Eugene Gärtner

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Eugen Gärtner (born December 7, 1885 in Schweinfurt ; died March 2, 1980 in Kew Gardens, Queens , New York City , New York , USA ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Eugen Gärtner was the youngest of eleven children of the businessman Abraham Gärtner (* 1843, † 1934 in Nuremberg) and his wife Recha nee. Kohnstamm (* 1843, † 1930 in Nuremberg). He studied from 1905 to 1912 at the University for the Science of Judaism in Berlin and received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg . From 1913 to 1920 Gärtner worked as a rabbi in Dresden , interrupted by military service and deployment on the Western Front. From 1920 to 1924 he was a rabbi in Munich and employed as a specialist teacher for Israelite religion at the Wilhelms- and Maximiliansgymnasium. In 1924 he went to Zwickau . In 1930 he took over the office of regional rabbi in Braunschweig (see also: History of the Jews in Braunschweig # Reform Judaism ), served as president of the B'nai B'rith lodge, and was involved in Jewish welfare.

In 1920 Eugen Gärtner married the fashion designer Helene Rösberg (* 1886 in Butzheim, † 1959 in New York). Son Hans was born in Munich in 1921 and emigrated to the USA in 1936, where he called himself Jack Nathan. The daughter Elisabeth, married. Schumann was born in Zwickau in 1926.

In April 1938 emigrated gardener with his first wife and daughter to New York in the United States , where he carried out until 1940 odd jobs, including 1946 to 1950 worked as a hotel accountant and 1954 as an employee of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York worked , 1956 to 1966 as a librarian . Gärtner married Irma E. Rumann (* 1892 in Frankfurt a. M.) in 1961. In 1976 he lived in Kew Gardens, NY

Works

  • Composition and choice of words of the book of wisdom (writings of the educational institute for the science of Judaism, vol. 2, vol. 2–4) Mayer & Müller, Berlin 1912

literature

  • Andreas Heusler: Eugen Gärtner, b. 1885 (Schweinfurt) . In: Beth ha-Knesseth - meeting place. On the history of the Munich synagogues, their rabbis and cantors. Catalog for the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Munich (December 2, 1999– May 31, 2000). Buchendorfer Verlag , Munich 1999, p. 113, ISBN 3-934036-09-0 .
  • Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach , Katrin Nele Jansen: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2, 1: The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945, with addenda to Part 1: Aaron-Kusznitzki, K · G · Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , pp. 214-215.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1919/20
  2. ↑ Memories of Elisabeth Schumann geb. Gardener, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Gardener, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1980
Place of death Kew Gardens, Queens , New York City , New York , USA