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Arthur cheers

Arthur Jubelt (born January 31, 1894 in Zeitz ; † December 6, 1947 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a German publisher and local researcher . In 1945 he was acting mayor of Zeitz.

Life

Arthur Jubelt's parents were the publisher and bookseller Reinhold Jubelt and his wife Agnes nee. Herrmann. In 1889, his father founded the Jubelt bookstore on Brüderstraße in Zeitz and, from 1901, published the Zeitzer Neuesten Nachrichten (ZNN). Arthur Jubelt took part in the First World War as an officer from 1915 and was last lieutenant . From 1920 he studied law and art history at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1920 he became active in the Corps Franconia Tübingen . After completing his studies and the unexpected death of his brother Reinhold, he joined his parents' company in 1927 and continued to run it after his father's death in 1934. The monarchist publisher was hostile to National Socialism . In March 1943 the publishing house was closed. Jubelt used the time until the end of the war for research on the local history of his city and region.

During the final weeks of World War II , United States forces occupied Zeitz. Cheered was installed on April 27, 1945 by the American military administration as acting Lord Mayor of the city and successor to the previous Lord Mayor Hugo Ludwig Rath . In July 1945 Zeitz was occupied by Soviet troops . After denunciation on July 17th, he was dismissed from his post by the Soviet administration and arrested on September 5th, 1945. At the age of 53 he starved to death in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald.

The Zeitz City Council honored Arthur Jubelt's achievements for the city and made him an honorary citizen of Zeitz on November 25, 1999 posthumously .

Act

Between 1927 and 1943 Jubelt published the supplement Our home in the picture in Zeitz Latest News in over 100 issues with the findings of his research on the history of the city of Zeitz and its surroundings.

Honors

Memorial plaque Arthur Jubelt on the residential and commercial building Familie Jubelt, Zeitz

On the occasion of the posthumous appointment as an honorary citizen of the city of Zeitz, a memorial plaque was placed on Jubelt's former house in Brüderstraße 14/16 on May 25, 2000 and was unveiled in the presence of Mayor Dieter Kmietczyk, the Jubelt family and other guests and council members. Afterwards Arthur Jubelt was entered in the Golden Book of the city of Zeitz in a ceremony.

The city of Zeitz commemorated Arthur Jubelt with an exhibition in 2000. In 2012/2013 the Gewandhaus gallery in Zeitz showed the exhibition "Arthur Jubelt and his Zeitz - Fight and Failure".

Fonts

  • Our home - Zeitz. Edited by Hans-Joachim Richter. Self-published, Leipzig 1999 (reprint of the individual publications from 1927–1943).

literature

in order of appearance

  • Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Reinhold Jubelt KG company . Zeitz 1939.
  • Annette Kaminsky (ed.): Places of Remembrance: Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-86153-443-3 , p. 432.
  • Hans-Joachim Richter: Arthur Jubelt - a campaigner against ideological censorship in two dictatorships . In: Gerald Wiemers (ed.): Remembering as an obligation. Retired General Doctor Dr. med. Horst Hennig on his 85th birthday . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-556-7 , pp. 163–179.
  • Hans-Joachim Richter: Passion Zeitz. Arthur cheers - vision and reality . Leipzig 2015, 2nd edition 2017.
  • Gerald Wiemers: Review by Hans-Joachim Richter: “Passion Zeitz. Arthur Cheers ” . In: New Archive for Saxon History , ISSN  0944-8195 , Vol. 87 (2016), pp. 409-411.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 127 , 809
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Richter: Arthur Jubelt - Zeitz's bad conscience . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Zeitz edition, No. 106, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Jeske : Citizen fate in Zeitz. Biography of a newspaper publisher . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 20, 2017, p. 18.
  4. ↑ Michaelsbote. Official Gazette of the city of Zeit , 23 June 2012, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Landes: Arthur Jubelt receives honorable memory ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) , In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Zeitz edition, May 26, 2000.
  6. ^ Commemoration of the publisher and mayor Jubelt and his life for Zeitz . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Zeitz edition, December 11, 2000.
  7. ↑ Michaelsbote. Official Journal of the City of Zeit , December 29, 2012, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Cheers, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and homeland researcher, acting Lord Mayor of Zeitz
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1947
Place of death Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald