Gustav Kron

Stumbling stone in memory of Gustav Kron; Eppendorfer Baum 34 in Hamburg-Eppendorf

Stumbling stone in memory of Selma Kron; Eppendorfer Baum 34 in Hamburg-Eppendorf

Gustav Kron ( April 23, 1878 in Wolfhagen - May 1942 in the Kulmhof extermination camp ) was the last Jewish teacher and prayer leader of the Jewish community in the north Hessian town of Fritzlar .

Life

Gustav Kron received his training as a cantor from 1900 to 1904 at the Israelitisches Lehrerseminar in Kassel . In 1905 he was employed as a teacher by the Jewish community in Westhoffen in Alsace . From 1914 until his illness in 1916 he served as a soldier in the First World War . In 1917 he moved from Westhoffen to Balbronn , where he became cantor. After Alsace had become French again in 1919, Gustav Kron returned to Hesse, where he represented the teacher Viktor Blumenkrohn in Spangenberg . There he married Blumenkrohn's daughter Selma (born April 6, 1890 in Spangenberg) in 1921, who worked in a chemistry laboratory.

From 1919 to 1924 Kron was a teacher and prayer leader in Harmuthsachsen , where his son Walter was born in 1922. After that he was employed by the Jewish community in Fritzlar . In Fritzlar he also gave Hebrew lessons to Catholic and Protestant theology students and taught at the local vocational school.

Hoping to be able to emigrate there too, the family sent their son Walter to the USA on a Kindertransport in 1937 . Kron himself applied to be a cantor in several Jewish communities in the United States, but was not offered a job there.

After his imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the course of the November pogroms in 1938 , Kron moved to Hamburg with his wife and mother , who died there. On October 25, 1941, Gustav and Selma Kron were deported from Hamburg to the Litzmannstadt ghetto . At the end of the year, both were taken to the Kulmhof extermination camp , where they were murdered in May 1942.

Web links

• Gustav Kron, with photos (French, accessed March 6, 2016)
• Rolf Hocke: Gustav Kron on stumbling blocks in Hamburg.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved October 29, 2009.
2. ^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved October 29, 2009.