Hans Chanoch Meyer

Hans Chanoch Meyer (born October 3, 1909 in Krone , German Reich ; died May 21, 1991 in Dortmund ) was a German-Israeli educator and rabbi.

Life

Hans Martin Meyer was a son of Paul Paltiel Meyer and Emma Esther Gappe, he had three sisters. Meyer attended the secondary school in Bromberg . After the First World War, the family moved to Berlin in 1921, where he attended the Jewish boys' school in Grosse Hamburger Strasse, the Königstädtische Realgymnasium and the Dorotheenstädtische Realgymnasium . He did athletics as a teenager and was a good runner.

Meyer attended the yeshiva in Hildesheim and Frankfurt am Main . From 1929 he studied history, philosophy and Romance languages ​​at the University of Frankfurt am Main and the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1933. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was only allowed to teach in Jewish schools. Meyer's father Paul was imprisoned in Oranienburg concentration camp for a time , the statement that Hans Meyer was imprisoned in Oranienburg concentration camp is incorrect, he made this clear to his interviewer Robert Jütte in 1989. In addition to school, he attended the rabbinical seminary in Berlin from 1934 and passed the rabbinical examination in 1938 . After the German November pogroms in 1938, he emigrated to Palestine in 1939 . Meyer married Traute Chavia Schimmelson in 1939 and they had two children.

From 1940 to 1945 Meyer worked in a textile factory in Kfar Ata , and from 1945 to 1948 head of a youth Alija home in Haifa . Meyer became a soldier in the Israeli army in 1948 and was employed as an archival officer in the archives of the Israeli Defense Ministry from 1949 to 1951. He then worked as a teacher in Haifa and was school director from 1955, in between he was director of the Jewish school Tachkemoni in Antwerp in 1952/53 .

From 1959 Meyer was the state rabbi for Westphalia in Dortmund . In 1963 he returned to Israel and worked again as a school principal. Meyer became a lecturer in the history of Judaism at the Ruhr University in Bochum in 1969 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1973. He gave lectures in youth and adult education in Germany and was an editor for radio broadcasts. From 1967 to 1977 he was the founder and editor of the Documenta Judaica series .

Fonts (selection)

• The political background to the Central German uprising of 1921 . Dissertation Berlin 1933
• Synagogue, cult objects and works of art . 1960
• (Ed.): From the history and life of the Jews in Westphalia . A collective font. Frankfurt am Main: Ner-Tamid, 1963
• with Wilhelm Michaelis, Franz Lorenz (Ed.): Harvest of the Synagogue Recklinghausen. Evidence of Jewish spirituality . 1962
• (Ed.): Max Lazarus : Memories . Dortmund, 1967
• (Ed.): David Alexander Winter : History of the Jewish community in Moisling / Lübeck . 1968
• (Ed.): Heinemann Stern : Why do they actually hate us? 1970
• (Ed.): Joseph Gutmann : Life and work of a Jewish pedagogue . 1977

literature

• Meyer, Hans Chanoch , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 265
• Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": The emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933–1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner, 1991, pp. 201f.
• Meyer, Hans Chanoch , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 497
• Ralf Klötzer: The estate of Rabbi Prof. Dr. Hans Chanoch Meyer: an acquisition by the Westphalian Institute for Regional History . In: Westfälische Forschungen, 45 (1995), pp. 292-294

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Chanoch Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hans Chanoch Meyer in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Jütte, 1998, p. 201