Arnold Paucker

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Arnold Paucker , OBE (born January 6, 1921 in Berlin ; died October 13, 2016 in London ) was a German-British historian , editor, and science organizer.

The main subject of his academic work was the Jewish self-defense in Wilhelminism and in the Weimar Republic as well as the Jewish resistance against the National Socialist dictatorship after 1933. One of his main concerns was the refutation of the prejudice of an alleged “Jewish passivity”. His special research topics - largely ignored by research into the 1970s - include the "defensive struggle" of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (CV) from 1890 to 1933.

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Arnold Paucker was born in 1921 into an assimilated Jewish family in Berlin-Charlottenburg; his father came from Bucharest and was a leather goods manufacturer, his mother came from Chernivtsi . His younger brother Kurt Paucker (1924–1980) became an American microbiologist . He joined the Jewish youth movement , had to leave school in 1935 due to his Jewish origins and emigrated to Palestine with Alija Bet at the end of 1936 , where he completed an agricultural training in the Ben Shemen children's and youth village . From 1941 he did voluntary service with the Royal Engineers of the British Army . He was used as a soldier in the Africa campaign and in the conquest of Italy . It was retired in Italy in 1947. From 1948 to 1950 he stayed in the USA. In 1950 he came to Great Britain, married an Englishwoman and worked as an export clerk for a bicycle manufacturer.

From 1953 to 1959 he studied German at the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham (MA). It was in 1975 when Werner Conze at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1960 he was appointed director of the Leo Baeck Institute in London (which is dedicated to researching the history of German Jews), which he headed until the summer of 2001. From 1970 to 1992 he was also responsible editor of the Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute . Most recently he was international vice president of the Leo Baeck Institute.

In June 1996, he was awarded the University of Potsdam , the honorary doctorate . In 2011 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The Jewish defensive struggle against anti-Semitism and National Socialism in the last years of the Weimar Republic (= Hamburg Contributions to Contemporary History. 4, ISSN  0440-1689 ). Leibniz, Hamburg 1968.
  • Stand firm and resist. The resistance of German and Austrian Jews against the National Socialist dictatorship (= Stuttgart lectures on contemporary history. 4). Klartext, Essen 1995, ISBN 3-88474-381-3 .
  • German Jews in the Resistance 1933–1945. Facts and problems. German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin 1999, (2nd, expanded and improved edition. Ibid 2003, ISBN 3-926082-14-3 ; digitized version of the 2nd edition (PDF; 596 kB) ).
  • German Jews in the struggle for justice and freedom. Studies on the defense, self-assertion and resistance of German Jews since the end of the 19th century. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2003, ISBN 3-933471-46-X (2nd, improved edition, ibid 2004, ISBN 3-933471-89-3 ).

Editorships

  • with Werner E. Mosse : decision year 1932. On the Jewish question in the final phase of the Weimar Republic. An anthology (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute. 13, ISSN  0459-097X ). Mohr, Tübingen 1965.
  • with Werner E. Mosse: German Judaism in War and Revolution. 1916-1923. An anthology (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute. 25). Mohr, Tübingen 1971, ISBN 3-16-831401-3 .
  • with Hans Liebeschütz : Judaism in the German environment. 1800-1850. Studies on the early history of emancipation (= series of scientific treatises by the Leo Baeck Institute. 35). Mohr, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-16-839412-2 .
  • with Werner E. Mosse: Revolution and Evolution 1848 in German-Jewish history. (Robert Weltsch on his 90th birthday in Grateful Appreciation) (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute. 39). Mohr, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-16-743752-9 .
  • Enlightenment and Acculturation. Persecution under the Nazi Regime (= Leo Baeck Institute. Year Book. 29, ISSN  0075-8744 ). East and West Library, London et al. 1984.
  • From Weimar to Hitler. Demography and Sociology (= Leo Baeck Institute. Year Book. 30). East and West Library, London et al. 1985.
  • with Sylvia Gilchrist and Barbara Suchy: The Jews in National Socialist Germany. 1933-1945. = The Jews in Nazi Germany (= series of scientific treatises by the Leo Baeck Institute. 45). Mohr, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-16-745103-3 .
  • Nineteenth-Century Antisemitism and Nazi Rule (= Leo Baeck Institute. Year Book. 32). East and West Library, London et al. 1987.
  • Emancipation and Defense (= Leo Baeck Institute. Year Book. 33). East and West Library, London et al. 1988.
  • German Jewry. Integration - Self-Questioning - Catastrophe. Post-War Historiography (= Leo Baeck Institute. Year Book. 35). East and West Library, London et al. 1990.
  • A Community assailed (= Leo Baeck Institute. Year Book. 36). East and West Library, London et al. 1991.
  • with Ludger Heid : Jews and German workers' movement until 1933. Social utopias and religious-cultural traditions (= series of scientific papers by the Leo Baeck Institute. 49). Mohr, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-16-146016-2 .
  • Enlightenment and Emancipation Antisemitism, War and Resistance (= Leo Baeck Institute. Year Book. 37). East and West Library, London et al. 1992.
  • with Hans Erler and Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich : “Against all futility”. Jewish resistance against National Socialism. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2003, ISBN 3-593-37362-9 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ From Berlin-Charlottenburg to Oval Road in Camden ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary by Raphael Gross in: tachles , issue No. 43/2016 of October 28, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tachles.ch
  2. ^ Arnold Paucker was awarded the Order of the British Empire at the Officer (OBE) level; see: Birthday honors 2011 >>  Order of the British Empire >>  OBE. (PDF, 199 kB) In: news.bbc.co.uk. BBC , accessed October 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Paucker, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2016
Place of death London