Alex Heskel

Alex Heskel (also: Alexander ) (born June 27, 1864 in Kellinghusen ; † July 28, 1943 in Hamburg ) was a German teacher and historian .

Live and act

Heskel came in 1864 in Kellinghusen, the son of Jewish collecteurs Moses Heskel and his Christian wife Fanny, nee Roth books on the world and was later baptized. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium Hamburg . He then studied Classical Languages and German at the universities in Jena , Berlin , Kiel and Marburg . In 1891 he received his doctorate from the University of Kiel . During his studies in 1886 he became a member of the Salia student union in Jena. As this, however, in 1895 Couleur touched down, he met with other members of the cartel connection Holzminda Goettingen over, was finished making the existing cartel.

After completing his studies, he worked as a senior teacher at the Realschule auf der Uhlenhorst in Hamburg from 1896 to 1906 , then as an inspector of the higher education system and was later appointed professor , before becoming director of the public youth welfare agency in Hamburg from 1914 to 1923 .

He was a member of the Association for Hamburg History , wrote many reviews , including in the journal of the Association for Hamburg History, and published numerous articles, in particular with reference to the history of Hamburg . During the time of National Socialism he had to give up the work in the editorial committee of the journal of the Association for Hamburg History due to his origin , but remained a member of the association at the insistence of Hans Nirrnheim . On the other hand, he resigned from the Lübeck History Association in 1935 after it had introduced an Aryan paragraph .

He died in a bomb attack on Hamburg in 1943 . On June 27, 1944, a memorial ceremony took place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Publications (selection)

• The Historia Sicula by Anonymus Vaticanus and Gaufredus Malaterra . A contribution to the study of sources for the history of Lower Italy and Sicily in the 2nd century. Kiel, dissertation dated December 19, 1891.
• Friedrich Lebzelter as Electoral Saxon agent in Hamburg, 1632–1634. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 25, 1924, pp. 210–225. pdf
• Mayor Ascan Wilh. Lutteroth legacy in memory. Hamburg 1928.
• New files on the history of the Hamburg-Danish battles on the Lower Elbe in the spring and summer of 1630. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History Volume 31, 1930, pp. 87–122. pdf
• The arrest of the Danish war councilor Martin von der Meden by the Hamburg council around the turn of 1627/28. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History Volume 36, 1937, pp. 131–145. pdf

Honors

• 1934: Lappenberg Medal from the Association for Hamburg History

literature

• Max Kohlschütter (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Born 1951, Verden, pp. 8–9. (Obituary)
• Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Heskel, Alex . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 186-187 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joist Grolle and Ina Lorenz: The exclusion of Jewish members from the Association for Hamburg History. A long silent chapter of the Nazi era (with biographical appendix). In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History Volume 93, Hamburg 1997, pp. 39–40. [1]
2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 199.
3. ^ Uwe Uhlendorff: History of the youth welfare office. Development lines of public youth welfare 1871 to 1929. Weinheim 2003, p. 297.
4. ^ Joist Grolle and Ina Lorenz: The exclusion of Jewish members from the Association for Hamburg History. A long silent chapter of the Nazi era (with biographical appendix). In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History Volume 93, Hamburg 1997, p. 33. [2]
5. ^ Sheets for German national history . Volume 141/142, Munich 2006, p. 248.
6. ^ Joist Grolle and Ina Lorenz: The exclusion of Jewish members from the Association for Hamburg History. A long silent chapter of the Nazi era (with biographical appendix). In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History Volume 93, Hamburg 1997, p. 49. [3]
7. ↑ Ordinary General Assembly [on 03/25/1935]. In: Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter, Vol. 3, 9th vol., No. 1 (June 1935), pp. 207–213, here p. 213.