Career
In the 1920s he had a law office in Munich together with the later Bavarian Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner. After surviving World World War II as a forced labourer, he returned to Munich, where he became President of the Jewish community. From 1951 until his death in 1969 he served as a Bavarian Senator.
They had a daughter Charlotte Knobloch, who later became President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.