Since 2019 he has been an active member of the Executive Board of Makkabi Frankfurt. He is married and has four children.