Bernhard Heilig

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Bern (h) ard Heilig (born September 21, 1902 in Proßnitz , Austria-Hungary ; † June 28, 1943 in the Lodz / Litzmannstadt ghetto ) was a German-Czech economist and historian.

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1920, Bernhard Heilig attended the Czech Commercial Academy for one year, worked in business until 1923 and studied economics in Nuremberg and Basel, where he received his doctorate in 1927. He then worked as a freelance academic writer in Paris and Vienna and finally left Austria. Before Czechoslovakia was broken up , he worked for several newspapers and magazines. Among other things, in the Prague self-defense he published his economic-historical commentaries. In his numerous studies he devoted himself to the economic history of the Jews of Western Europe, but above all to the development of the textile industry in Moravia.

On October 21, 1941, he and his wife Vera were deported from Prague to the Lodz / Litzmannstadt ghetto. There he found employment in the statistical department of the archive in February and co-authored, among other things, The Chronicle of the Lodz / Litzmannstadt Ghetto and the “Encyclopedia”. Heilig fell ill with tuberculosis in 1943 and died that same year. He was buried in the Marysin cemetery.

The sources of Bernhard Heilig are tighter than that of the other German editors of the “Ghetto Chronicle” such as Oskar Rosenfeld or Oskar Singer . The author's work has also not been researched.

Fonts

  • “News from the history of the Ehrenstamm company. 1752–1852. ”, In:“ Journal of the German Association for the History of Moravia and Silesia ”Brno, vol. 36 (1934), pp. 9–28.
  • "The first seven months in Litzmannstadt-Ghetto", in: "The Chronicle of the Lodz / Litzmannstadt Ghetto", 5th vol., Ed. by Sascha Feuchert , Erwin Leibfried and Jörg Riecke , Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007, vol. 5: “Supplements”, pp. 9-19.
  • "On the history of the Jews in Moravia.", In: Beiblatt der "Selbstwehr", vol. 28 (1934) H. 46. (November 16, 1934) "Blätter für die Jewish Frau", vol. 8, H. 14 ( November 16, 1934), p. 9f.
  • "Literary advertisements: Dr. Jan Kühndel, Vývoj olomouckých řemesklnických cechů do začátku 17. stol. ", In:" Journal of the German Association for the History of Moravia and Silesia "Brno, vol. 31 (1929), p. 168f.
  • “Literary ads. Dr. Kühndel, Právovárečné mĕšťanstvo v Prostĕjové. ”, In: *“ Journal of the German Association for the History of Moravia and Silesia ”Brno, vol. 33 (1931), pp. 174–177.
  • “A Moravian city and its ghetto.”, In: “Journal of the German Association for the History of Moravia and Silesia” Brno, vol. 34 (1932), pp. 117–126.
  • “The socio-economic setback in modern home work. Based on surveys in the Prossnitz clothing center. Inaugural dissertation to obtain the title of Doctor of Political Science submitted to the philological-historical department of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Basel. ”[Phil. Diss. Masch.], Prague, 1936.
  • “Document on the economic history of the Jews in Prossnitz”, Brno: Jewish book and art publisher, 1929.
  • “The forerunners of the Moravian clothing industry in their struggle with the guilds.”, In: “Yearbook of the Society for the History of Jews in the Czechoslovak Republic” Prague, vol. 1 (1929), pp. 307–448.
  • "The precursors of the Moravian clothing industry.", In: "Journal of the German Association for the History of Moravia and Silesia" Brno, vol. 33 (1931), pp. 177–178.
  • “Aims and ways of an economic history of the Jews in the Czechoslovak Republic. A critical-programmatic study by Dr. Bernhard Heilig. ”, In:“ Yearbook of the Society for the History of Jews in the Czechoslovak Republic ”Prague, vol. 4 (1932), pp. 7–62.
  • “The origins of the Proßnitz clothing industry. With 1 card. ”, In:“ Journal of the German Association for the History of Moravia and Silesia ”Brno, vol. 31 (1929), pp. 14–35.

literature

  • The Chronicle of the Ghetto Lodz / Litzmannstadt, 5 volumes, ed. by Sascha Feuchert , Erwin Leibfried and Jörg Riecke , Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007.
  • "Kronika Getta Lodzkiego / Litzmannstadt Ghetto 1941–1944". Opracowanie i redakcja naukowa Julian Baranowski, Krystyna Radziszewska, Jacek Walicki, Ewa Wiatr, Piotr Zawilski u. a. 5 volumes. Łódź: Archivum Panstwowe w Lodzi / Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego, 2009. [Polish edition of the "Chronicle".]
  • Andrea Löw: Jews in the Litzmannstadt ghetto. Living conditions, self-perception, behavior . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0050-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brno Business Academy?
  2. ↑ Cf. Heilig, Bernhard: "On the history of the Jews in Moravia", in: Beiblatt der "Selbstwehr", H. 46. (November 16, 1934): "Blätter für die Jewish Frau", H. 14. (16. November 1934), p. 9f.
  3. ↑ Cf. “The Chronicle of the Lodz / Litzmannstadt Ghetto”, 5 volumes, ed. by Sascha Feuchert, Erwin Leibfried and Jörg Riecke, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007, here vol. 5: “Supplemente”, pp. 167–190, here p. 180.
  4. ↑ See ibid .: 180, 361.
  5. ↑ The Ghetto Encyclopedia is the second major project of the Jewish community in the Lodz / Litzmannstadt ghetto. Personalities, institutions, events and objects from the ghetto were explained on individual index cards and prepared for readers from the future. Copies of the manuscript of the "Encyclopedia" are in archives in Poland, Israel and the USA.
  6. ↑ Cf. “The Chronicle” Vol. 5: 180.
personal data
SURNAME Holy, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holy, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Czech economist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Prostějov
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1943
Place of death Ghetto Lodz / Litzmannstadt