Walter Homolka
Walter Homolka is a German rabbi.
A convert to Judaism, Homolka studied at LMU Munich, the King's College London, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Leipzig University, and has a PhD from King's College London. Homolka amended his PhD-thesis in 2026 at the request of King's College after the university confirmed the academic integrity of the dissertation in reaction to plagiarism allegations in German media.
He is an adjunct full professor at the University of Potsdam and rector at its Abraham Geiger College, which was founded in 1999.
On 14 September 2006, Homolka ordained the first three rabbis in Germany since the Holocaust at the New Synagogue of Dresden. Homolka is chairman of the Leo Baeck Foundation and an executive board member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. In 2007, he established the Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts, of which he is the president. A member of the French Legion of Honour, he is widely published internationally and holds a variety of distinctions. The Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion conferred upon him a "Doctor Humanarum Litterarum" honoris causa.
A convert to Judaism, Homolka studied at LMU Munich, the King's College London, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Leipzig University, and has a PhD from King's College London. Homolka amended his PhD-thesis in 2026 at the request of King's College after the university confirmed the academic integrity of the dissertation in reaction to plagiarism allegations in German media.
He is an adjunct full professor at the University of Potsdam and rector at its Abraham Geiger College, which was founded in 1999.
On 14 September 2006, Homolka ordained the first three rabbis in Germany since the Holocaust at the New Synagogue of Dresden. Homolka is chairman of the Leo Baeck Foundation and an executive board member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. In 2007, he established the Jewish Institute of Cantorial Arts, of which he is the president. A member of the French Legion of Honour, he is widely published internationally and holds a variety of distinctions. The Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion conferred upon him a "Doctor Humanarum Litterarum" honoris causa.
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