David Sander

David Sander (born September 13, 1867 in Kórnik , † April 19, 1939 in Gießen ) was a German rabbi .

Life

David Sander was born as the son of Isidor and Flora Sander, b. Basch, born in Kórnik. He attended high schools in Pressburg (Bratislava) and Breslau (Wrocław). At the university there, Sander studied philosophy, philology and history from 1888 and also took up studies at the Jewish theological seminar. In Erlangen he received his doctorate in 1894 on the subject of "The Philosophy of Religion Moses Mendelsohn". In 1895, Sander became the second city rabbi and religion teacher in Karlsruhe , and in 1897 he moved from Upper Hesse to Giessen as provincial rabbi . Together with his wife Johanna, geb. Jochsberger, and the children Hugo (* 1899), Bertha (* 1900) and Flora (* 1903) he lived at Landgrafenstraße 8 in Gießen. Sander also taught at several schools in Giessen.

Sander was a board member of the State Association of Jewish Communities in Hesse and, from 1912, chairman of the Association for Jewish History and Literature in Giessen. In 1932 David Sander retired, but remained a pastor, teacher and prison chaplain.

After the Gießen synagogues were destroyed on November 9, 1938, the Jews who remained in Gießen were forced to move into three "ghetto houses". One of these houses was Sander's home at Landgrafenstrasse 8. David Sander died of natural causes on April 19, 1939 and was buried in the New Cemetery.

Sander's wife Johanna was deported via Darmstadt together with her daughter Bertha in September 1942. Bertha Sander was murdered in Poland, probably in Treblinka. Johanna Sander survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and returned to Giessen in July 1945.

Private library

David Sander had a fairly extensive private library. This came in 1941 through the "Reichsbund Deutsche Familie (RDF) - Combat League for the wealth of children of the able-bodied" as a fictitious gift to the Giessen University Library. It is currently unclear whether Johanna Sander had sold her husband's library under duress to the "Reichsbund" or whether the institution came into the possession of the library in some other way. Johanna Sander estimated the value of Sander's private library after the war as part of a reparation procedure to be 1,800 M. for specialist theological literature and 1,200 M. for a total of 250 volumes of aesthetic literature and classics. To date, a total of 130 volumes in the Sanders theological library in the Giessen University Library have been identified. There is no aesthetic literature among them. A duplicate volume from Sander's private library was given to the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart by the University Library of Giessen, where it was found again as part of a project to search for Nazi-looted property.

Publications

• The Philosophy of Religion of Moses Mendelssohn , dissertation, Erlangen 1894 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Sander, David . In: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis . Edited by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire 1871–1945 . With addenda to Part 1. Ed. By Katrin Nele Jansen. Vol. 2. Munich 2009. No. 2539.
• Olaf Schneider: Free? Swapped? Stolen books from the Nazi era in the Giessen University Library . In: Kasperowski, Ira u. a. (Ed.): Nazi looted property in Hessian libraries . Gießen: University Library 2014 (reports and works from the University Library and the University Archives Gießen; 62), pp. 59–120, [1]
• Monika Suchan: The Exploitation of Jewish Book Holdings in Academic Libraries at the Time of National Socialism: The Example of the Giessen University Library , Humboldt University Berlin, Master's thesis 2005, [2]