Adin Talbar

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Adin Talbar , ( Hebrew עדין טלבר) also Adin Theilhaber-Talbar, (born October 8, 1921 in Berlin ; died September 6, 2013 in Jerusalem ) was Deputy Director of the Israeli Ministry of Trade and Industry and is the founder of the Israeli Academic Sports Association (ASA). He was active in German-Israeli cooperation .

family

Adin Talbar was grandson of Adolph Theilhaber, a gynecologist and Bavarian Councilor , and son of Felix A. Theilhaber , a dermatologist and author in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century, from Franken came to Berlin and Stefanie Czaplinska 1914, one from Włocławek originating Jewish woman, married.

Life

After primary school at the Zionist-oriented Theodor-Herzl-Schule , Talbar was a student at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, but returned to the Theodor-Herzl-Schule, now headed by Paula Fürst , in 1933 after it had been at the gymnasium after the transfer of power to the National Socialists came to discrimination. After his father was interned in Plötzensee prison for two months in May 1933 and lost his license as a doctor after his release , the family emigrated to Palestine in 1935. Without his parents, Adin Talbar went to Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek , where he learned agriculture for three years. With an individualistic disposition, he left the kibbutz in 1938 and followed his brother Tola Theilhaber to London, where he graduated from the Polytechnic Regent Street School .

World War II and post-war period

After returning to Palestine at the outbreak of World War II , he spent a few months in the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force in 1940 . In 1942 he became an officer in the Palestine Regiment of the British Army, which later became the Jewish Brigade . There he met Hazim Khalidi, with whom he - despite the Arab-Israeli conflict - had a lifelong friendship. Khalidi was later commander of the Syrian Yarmouk Regiment in the Palestinian War 1948-1949 and Jordanian Tourism Director of Jerusalem until 1967. As part of the Jewish Brigade, which emerged from the Palestinian regiment, he was only relocated to Egypt in 1943 and took part in combat operations in 1944 as an Assault Pioneer in Italy.

After the end of the Second World War, Adin Talbar was involved in helping Jewish survivors to flee to Palestine in northern Italy . On a motorcycle trip to Munich one month after the end of the war, Gustave Gilbert, who would later become prison psychologist for the Nuremberg trials , gave him photographs of the Dachau concentration camp in Salzburg . Talbar spent the post-war period in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. During the demobilization of the Jewish brigade, Talbar enrolled at the Institut Paris des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in 1946 . In 1946 he became aware of the situation in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and began to make a film there about living conditions under British administration. Due to the explosive political situation - the whereabouts of the Holocaust survivors had not been clarified and entry restrictions in the British Mandate Palestine continued to apply - Talbar was arrested. The British Under-Secretary of State for War Michael Stewart described the film as "anti-British propaganda", as "subversive ... (with) serious effects on the security [of the British] troops, both in Germany and in Palestine." Talbar spent four months in the British military prison in Bielefeld before he was released on the intercession of Colonel Growes. Growes had been Talbar's commander in the Jewish Brigade.

During his time in prison, Talbar exchanged letters with Arthur Koestler , whom he knew from his father's household, and after his release, Talbar spent some time relaxing at Koestler's house in Wales. Through Koestler, Talbar had come into contact with the Israeli-friendly member of the British Parliament Richard Crossman . However, the only way he could find out about the whereabouts of the footage was that it had been destroyed.

Talbar studied economics at the London School of Economics , but had to drop out because the war of independence broke out in Israel in May 1948 and experienced officers were needed. After two years in the Israeli army , he resumed his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed his bachelor's degree.

government

After graduating, Talbar joined the Israeli Ministry of Finance. Between 1957 and 1960 he was Israeli Economic Consul for Canada in Montreal and between 1961 and 1965 Counselor for Economic Affairs in Washington. During this time he negotiated the Food for Peace Agreement for Israel with the United States, among others . As Deputy Director of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, he was the Israeli negotiator in the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Trade and Customs (GATT) 1965-67, negotiated the economic agreement with Germany from 1965-66 and was a representative of the Israeli Ministry of Commerce to achieve a free trade agreement with of the European Community 1965–1975. He then went into the private sector and became an advisor to UNCTAD and an arbitrator at GATT. Since 1985 Adin Talbar has been Danish Honorary Consul in Jerusalem.

Sports

The final sprint of the Israeli 800 meter championship race in 1942
Final sprint of the Israeli 800 meter championship race in 1942 - Adin Talbar in the striped shirt on the right

Active as a child in the gymnastics and sports departments of Bar Kochba and Makkabi Berlin, Talbar became the Palestinian 800 meter champion in 1942 and middle-distance champion of the 8th British Army in 1945. In 1953 he founded the Israeli Academic Sport Association (ASA) and from 1954 to 1977 was the Israeli representative of ASA at the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU). He was also the chief auditor of the FISU board from 1967 to 1971. Given his success in persuading the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to join FISU and his decades of efforts to contribute to reconciliation between the Eastern and Western blocs through sport, Adin Talbar became an honorary member of FISU in 2001. The American State Department also awarded him a medal for his help in American preparations for the 1967 FISU Universiade.

