Abraham Geiger College

52°24′07″N 13°00′40″E / 52.402°N 13.011°E / 52.402; 13.011The Abraham Geiger Kolleg (AGK) in Potsdam, founded in 1999, is a rabbinical seminary, an affiliated institute of the University of Potsdam in the Federal Republic of Germany and the first such new institution in continental Europe since the Shoah. It is named after Abraham Geiger (1810 – 1874), an important representative of liberal Judaism in Germany, and was established by Dr. Jan Mühlstein (then chairman of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany) and Rabbi Walter Jacob z‘‘L. Since 2008, it has also trained cantors.

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