Felix Jud

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Felix Jud (born March 7, 1899 in Wilhelmsthal , district of Habelschwerdt in the province of Silesia , † August 27, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German bookseller , owner of the Hamburg bookstore Felix Jud & Co. and a declared opponent of the Nazi state .

Life

After completing his school career, Felix Jud completed a commercial apprenticeship at a hardware store and then worked as a bookseller. From 1919 he worked in Hamburg, in November 1923 he opened his bookshop at Colonnaden 104 in the Hamburg-Neustadt district .

In 1923 Felix Jud founded his “Hamburger Bücherstube” in Colonnaden 104. Wilfried Weber, employee since 1962 and business partner of Felix Jud from 1972, died on August 22nd, 2016. Today the traditional establishment is run by Marina Krauth, who was trained as a bookseller by Felix Jud.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Jud was opposed Nazi regime against. He refused to change his Jewish-sounding surname, although this was recommended by the Nazi authorities. Jud provoked, among other things, through his creative shop window displays. This is how the Hamburger Bücherstube is portrayed in an anniversary publication:

“He hung a large baroque frame in his shop window, at the top under the picture ledge was the caricature of the Jews from the striker 'Jud remains Jud' - the crooked, crooked-nosed, pot-bellied weekly Jew. Including Felix Jud, a photo as a baby on a lambskin , then a photo as a confirmation , another from the present, including 'Jud remains Jud'. There was no doubt about that. But across the board, a laundry board for 'Persil remains Persil'. "

- And who will get the toys? 75 years of the Hamburger Bücherstube Felix Jud & Co.

Felix Jud secretly sold literature that was banned during the Nazi era to trustworthy customers and introduced those who bought these books to one another. His bookstore became a popular meeting place for various opponents of the regime, for example Anne-Marie Vogler and Eduard Bargheer , and resistance groups such as the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen group , the Robinsohn-Strassmann group and the White Rose Hamburg . He cultivated close relationships with members from this group in particular and met them at meetings and events of the so-called Cabinet of the Muses . Jud reportedly held regular reading evenings in his book room.

The shop window at Neuer Wall 13 (left)

On December 18, 1943, he was arrested and taken to the Fuhlsbüttel police prison; on June 6, 1944, he was transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp . Jud was indicted together with Albert Suhr , Hannelore Willbrandt , Ursula de Boor and Wilhelm Stoldt in part of the trials against the White Rose Hamburg. The main hearing against him took place on April 19, 1945 before the People's Court , which was sitting in Hamburg , while the Allied forces had already freed the other defendants from the prisons in Stendal and Bayreuth . He was sentenced to four years in prison and freed in May 1945 after the British forces arrived in Hamburg.

Hamburger Bucherstube Felix Jud & Co, Mellin-Passage

After the war, Jud was a cultural policy advisor to the Allies , a member of the Cultural Council on Denazification , which was founded on January 2, 1946, and a founding member of the FDP regional association , a member of the administrative board of the Hamburg public library and co-founder of the North German Association of Publishers and Booksellers .

In 1948, Jud moved the bookstore to Neuen Wall No. 39, and a few years later to the Mellin Passage of the Alsterarkaden . There it continued to exist under the name Felix Jud GmbH & Co. KG Buchhandlung. and today operates under the name Felix Jud Buchhandel Antiquariat Kunsthandel .

In the Hamburg-Neuallermöhe district , the Felix-Jud-Ring is named after him.

See also

literature

  • Rainer Moritz : “The snakes were fed before the shop opened.” Stories by Felix Jud Buchhandlung Antiquariat Kunsthandel. 168 pages. Verlag Felix Jud, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-9813318-7-5
  • Angela Bottin: Tight time. Traces of displaced and persecuted people at the University of Hamburg. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Audimax of the University of Hamburg from February 22 to May 17, 1991. Hamburg Contributions to the History of Science Volume 11, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-496-00419-3
  • Christoph Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945–1953. Start as a bourgeois left party ; Dissertation at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg 2004, Martin Meidenbauer Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , pages 106-109
  • Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933–1945 , second edition, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-87682-036-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth according to Ursel Hochmuth: Candidates of Humanity. Documentation on the Hamburg White Rose on the occasion of Hans Leipelt's 50th birthday . Ed .: Association of anti-fascists and persecuted persons of the Nazi regime Hamburg eV, Hamburg 1971, p. 12
  2. ^ Matthias Gretzschel: Hamburg institution "Felix Jud" celebrates its 90th birthday , Hamburger Abendblatt , October 16, 2013
  3. ↑ Wilfried Weber and Marina Krauth: And who gets the toys. 75 Years Hamburger Bücherstube Felix Jud & Co. , Hamburg 1998 Excerpt , accessed on February 4, 2011
  4. ^ Christoph Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945–1953. Start as a bourgeois left party , Munich 2007, p. 106f
  5. ↑ Ursel Hochmuth , Gertrud Meyer : Streiflichter from the Hamburg resistance. 1933-1945 , pages 392 ff .; Maike Bruhns , Art in Crisis. Volume 1: Hamburg Art in the “Third Reich” , pp. 222, 324, 472
  6. ↑ Maike Bruhns : Art in the Crisis . Volume 1: Hamburg Art in the “Third Reich” , Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-93-6 , p. 472
personal data
SURNAME Jud, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmsthal
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1985
Place of death Hamburg