Background
Akiba (or Ekiva or Akiva) Wertheimer was born in about 1778 in Wrocław, Poland, the son of Torah scholar Avigdor Wertheimer (?-1826) who came from the Prussian partition area of Poland.
Akiba (or Ekiva or Akiva) Wertheimer was born in about 1778 in Wrocław, Poland, the son of Torah scholar Avigdor Wertheimer (?-1826) who came from the Prussian partition area of Poland.
He went to the Talmudic academy of Akiba Eger, the most important in Mirosławiec. In 1806 he was appointed Rabbi in Moisling and Lübeck. Due to the expulsion of the Jews in Lübeck and poverty in the Moisling Jewish community, in 1816 he moved to Altona where he remained until his death.
In 1823 he was appointed the first Chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein.
Foreign the Altona rabbinate, he was successor to Rabbi Mendel Hirsch Frankfurter, the grandfather of Samson Raphael Hirsch. Akiba Wertheimer died in Altona in 1835, and was succeeded as Chief Rabbi by Jacob Ettlinger.
Betty Wertheimer Miriam Wertheimer Hanna Wertheimer Jakob Wertheimer (1799–??) ∞ Renette Levy Abraham Hirsch Wertheimer Meir (Meyer) Wertheimer who emigrated to Birmingham, England, where he changed his name to Martin Wertheimer and became a jeweller Jette Wertheimer (1801–1890) ∞ Isaac Joseph Michael (1795–??) Abraham Suhl: Zu Constantin Brunners Biographie.