David Alexander Winter

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David Alexander Winter (1931)

David Alexander Winter (born November 23, 1878 in Mönchengladbach ; died October 13, 1953 in London ) was a German rabbi .

Life

David Alexander Winter was the son of the businessman Josef Winter and Sarah nee Rosenbaum. His maternal great-grandfather was Rabbi Mendel Rosenbaum (1782–1868), who founded a Talmudic school in Zell am Main .

David Alexander Winter attended the Kaiser Wilhelm High School in Cologne until he graduated from high school in 1898 and then initially attended the yeshiva in Halberstadt for one year . He enrolled at the University of Berlin in 1899 and attended the rabbinical school there . In 1904 he was ordained a rabbi and in 1906 at the University of Halle as a Dr. phil. PhD. Winter passed the Prussian senior teacher examination in 1908 and was granted the license to teach German and history at grammar schools in 1910. From 1907 to 1913 he worked as a rabbi in Mysłowice in Upper Silesia. From 1912 to 1921 David Alexander Winter was rabbi in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . From 1916 he took part in the First World War as a field rabbi , first in the 12th Army , from 1918 in the 10th Army .

After the war, he succeeded Salomon Carlebach and his son Joseph from 1921 until he emigrated to England in 1938, the last rabbi of the Jewish community in Lübeck before the Second World War. During this time, he was still trying to promote understanding of Jewish culture in the early 1930s. So David Alexander Winter gave the opening speech for those of Julius Carlebach newly created collection of Judaica in Lübeck Ethnographic collection in the Museum am Dom . In 1934 he sought to remedy the exclusion of Jews by founding an eight-class Jewish elementary school; this lasted until 1940 after his emigration. As early as 1933, after the emigration of his colleague there, he was also responsible for the rabbinate in Kiel and in 1936 also became the regional rabbi of Mecklenburg . He emigrated to England in September 1938 with his wife Amalie, née Wertheim (1895–1989) and their four children, and so no longer had to witness the destruction of the Reichspogromnacht in his Lübeck synagogue there. His wife immigrated to Israel with the children after his death . David Alexander Winter found his final resting place in the Sanhedria cemetery in Jerusalem .

Fonts

  • The politics of Pisa during the years 1268–1282. 1906 (dissertation).
  • The Jewish cemetery in Moisling and Lübeck. 1910.
  • Sheets of memory on the 50th anniversary of the Israelite Women's Association in Lübeck. 1927.
  • Spiritual struggles over questions of life and worldview of Judaism around the middle of the nineteenth century: depicted according to the Bavarian state acts. Jeschurun ​​Publishing House, 1929.
  • (Posthumous): History of the Jewish community in Moisling, Lübeck. With a biography of the author by Hans Chanoch Meyer , Lübeck 1968.

literature

  • Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach : The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 659 ( digitized version )
  • Sabine Hank, Hermann Simon : Field rabbi in the German armed forces of the First World War. (Series of publications by the Centrum Judaicum 7), Hentrich & Hentrich-Verlag, Berlin 2013 ISBN 9783938485767
  • Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 175.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rabbinate Homburg at www.alemannia-judaica.de
  2. ^ Photo by David Alexander Winters at the field service in 1917 in the Jewish Museum Berlin .
  3. ↑ David Alexander Winter: Jewish cult in the family and worship - with photos , lecture from May 8, 1932
  4. ↑ Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014 ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0
personal data
SURNAME Winter, David Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1953
Place of death London