Hajo Meyer

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Hajo G. Meyer (born August 12, 1924 in Bielefeld ; † August 23, 2014 ) was a German-Dutch physicist and author .

Life

Meyer fled Nazi persecution to the Netherlands in 1938 as a Jew without his parents . From 1943 he tried to hide there, but was arrested after a year and imprisoned in Auschwitz for nine months .

He studied theoretical physics in the Netherlands . He worked at Philips until he retired . Then he dealt with the construction of musical instruments.

In the last years of his life he became politically active. Among other things, he led the NGO Een Ander Joods Geluid , which tries to support the Middle East peace efforts by encouraging the Jewish community to discuss the Israeli government opinion. He was a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network in support of the rights of the Palestinians. Meyer also advocated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions .

For his book Das Ende des Judentums , in which he described the Holocaust as a “whim of history”, speculated about a future intention of the Jews for world domination and repeatedly compared Israeli politics with that of the National Socialists, Meyer was supported by Henryk M. Broder sharply criticized. Broder accused him and his publisher Abraham Melzer, among other things, of "making Adolf", and described both as "capacities for applied Judaophobia". The Melzer Verlag then obtained an injunction against such statements and thus triggered a much-noticed public debate. After Broder's action against the preliminary injunction and a partial success before the Frankfurt Regional Court, the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court decided in the final instance that both of Broder’s statements quoted above “after everything that is in Meyer's book and was said at the reading in Leipzig” are permissible. It thus lifted the injunction in relation to the statements made against Meyer in full. In particular, it was established that there could also be anti-Semitism emanating from Jews .

Hajo Meyer, together with Rolf Verleger and Ruth Asfour, was on the advisory board of the anti-Zionist two-month magazine Semit, which was last published by Melzer Verlag until 2012 .

Meyer was a member of the GroenLinks party .

Publications

  • The end of Judaism , Neu-Isenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937389-58-X
  • The end of Judaism in: Georg Meggle (Ed.): Germany, Israel, Palestine. Polemics. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, 2007, pp. 191–304, content , ISBN 978-3-434-50605-8 .
  • Tragic fate. German Judaism and the Effect of Historical Forces - An Exercise in Applied Philosophy of History , Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86596-174-7
  • Judaism, Zionism, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism. Attempt to define a term , Frank & Timme, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86596-226-3
  • The return of evil. Texts on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism , Frank & Timme, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86596-383-3
  • Letters from a refugee 1939–1945. A Jewish boy in exile in Holland , Frank & Timme, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86596-538-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alex Feuerherdt : Henryk M. Broder. "Made Adolf" . In: Tagesspiegel, November 9, 2007.
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 26, 2006
  3. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 27, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hajo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Hajo G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch physicist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 2014