Alfred Selbiger

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Alfred Selbiger (born May 3, 1914 in Berlin ; † November 20, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp or in the Lichterfelde subcamp ) was a youth leader and victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Stumbling stone at the house, Güldenhofer Ufer 10, in Berlin-Baumschulenweg

Alfred Selbiger, son of a teacher, studied medicine and attended a rabbinical seminary . From 1933 he led Zionist youth groups in Berlin and was youth leader at Gut Havelberg for the agricultural and manual training of Palestine pioneers ( Hachschara ). Then he worked again from Berlin for youth emigration in the Palestine Office.

From 1941 he worked in the finance department of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany . In secret he continued to work for the Hechaluz .

After the "Community Action" at the beginning of December 1942, he was arrested as a hostage with 19 other members of the Reich Association for Jews who did not appear for deportation , and with some other senior employees of the Reich Association and the Jewish Community in Berlin by the SS on November 20, 1942 shot. The official date of death was given as December 1, 1942. His wife and parents were also victims of the Holocaust.

In 2008, Stolpersteine ​​were donated for him and his family at his residence at Güldenhofer Ufer 10 in Baumschulenweg .

Literature (selection)

  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Probation in the downfall. A memorial book , Stuttgart 1965, p. 152
  • Gudrun Maierhof: Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 . Campus Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-593-37042-5 .
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 , p. 304.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 339.

Web links

Commons : Alfred Selbiger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Berlin's Memorial Book of Jewish Victims of National Socialism , 1995, p. 1184, Selbiger was born in 1911. Information from Gudrun Maierhof: Assertiveness in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 . Campus Verlag, 2002, p. 345
  2. ↑ Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, Chana C. Schütz, Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum: Jews in Berlin 1938-1945 , Berlin 2000, p. 301
  3. ↑ Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, Chana C. Schütz, Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum: Jews in Berlin 1938-1945 , Berlin 2000, p. 309ff, p. 312
personal data
SURNAME Same, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German youth leader, Zionist and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1942
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp or Lichterfelde subcamp