Fritzmartin Ascher

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Fritzmartin Ascher (born September 22, 1895 in Mannheim , † April 15, 1975 in Crailsheim ) was a teacher and local politician.

Life

The pharmacist's son attended grammar school from 1904 to 1813. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. He became a prisoner of war and was interned in Switzerland. From 1918/19 to 1921 he studied zoology, mathematics and botany in Bern, Marburg and Heidelberg; he obtained his doctorate in 1923. When he arrived in Switzerland, he met the primary school teacher Elsa Schütz (born August 23, 1895 in Thun / Switzerland; † 1976), whom he married in April 1925 in Mannheim. Her daughters were Marianne (* 1927) and Aude (* 1930). At the end of April 1926, Elsa had resigned from teaching in Bern and had her pension fund share paid out to Germany. His daughter Aude married the engineer Bernhard Caesar Einstein , the grandson of Albert Einstein and Mileva Einstein , in 1954 .

Fritzmartin Ascher worked as a teacher, from 1925 or 1927 as a high school professor at the Hilda high school in Pforzheim. After being on leave of absence from October 4, 1935 as a Jew and then being banned from working, he made his way as a street sweeper, milk trucker, cemetery gardener and grave digger. The couple was advised to divorce. When they had to leave their apartment, they moved to Mühlacker . Ascher worked as a teacher in the Free City of Danzig for a while before the Jewish secondary school there was closed in 1938.

In June 1945 he was appointed mayor of Mühlacker by the French military governor (confirmed in March 1946). In 1947/48 he was district administrator in the Waiblingen district. From 1948 to 1962 he was headmaster of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Crailsheim.

Fonts

  • with Curt Herbst: Contributions to the developmental physiology of the coloring and drawing of animals: The influence of lighting from below on the color of the fire salamander. Critical comments on the work of Mac Bride "Influence of the color of the background on the color of the skin of Salamandra maculosa" . 1927
  • In search of the last resort . Baier, Crailsheim 1975 (2nd edition 2000)

literature

  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 154-155 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commemoration: Ascher enjoyed great respect ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ "Fritzmartin Ascher" in the Stadtwiki ( memento from August 18, 2012 on WebCite )
  3. ↑ Mühlacker (Enzkreis). Jewish history at Alemannia Judaica - working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region, June 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Hilda-Gymnasium Pforzheim (ed.): 75 years Hilda-Schule Pforzheim 1907–1982 , Pforzheim 1982, p. 19.
  5. ↑ Erwin Lichtenstein : The Jews of the Free City of Danzig under the rule of National Socialism . Mohr, Tübingen 1973, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Ascher, Fritzmartin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1975
Place of death Crailsheim