Alfred Neugebauer (firefighter)

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The saved Star of David

Alfred Neugebauer (born July 29, 1914 in Dresden ; † August 13, 2006 there ) was a German firefighter , mountaineer and monument conservator . He saved the Star of David in the Dresden synagogue from destruction during the November pogroms in 1938 .

Life

The battlements of the Neurathen Castle, reconstructed according to the excavations of Neugebauer
Alfred Neugebauer's grave in the Old Annenfriedhof

After finishing school, Alfred Neugebauer first learned the profession of stone printer . In his free time he was a mountaineer in the climbing area of ​​Saxon Switzerland and studied the history of Saxony. For a time he was chairman of the youth in the Saxon Mountaineering Association (SBB). Since 1929 he has carried out individual excavations on the Neurathen Castle . After he became a member of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz in 1930 , the first systematic excavations followed in the rock castle from 1932 to 1934. Among other things, Neugebauer discovered the course of the castle's former battlements.

In the early 1930s he moved to the Dresden fire brigade and became a firefighter. In the spring of 1939, after the arson organized by the National Socialists as part of the November pogroms, during which the Semper synagogue burned out, Neugebauer hid the Star of David that had been captured by the fire brigade management. After the war he handed it over to the chairman of the Dresden Jewish community, Leon Löwenkopf, in 1949 . The Star of David was installed on Fiedlerstrasse 3 synagogue in 1950 . Almost half a century later it was attached to the portal of the New Synagogue , which was built from 1998 in the immediate vicinity of the destroyed church.

After the war, Neugebauer worked in different positions, including as a technical and scientific assistant, screen printer and fire protection officer . Even after the war, he did voluntary work in local history research and archeology and, among other things, carried out excavations of the Bronze Age settlement on the Pfaffenstein . He also researched the history of rock castles in Saxon Switzerland. He worked as an employee for the Dresden State Museum of Prehistory , as well as a voluntary ground monument curator . In 1979 Neugebauer retired, but remained active on a voluntary basis. He carried out excavations next to the Pfaffenstein from 1982 to 1984 again in the rock castle Neurathen. After 1990 he was involved in the re-establishment of the Saxon Homeland Security Association. In addition, Neugebauer was active in the Dresden History Association , in the AG Sächsische Burgen of the German Castle Association and as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Dresden . At SBB he was a member of the IG Bergsteigergeschichte. Neugebauer remained active into old age. His grave is in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the State Association of Saxon Homeland Security
  • Honorary member of the Saxon Mountaineering Association (SBB) since 2002
  • Saxon Order of Merit for saving the Star of David, awarded on October 12, 2001.
  • Memorial plaque on the ascent to Pfaffenstein, placed on July 18, 2009.

Publications (selection)

  • Felsenburg Neurathen , Council of the Municipality of Lohmen , 1984.
  • Pfaffenstein and Neurathen , series “Historical and local history contributions from Pirna and the surrounding area”, Volume 5, Pirna City Museum , 1986
  • The rock castles of Saxon and Bohemian Switzerland . In: Castle research from Saxony. Issue 1 (1999), Deutsche Burgenvereinigung e. V., Landesgruppe Sachsen, pp. 9-17, ISBN 3-928492-42-X

literature

  • Konrad Creutz: Alfred Neugebauer. Bulletin 4 of the Saxon Switzerland Working Group in the Saxon Heritage Protection Association. Pirna 2006, p. 3
  • Andreas Fels: On the death of SBB honorary member Alfred Neugebauer . Obituary in: Der Neue Sächsische Bergsteiger , No. 4 (17th year), December 2006, p. 8 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c curriculum vitae ( memento from November 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Saxon Mountaineering Association (accessed on November 8, 2009)
  2. ↑ Peter Rölke (Ed.): Hiking and Nature Guide Sächsische Schweiz, Volume 2, Vordere und Südliche Sächsische Schweiz , Berg- & Naturverlag Peter Rölke, Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-934514-09-X , pp. 54–55
  3. ^ Dietmar Schreier, Manfred Lauffer: The synagogue . In: City of Dresden (Hrsg.): Lost churches: Dresden's destroyed churches. Documentation since 1938 . 2nd expanded edition. Dresden 2014, p. 21 ( online edition [PDF; 6.4 MB ]).
  4. ^ A b CV of Alfred Neugebauer
  5. ↑ Michael Schindler: On the 90th birthday of SBB honorary member Alfred Neugebauer , In: Der neue Sächsische Bergsteiger - Mitteilungsblatt des SBB, Volume 15 No. 3, September 2004, p. 13 ( online as PDF , accessed on December 10, 2013)
  6. ↑ Saxony yesterday and today - Saxon Order of Merit (accessed on November 8, 2009)
  7. ↑ Angela Knöckel-Reinöhl: Saxon Switzerland - Painters & Composers & Other. Retrieved February 1, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Neugebauer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservationist and firefighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2006
Place of death Dresden