Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Hanover

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Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Hanover
legal form Nonprofit organization
founding February 27, 1953
Seat c / o Ms. Marktkirchen pastor Hanna Kreisel-Liebermann

Hanns-Lilje-Platz 2
30159 Hanover

main emphasis Fraternity between Christians and Jews

Promotion of tolerance and defense against xenophobia

method Events around the Week of Fraternity
Members 132 (as of 2013)
Website hannover.deutscher-koordinierungsrat.de

The Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Hanover eV , in short society CJZ Hanover or GCJS Hanover as well as CJGH is a registered association founded in the early 1950s in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover with the aim of brotherhood between Christians and Jews . As a member of the German Coordination Council of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR) is one of the organizers of the annual Week of Fraternity .

aims

The purpose of the association is to promote encounters and conversations, especially between people of Christian and Jewish faith , to promote tolerance and to actively fight against xenophobia . The means for this are lectures and concerts, exhibitions, study trips to Israel and Eastern Europe and especially the participation and co-organization of the annual Week of Fraternity.

history

In the post-war period , around seven years after the Nazi era , the journalist Erich Lüth initiated the first society for Christian-Jewish cooperation in Hamburg in 1952 in the former British Zone . The newly founded organization was part of the re-education policy pursued by the United States of America at the time . Only a little later after the founding in Hamburg, Lüth sent an invitation to the board of directors of the Jewish community of Hanover to attend the founding meeting on January 29, 1953.

A good four weeks later, on February 27, 1953, seven personalities signed the notarial deed, which soon afterwards mostly took over club offices;

  1. the school councilor Wilhelmine Ludwig (chairwoman):
  2. the Oberkirchenrat Otto von Harling (1st deputy chairman);
  3. the businessman Norbert Prager (2nd deputy chairman);
  4. the manufacturer Walter Rheinhold (treasurer);
  5. Elisabeth Popper (secretary);
  6. Ilse Alberts (secretary) and
  7. the pediatrician Wilhelm Riehn .

Other founding members were Hans Heinrich Ambrosius, Hanns Kotulla, Ludwig Lazarus , Adolf Nussbaum, Dr. LA Rose-Teblée and Hans Scharnweber.

Just a few months after the founding meeting, on June 25th of that year the members formed an educational working group "to combat the Ludendorff group , which was only banned in 1961."

When it was entered in the register of associations on December 4, 1953, the organization initially called itself - after lengthy disputes, in particular with the school councilor Wilhelmine Ludwig, who was not a member of any religious community - initially "Gesellschaft für Brüderlichkeit eV" It was not until October 10, 1977 that the association was given its current name.

Of particular importance was the exhibition on the Auschwitz concentration camp presented by the CJZ in 1965 in what was then the Hanover Adult Education Center . Of the in Frankfurt seated Confederation of Education developed exhibition of 17 November to 14 December 1965 had a total of 29,075 visitors.

Another well-attended event was the “Religious Discussion in a critical connection to the public disputation in July 1704 at the Electoral Court of Hanover in the apartments of the Electress Mother ” held on March 5, 1975 .

On November 9, 1978, on the initiative of the CJZ Hanover, the memorial was inaugurated in the place of the synagogue destroyed in 1938 in the street Rote Reihe .

On March 3 and 4, 1979, the nationwide central event for the Week of Brotherhood took place in Hanover under the heading “Tolerance Today - 250 Years After Lessing and Mendelssohn ”. After a panel discussion at the then University of Hanover and a ceremony in the Norbert Prager Hall of the Jewish Community, the Buber Rosenzweig Medal was finally awarded to the writer Manès Sperber in the orangery of the Great Garden in Herrenhausen .

A city ​​partnership between the city of Hanover and a twin city ​​in Israel proposed by the CJZ Hanover in 1985 did not materialize.

Theological working group

The theological working group to investigate unifying but also dividing statements of faith between Christianity and Judaism was initiated in 1986 and headed by Friedrich Stäblein until 2000, then by Hans-Joachim Schreiber. The meeting point for the monthly get-togethers, which are organized jointly with the Association of Encounters between Christians and Jews - Lower Saxony eV , is the parish hall of the Marktkirche at Kreuzstrasse 3–5.

literature

  • Ewald Wirth: Sachor (commemorate): A memory for the future. 60 years of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Hannover eV 1953 - 2013 , illustrated brochure with a chronicle, 2013; as a PDF document

Abraham plaque

Since 2012, the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation has been awarding the Abraham plaque annually as part of the Week of Brotherhood to schools that have campaigned in a special way “ Against forgetting ” in line with the goals of the GCJZ Hanover. Previous winners were:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ewald Wirth: Sachor (commemoration): The future a memory. 60 years of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Hannover eV 1953 - 2013 , illustrated brochure with a chronicle, 2013; as a PDF document from hannover.deutscher-koordinierungsrat.de
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ^ A b c Peter Schulze : Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 218f.