Gudrun Goeseke

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Gudrun Goeseke (born April 21, 1925 as Gudrun Mücke in Meißen ; † February 23, 2008 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German orientalist and until 1987 head of the library of the German Oriental Society in Halle. She is considered to be the savior of the archive of the Jewish community in Halle.

Life

The Gudrun Goesekes family comes from Rybnik in Upper Silesia. After Prussia ceded the territory to Poland, the family moved to Meißen, where she was born. Her father Albert Mücke, convicted of high treason by the National Socialists, survived the war but died in 1956 as a result of imprisonment and abuse. First in Leipzig, then in Halle (Saale), Goeseke studied Oriental and Semitic and graduated in 1953 with a thesis on "The grammatical congruence in the language of the Koran". She was denied a doctorate. She worked as a freelancer for the Commission for Late Antique Religious History at the Academy of Sciences and since 1959 has been a lecturer for written New Arabic. From 1961 to 1987 she was the head of the library of the German Oriental Society in Halle.

On December 12, 1988 Gudrun Goeseke was accepted as a member of the Jewish community. In 1989 she informed the public about a scandal involving the head of the Jewish community in Halle, Karin Mylius . In the samizdat of the ecological working group in Halle she published an article in which she made Mylius' identity as a non-Jew public. As a volunteer, she did work in the dilapidated Jewish cemetery with Aktion Sühnezeichen , designed the Hebrew script for the memorial on Jerusalemer Platz in Halle and maintained contacts with the relatives of murdered Jews in Halle and provided assistance in clearing up their lost property. She was a member of the first city council of the city of Halle in reunified Germany and a founding member and honorary chairwoman of the Zeit-Geschichte (n) Halle eV association

Services

Gudrun Goeseke found the archival documents of the Jewish community in Halle an der Saale, believed to have disappeared after the Second World War, in 1978 in the basement of the community center of the Jewish community in Grosse Märkerstraße. Against the resistance of the head of the community at the time, Karin Mylius, she secured the documents and saved them from deterioration. In her free time, she organized the documents and made an initial list. Today the documents can be found in the Halle city archive as a collection of “Zeit-Geschichte (n) - Gudrun Goeseke”. Gudrun Goesekes Fund and their research form the basis for today's knowledge of the formerly living in Halle Jewish citizens and now in memory of her from time club history (s) together with the artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks .

Honors

  • In 2007 Gudrun Goeseke was awarded the Emil Fackenheim Prize of the Jewish Community in Halle.
  • In 2015 the city council decided to name a street after Gudrun Goeseke.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zeit-geschichten.de/visuals/Laudatio_Goeseke.pdf
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ddr-samisdat.de
  3. ↑ http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/4618
  4. ↑ http://hallespektrum.de/nachrichten/vermischtes/stadt-ehrt-gudrun-goeseke-mit-strassennamen/149172/
personal data
SURNAME Goeseke, Gudrun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mücke, Gudrun (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist, savior of the archive of the Jewish community in Halle
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2008
Place of death Halle (Saale)