Hans-Ferdinand Oppenheim

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Hans-Ferdinand Oppenheim (born September 3, 1878 in Berlin ; † May 10, 1952 ) was a German high school teacher , persecuted by the Nazi regime , university professor in Bitterfeld and member of the board of the Association of Persecuted by the Nazi Regime (VVN) in the GDR .

Life

Oppenheim came from a middle-class family of Jewish origin. He was the son of the Berlin astronomer Heinrich Oppenheim (1847-1896). After attending secondary school, he studied pedagogy and philosophy in Berlin . After his Referendariat taught at a high school until it 1933 the " Law for the Restoration of the Professional " as Jew prohibition received. In 1943 he was in haftiert .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, Oppenheim joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) shortly after it was founded . In Bitterfeld he worked as a professor and lecturer for secondary schools. He brought his experiences from the Nazi persecution to the VVN's work on remembrance policy , and from 1947 to 1952 he was the second chairman of the state board of Saxony-Anhalt . On March 30, 1947 a “ reparation commission ” of the VVN was formed, of which he was a member. It dealt with questions relating to the return of Jewish property to those who had previously been persecuted. From 1948 he was also a member of the VVN Central Board.

At the 55th session of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on 16 June 1950 Oppenheim was for the departed Christian Democrat Brunislaus Warnke member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt appointed. In October 1950 he was re-elected to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt with the mandate of the VVN , which he inaugurated as old-age president on November 3, 1950.

literature

  • Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, Second electoral period , Halle (Saale), September 1951, page 18.
  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 990.
  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 578.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Files and negotiations of the state parliament of the province of Saxony-Anhalt
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Hans-Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, persecuted by the Nazi regime and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1952