German-Israeli relations

After the successful negotiations on German economic aid for Israel, Adin Talbar co-founded the German-Israeli Chamber of Commerce in Tel Aviv in 1966. Also in 1966 he was the organizer of an international university basketball tournament in which a German sports team - namely the University of Heidelberg - took part for the first time . The tournament was opened by FISU President Primo Nebiolo . During demonstrations and under the protection of 200 police officers, the Israeli and German team captains exchanged coats of arms in the stadium of Tel Aviv University . The German flag had to be guarded by police officers throughout the tournament. However, this broke the taboo not to hold official youth sports meetings between Israel and Germany in Israel. In 1978 Talbar was the founder and first chairman of the Israeli-German Society in Jerusalem.

Awards

Adin Talbar was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class , in 1984 and the Danish Dannebrog Order in 1993. In 2011 he was made an honorary citizen of Jerusalem.

Movies

  • In Our Own Hands. The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II. (1998)
  • Heroes without a home. (2003)
  • The reunion. (2007)

Publications

  • Memories of the Theodor Herzl School in Berlin. Edited by the German version. Jerusalem 1998.
  • Foreign Trade. Economy. Israel Pocket Library, Jerusalem, 1973.
  • Trade Shows Need Planning. Going into trade fairs. International Trade Center UNCTAD / GATT. Geneva 1982.
  • Sports in the Jewish Brigade. In: Georg Eisen, Haim Kaufman and Manfred Lämmer (Eds.) Sport and Physical Education in Jewish History. Wingate Institute Israel, 2003.
  • Felix A. Theilhaber: Jewish Aviators in the World War . With a foreword by Klaus von Dohnanyi. Ed .: Adin Theilhaber-Talbar, Günther Keller. Self-published, Jerusalem / Minfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029079-4 (first edition: Der Schild, Berlin 1924, facsimile).
  • האחרונה מהעלייה השנייה: זיוה (ha-Aḥaronah meha- ' aliyah ha-sheniyah) . Self-published, Jerusalem 2011 (Hebrew).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Theilhaber: Combating the disposition to illness as a healing method, presented. by a gynecologist (= Hippocrates books for doctors. Volume 13). Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1928.
  2. ^ Statement by Dr. Haffendorf. May 19, 1954.
  3. ^ Theilhaber, Felix Aaron . In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . tape 20 : Susm – Two. . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026907-9 , pp. 45 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Association of Doctors in Germany. 4th July 1934.
  5. ↑ a b c d Henryk Broder : Adolf and his sons. In: Spiegel Online . November 11, 2007 ( einestages.spiegel.de ).
  6. ↑ Summary of Student's Report for Term ending July 14, 1939. M. Theilhaber. The Polytechnic 307-11, Regent Street. London July 14th 1939.
  7. ↑ Gerald Clark. Montreal Star. 15th December 1977.
  8. ^ Robert Fisk : Why an Arab and a Jew fought Hitler, then each other, and died as friends. In: The Independent. November 11, 2003. ( independent.co.uk ).
  9. ↑ In our own hands. The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II. Chuck Olin. Olin Films 1998.
  10. ↑ Certificate. Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques. Paris June 11th 1947.
  11. ^ Letter of Undersecretary State of War Michael Stewart to Member of Parliament Richard HS Crossman. British War Office US / F.872. January 15, 1948.
  12. ↑ Cablegram from Arthur Koestler to Adin Theilhaber. Western Union 323 CX. New York March 1947.
  13. ^ Letter of Member of Parliament Richard HS Crossman to Adin Theilhaber. House of Commons. June 18, 1951.
  14. ↑ Certification of Registration for B.sc. (Econ.) 1947-8. Michael Adin Theilhaber. London School of Economics and Political Science. London October 25th 1947.
  15. ↑ Confirmation of Studies 1950–4. Michael Adin Talbar (Theilhaber). Hebrew University Jerusalem. Jerusalem January 19, 1960.
  16. ↑ a b c Michael Adin Talbar. Short biographies. Israeli-German Society Jerusalem. Jerusalem September 1991.
  17. ^ David Krivine: Jerusalem Post. March 31, 1989.
  18. ^ Bar Kochba - Hakoah Berlin and Makkabi. 1898-1988. Association of former members of the Barkochba-Hakoach ev Tel Aviv 1988.
  19. ↑ Procès Verbaux of Reunions du Comité de la Executif FISU à Tokyo. FISU Secretariat. Tokyo September 1967.
  20. ^ Letter from FISU-Secretary Mic Ostyn to Treasurer and Auditor FISU. FISU. Leuven. August 13, 1971.
  21. ↑ FISU Letter No. 78, 2001.
  22. ^ Letter from Nicholas Rodis, Special Assistant for Athletic Programs to Adin Talbar. US Department of State. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. March 2, 1967.
  23. ^ Award certificate. Michael Adin Talbar. Cross of Merit 1st Class. Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker. Bonn September 12, 1984.
  24. ↑ De kongelige danske Ridderordeners chapter. Copenhagen April 16th 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Talbar, Adin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theilhaber-Talbar, Adin; עדין טלבר
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli sports official
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2013
Place of death Jerusalem