 Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary

The Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary (officially in until 1880, thereafter "Rabbiner-Seminar zu Berlin"; in , "Bet ha-midrash le-Rabanim be-Berlin") was founded in Berlin on 22 October 1873 by Rabbi Dr. Israel Hildesheimer for the training of rabbis in the tradition of Orthodox Judaism.In accepting the call as the first rabbi of the new Berlin Orthodox congregation, the Israelite Synagogal Congregation of Adass Yisroel (, ) in 1869, Israel Hildesheimer stipulated that he should be allowed to continue his activities as rabbinical teacher just as he had done at his former rabbinical office in Eisenstadt, Hungary.