Gustav Krojanker

Gustav Krojanker (born June 1, 1891 in Berlin , died June 1945 in Palestine ) was a German economist , entrepreneur and Zionist publicist.

Life

At the request of his father Wilhelm, a leather goods dealer, Krojanker studied economics in Berlin, Freiburg and Munich. In 1914 he did his doctorate under Lujo Brentano on "The development of the right to organize in England". He became a soldier in World War I and was then a board member of the largest shoe factory in Europe, Conrad Tack & Cie. AG in Burg near Magdeburg, which his father had run since 1888 and, after his death in 1924, his brother Hermann . Afterwards, Krojanker worked exclusively as a journalist.

From 1914 on, Krojanker was a member of the Presidium of the Cartel Association of Jewish Associations (KJV), whose organ “The Jewish Will” he published in 1918/19. His contributions have also appeared in " Der Jude ", the " Jüdischen Rundschau " and the "Jüdischen Revue". After leaving the shoe factory, he briefly headed the " Jüdischer Verlag und Weltverlag " (Berlin).

In 1932 Krojanker emigrated to Palestine. In 1938 he joined the editorial team of the Jüdische Welt-Rundschau . In the same year he was in Germany on behalf of the Jewish Agency for Israel to discuss issues relating to the relocation of Jews to Palestine, particularly the problem of capital transfers .

In the 1940s he got involved in the immigrant party Alijah Chadascha founded by Georg Landauer and became the editor of its organ "Ammudim".

His son David (born in Jerusalem in 1939 ) is an architect and architectural historian who has received several awards in Israel .

Fonts (selection)

• Jews in German Literature: Essays on Contemporary Writers . Edited by Gustav Krojanker, Berlin, 1922, online
• On the problem of the new German nationalism. A Zionist orientation towards the nationalist currents of our time , in: Jüdische Rundschau , 1932
• S. Ben Zion: The Bilu on the way . Freely translated from the Hebrew by Gustav Krojanker, Jerusalem 1935
• The transfer: a question of fate for the Zionist movement . Tel Aviv, 1936
• Chaim Weizmann : Speeches and essays 1901–1936 . Selected and introduced by Gustav Krojanker. Berlin, 1937
• Palestine - Land of Hope for Millions: Danger and Salvation: What the University of Jerusalem means for Judaism today , in: Aufbau 1940, p. 13

literature

• Krojanker, Gustav , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 10, Sp. 1273f.
• Franz Menges:  Krojanker, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 71 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Krojanker, Gustav , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 206
• Krojanker, Gustav , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 398f.

Web links

Wikisource: Magazines (Judaica)  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Gustav Krojanker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Building of the Tack & Cie shoe factory. in Burg on the website of the Heimatverein Burg und Umgebung eV
2. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt: House Krojanker in Burg ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ David Kroyanker: Fifty Years of Israeli Architecture as Reflected in Jerusalem's Buildungs Website of the Israeli Foreign Ministry (English)