Fritz Rosenfelder

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Stolperstein in Stuttgart, König-Karl-Strasse 66

Fritz Rosenfelder (born December 15, 1901 in Cannstatt ; died April 6, 1933 in Cannstatt) was a German businessman and sportsman.

Life

In the 1920s, Fritz Rosenfelder and his mother Frieda (Fanny) ran a leather shop and leather goods factory in Cannstatt. His grandparents (on his father's side) had moved from Aufhausen to Cannstatt around 1868 . The family became prosperous there and lived on Cannstatter König-Karl-Strasse. In addition to his professional tasks, Rosenfelder devoted himself to water sports and skiing in the gymnastics club Cannstatt in 1846 and was also able to work as a patron. As recently as February 1933, the club gave an appreciative report on a ski trip it had organized.

Since the handover of power to the National Socialists in January 1933, the German Gymnastics Association prepared under its new "Führer" Edmund Neuendorff , a notorious Jew hater, for the main committee meeting in Stuttgart on 8/9. April an amendment of the statutes, so that the member associations should execute the expulsion of their Jewish members. Rosenfelder had the DT's preparatory press releases in his mail, and he became aware of how fellow athletes “set themselves apart” as Jews. Rosenfelder committed suicide with his sport rifle. He tried to shake up his club mates with a suicide note.

The funeral speech was held by the association's member Leopold Marx , who was to be excluded from practice with his son in 1934 and had to emigrate from Germany in 1939. The former fighter pilot Ernst Udet circled above the crematorium and threw a wreath on the Israelite part of the climbing cemetery . Some club members made themselves available as pallbearers. In April 1934 a new board was elected in the gymnastics club Cannstatt, which erased the memory of the club member Rosenfelder. This concealment lasted until 1978, when Der Spiegel took up the topic - albeit poorly journalistically researched (Rainer Redies).

On April 25, the Zionist weekly newspaper Jüdische Rundschau commented on the suicide in a critical tone, because Rosenfelder had hidden his Jewishness from his life and therefore lost his inner stability. The obituary in the community newspaper for the Israelite communities of Württemberg on May 1, 1933, on the other hand, emphasized Rosenfelder's merit for the good relationship between Christians and Jews that had been practiced in the association.

Der Stürmer, No. 30, July 1933, p. 1

During the German Gymnastics Festival in Stuttgart in July 1933, the National Socialist weekly newspaper Der Stürmer appeared with the headline Der tote Jude . The leading article headline followed: German and Jewish gymnastics clubs / Fritz Rosenfelder is sensible and hangs himself up . The defamatory "hang up" was deliberately untruthful claimed by the newspaper. The Stürmer report was picked up by the Nazi press, the "NSDAP news service local group Duisburg Neudorf-Nord", editor in charge H. Heydorn, printed Rosenfelder's farewell letter in August 1933 and commented "nothing against" if the " Jewish question " appeared would be "solved" in this way.

Fonts

literature

  • Henry Wahlig : Suicides of Jewish Sportsmen under National Socialism. The examples of Fritz Rosenfelder and Nelly Neppach , in: Diethelm Blecking , Lorenz Peiffer (eds.) Sportsmen in the “Century of the Camps”. Profiteers, resistors and victims. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt, 2012, pp. 241–247
  • Christine Hartig: Suicides of German Jews. Press reviews of the year 1933 , in: Michael Nagel, Moshe Zimmermann (eds.): Anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism in the German press over five centuries: manifestations, reception, debate and resistance . Bremen: Ed. Lumière, 2013, pp. 691-714

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the photo of the “Sign at the Israelite Cemetery” at Steigfriedhof
  2. ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/images/Images%20192/FS-ROSENFELDER-MORITZ.pdf Family Sheet Moritz Rosenfelder of Aufhausen + Canstatt
  3. ^ Henry Wahlig: Sport on the sidelines: the history of the Jewish sports movement in National Socialist Germany . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015, p. 54f.
  4. ↑ Tremendous farce . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1978 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Christine Hartig: Suicide of German Jews , 2013, pp. 706–708
  6. ↑ The caricature by Philipp Rupprecht is covered for copyright reasons, it does not refer to the leading article about Fritz Rosenfeld.
  7. ↑ Der Stürmer, No. 30, July 1933, pp. 1f.
  8. ↑ Christine Hartig: Suicide of German Jews , 2013, pp. 711f
  9. ↑ Konrad Kwiet , Helmut Eschwege : Self-assertion and resistance - German Jews in the struggle for existence and human dignity 1933–1945 . Hamburg: Christians, 1984, p. 200, reference in footnote 200 on p. 338.
    Konrad Kwiet: The Ultimate Refuge: Suicide in the Jewish Community under the Nazis , Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 19 (1984), p. 147f .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenfelder, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1933
Place of death Cannstatt