Arthur Kronthal

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Arthur Kronthal

Arthur Kronthal (born November 25, 1859 in Posen ; died November 4, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur and regional historian .

life and work

The grandfather Simon Kronthal founded a factory in 1820; the father Wolf Kronthal was politically active and sat on the city council; Arthur Kronthal himself studied mechanical engineering, completed technical training and commercial internships, but he found his calling in history, art and homeland maintenance. He volunteered as a commercial judge, city councilor (1906-1918), as a curator of several institutes for art and science, as a senior board member in associations of scientific, artistic, social and charitable nature. His foundation for art donated numerous paintings to the Art Museum in Poznan.

In his writings he dealt with general and Jewish history and with art in the province of Poznan. Kronthal's activities and publications show that regardless of the current political situation, he always campaigned for rational cooperation between all ethnic and religious classes.

After the province of Poznan became Polish again, he could no longer find employment, and he lost his fortune during the inflation . In 1921 he emigrated to Berlin. In Berlin, Kronthal finally lived in the old people's home of the Jewish community on Berkaer Strasse. In the burial register of the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee there is only one entry under Adolf (Israel) Kronthal, b. 1859, died 1941. This probably explains why most sources state the date of his death as unknown.

In 2012, the Commission for the History of Germans in Poland eV awarded the “Arthur Kronthal Prize” for the first time. "The award is named after the former Poznan regional historian and local politician Arthur Kronthal (1859-1941), whose biography stands for a peaceful coexistence of Germans, Poles and Jews" - this is the justification for the naming by the commission.

Publications (selection)

  • The City Hall in Poznan . Poznan and Lissa, Eulit. 1914
  • Dr. Karol Marcinkowski . Breslau, Priebatsch. 1925
  • Poznan fine art works. Contributions to local history on the ceiling paintings of the town hall in Posen, the Knorrsche painting “Market Square in Posen” and Julius v. Minutoli, Louis Sachse and the Posen City Views of 1833 . Berlin and Leipzig, Walter De Gruyter. 1921
  • From a Jewish life of the previous century . Castle, Hopfer. 1931
  • Jewish portrait painter of the Poznan Biedermeier period . In: Yearbook for Jewish History and Literature. H. 1, 1937. pp. 204-216 http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/titleinfo/3118958

literature

  • Arthur Kronthal 75 years . In: Posener-Heimatblätter, Heft 3, 9th year 1934. P. 14
  • List of publications from retired city councilor Arthur Kronthal . In: German Scientific Journal for Poland: New series of the journals of the Historical Society for Posen and the German Natural Science Association for Greater Poland, at the same time publication of the German Society for Art and Science in Bromberg. Issue 18, pp. 143-149. http://zbc.uz.zgora.pl/dlibra/publication?id=16637&tab=3
  • Iwona Błaszczyk, Jacek Wiesiołowski: Artur Kronthal - poznański bourgeois w: Kronika Miasta Poznania, 1/2009, p. 175
  • Beata Mache: Arthur Kronthal on love of home and emigration from Posen after 1919 . https://phdj.hypotheses.org/158

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of publications by City Council a. D. Arthur Kronthal. In: German Scientific Journal for Poland: New series of the journals of the Historical Society for Posen and the German Natural Science Association for Greater Poland, at the same time publication of the German Society for Art and Science in Bromberg, issue 18, pp. 143-149. Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
  2. ↑ Burial Register. Archive of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum
  3. ^ Commission for the history of the Germans in Poland
personal data
SURNAME Kronthal, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and regional historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1941
Place of death Berlin