Ernst Marbach

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Ernst Marbach (born February 16, 1893 in Berlin , † April 17, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher.

Life

Ernst Marbach, the son of the Potsdam secondary school teacher Oswald Marbach, came from an assimilated Jewish family. His grandfather Woldemar Marbach, a practicing doctor in Breslau , was already baptized as a Protestant.

Ernst Marbach studied classical philology at the Berlin University , interrupted by his deployment in the First World War . In 1920 he was at Eduard Norden with a dissertation on the yellowing -Nachahmung of Valerius Flaccus Dr. phil. doctorate and passed the state examination.

After the probationary year, Marbach initially only received temporary positions. In addition, he earned money by writing articles on religious studies for the Realencyklopadie der classical antiquity on behalf of Wilhelm Kroll . In 1929 Marbach was employed as a teacher at the Philanthropin in Frankfurt am Main, a higher school of the city's Jewish community.

After the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938, Marbach and other teachers were deported by the philanthropist to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he was subjected to physical and psychological abuse throughout the winter. He was released in January 1939. Hunger and cold had exhausted him and his frozen legs had to be amputated. He died on April 17th after suffering from the consequences of imprisonment.

Ernst Marbach evidently had the idea of ​​leaving for Palestine . Already aware that this would no longer work, he wrote a very sensitive letter to his former student Erich Jehoshua Marx, the son of the writer Leopold Marx , who was already in Palestine .

“My dear Erich Marx! Thank you very much for your postcard greetings. I immediately arranged for your school leaving certificate to be sent; You can be quite satisfied with him if I had dreamed of something nicer for you too. In any case, however, you will see that it was the right thing for a person like you to attend upper school and do the Abitur. They have proven their worth everywhere. We do not have to worry about your future either, you will be reliable and courageous everywhere. Our Palestinian trip, which we had been looking forward to so much, will hardly come off now; but if we should come back we will of course visit you. - And now, my dear Erich Marx, from the bottom of my heart all the best for your life! I would like you to remember your last class teacher as fondly as he will always think of you. Sincerely yours, Ernst Marbach. "

Fonts (selection)

  • Quomodo Valerius Flaccus Vergilium in arte componendi imitatus sit . Berlin 1920 (dissertation)

literature

  • The Philanthropist in Frankfurt am Main: Documents and Memories . Frankfurt am Main 1964
  • November pogrom 1938. The eyewitness accounts of the Wiener Library, London . Frankfurt am Main 2008. ISBN 978-3-633-54233-8 . P. 521ff.
  • Gottfried Kössler, Angelika Rieber, Feli Gürsching (eds.): ... that we were not wanted. November pogrom 1938 in Frankfurt am Main: reports and documents . Frankfurt am Main 1993
  • Peter Bloch : My teachers . Frankfurt 2008. (Contains a portrait and photo of Ernst Marbach)

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Marbach  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Marx: My son Erich Jehoshua. His life path from letters and diaries , Bleicher, Gerlingen, 1996, ISBN 978-3-88350-730-9 , p. 89. For the life of Erich Jehoshua Marx see: Students of the Jüdisches Landschulheims Herrlingen: Erich Jehoshua Marx . Leopold Marx already knew about Ernst Marbach's death, but since his letter was undated, he could not say whether it had been written before Marbach's arrest or after.
personal data
SURNAME Marbach, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1939
Place of death Frankfurt am Main