Artur Levi

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Artur Levi (born August 28, 1922 in Munich , † May 27, 2007 in Göttingen ) was a German university professor and twice mayor of the city of Göttingen.

Life

Artur Levi had an older sister (Rosa Emmy, born 1912) and two older brothers (born 1914 and 1919). His parents were the merchant couple Heinrich (1878–1939) and Else Levi (1887–?), Who had married in Strasbourg in 1912 . Since 1919 his father, who had lived in Munich since 1898, was the owner of the Wiener & Co. company, which traded in textile goods, ready-made clothing and furniture. The shop in Munich's Dienerstraße had to close as a result of the November pogroms in 1938 . After attending the Jewish elementary school and secondary school (today: grammar school ) Levi was forced to go into exile in London in 1937 and go to boarding school thereto visit. He then worked as an office clerk at the London Metal Exchange , then for five years in a precision engineering company . His mother Else emigrated from Germany on March 7, 1939 - one day after her husband had committed suicide.

From 1941 onwards, Artur Levi participated in exile in London in the resistance against the Nazi regime . As an active member of the Labor Party , he was involved in the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) from 1944 to 1945 .

Levi returned to Germany in 1946 and has lived in Göttingen ever since. He worked as a trade union secretary until 1950, then began teaching at the University of Education and was an elementary school teacher from 1951 to 1961.

From 1961 to 1985 he taught political science and social studies at the Göttingen University of Education.

Since 1956 he was a member of the SPD councilor in Göttingen, for sixteen years SPD parliamentary group chairman and from 1973–1981 and 1986–1991 honorary mayor (in addition to the full-time senior city director ).

Honors

Memberships

Fonts

  • Exodus Professorum , academic ceremony to unveil a plaque of honor for the professors and lecturers at Georgia Augusta who were dismissed and expelled between 1933 and 1945 on April 18, 1989 (with contributions from Norbert Kamp and Artur Levi and selected testimonials from letters and documents of the dismissed professors). In: Göttinger Universitätsreden , Volume 86. Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-82640-0
  • Christian Graf von Krockow , Artur Levi (ed.): The Soviet Union and its educational system. Report of a study trip . Göttingen 1965, pp. 41-46, 57f.
  • 1873-2003. 130 years of social democracy in Göttingen . Edited by Klaus Wettig , with contributions by Karl Drewes, André Förster, Helga Grebing , Horst Henze, Rolf-Georg Köhler, Artur Levi, Frank Möbus , Horst Helmut Möller, Adelheid von Saldern , Oliver Schael, Lucinde Sternberg, Gerhard Ströhlein, Hannah Vogt as well as “historical” prefaces by Willy Brandt and Gerhard Schröder . Publishing house "Die Werkstatt", ISBN 3-89533-440-5
  • Honorary doctorate Artur Levi. Academic ceremony in the Faculty of Education on January 31, 1992 . Published by the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Göttingen. With contributions by Dietrich Hoffmann, Horst Kuss and Artur Levi. University of Göttingen, Faculty of Education, 1992

literature

  • Ingeborg Nahnsen: Artur Levi . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1993 . Verlag Erich Goltze, Göttingen 1993, p. 302

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV on SPD-Goettingen.de
  2. ↑ Biographical Memorial Book of Munich Jews 1933–1945 . Volume 1 (A-L). Edited by the Munich City Archives, erarb. by Andreas Heusler, Brigitte Schmidt, Eva Ohlen, Tobias Weger and Simone Dicke. Munich (City Archives) 2003, p. 809
  3. ↑ Göttingen City Archives: List of honorary citizens with date of loan
personal data
SURNAME Levi, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2007
Place of death Goettingen