Hans Karl Rosenberg

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Hans Karl Rosenberg (born November 27, 1891 in Cologne , † April 17, 1942 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn .

Life

Rosenberg was born in Cologne as the son of the Catholic seminary teacher Johann Nikolaus Bernhard Rosenberg (1849–1898), who converted to the Catholic faith in 1866 as a Jew. From 1902 to 1911 he was at the Royal Catholic High School at the Apostle Church in Cologne. He then studied history , German literature and economics , in Bonn until 1913, then in Berlin . He took part in the First World War, was wounded and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Wound Badge. After the war he returned to Bonn to study. In 1917 he passed the teaching examination for secondary schools and entered the school service. From 1918 to 1920 he was a professor at the Royal Prince Georg Grammar School in Düsseldorf . At the same time he received his doctorate in philosophy. Until 1924 he was a study assessor at the Lyceum of the Sisters of Our Lady in Ratingen and from 1924 to 1930 at the Lyceum of the Ursulines in Düsseldorf. From 1920 to 1930 he was a lecturer in history and civics at the Düsseldorf Adult Education Center. In 1930 he was appointed professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn . Since then he has lived in Friesdorf . At the Catholic Days in Eupen (1927), Milan (1931) and Essen (1932) he was a speaker and spoke publicly against the National Socialists . In 1932 he was also one of the invited speakers at the Friesdorf 25th anniversary celebration of the Catholic workers' movement there and since 1935 on the church council.

persecution

Since Rosenberg was considered a half-Jew by his father , he was given compulsory leave in April 1933 and then, by the decree of February 20, 1934, in accordance with Section 5.1 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (GWBB), he was first relegated to the office of a student council and then to the early one Retired. At the beginning of 1935 he was banned from membership in the Reichsschrifttumskammer , and in March 1935 Jews were banned from writing. During this time he published his previously unpublished articles under pseudonyms for scientific journals. It was at this time that the authorities asked the wife to divorce her because of his "Jewish descent". From 1936 to 1937 he tried to emigrate with the family to the USA, but the hurdles were much bigger than expected and the family could not meet them. One should have found a sponsor for the family in the States and had a job there. Rosenberg's apartment was under surveillance, and increasing social pressure meant that fewer and fewer acquaintances and friends dared to visit family. In 1939 the family moved from Friesdorf to Bad Godesberg and the spying stopped. After Joseph Roth returned home from the front, he met with Rosenberg in secret:

"Some time after his sudden disappearance, I think it was a few months, Mr. Roth was suddenly back, but did not show up at school. However, he came to our house to visit and my father joined him in his Library. Hours later they broke up and I never saw him again. "

Mentally shattered, Rosenberg finally fell ill with angina pectoris and finally died of the consequences of a medical "non-assistance" in his apartment (his wife called several doctors, but all of them refused to come) at the age of 51. In autumn 1944 two SS men in plain clothes came to pick up "Hans Israel Rosenberg", whereupon the widow showed them the way to the cemetery. From then on, all further persecution of the family stopped.

Works

  • 1922: Doctoral thesis: Justus Möser and the reform of the German nobility
  • 1923: Ildefons Herwegen (Ed.) The Hymns of the Breviary , Freiburg i. Br.
  • 1924: Latin sacred songs of the Middle Ages. Selected and explained for school use ., Leipzig
  • 1925: H. Krahe and A. Theissen (eds.), St. Lambertus. Collegiate and parish church in Düsseldorf. A memorial book , with the participation of H. Rothäuser
  • 1927: 25 years of the Düsseldorf station mission. A home-sociological study , Düsseldorf
  • 1935: Under the pseudonym "Salvian" the novella Death in Obedience , published in the Silesian Bonifatiusvereinsblatt
  • 1936: Sequence transfer from HR to Die Viktorianer. Mystical writings , Vienna
  • 1937: Christian housefather doctrine , in: Werkruf , monthly newspaper for group work in the cath. Work people

Articles on the philosophy of history and stories in church newspapers in the dioceses of Berlin, Breslau, Paderborn. He used the abbreviations: "HR", "HR rh." and "Prof. R." In 1937 and 1938 around 65 depictions of Heiligenleben were published.

  • 1951: Death in obedience. A diaspora story , Leipzig (new edition from 1935)

Co-founder of the Düsseldorf Adult Education Center

Honors

  • 2000: The Catholic Church appointed Dr. Hans Karl Rosenberg accepted into the German martyrology of the 20th century as a witness of faith .
  • 2002: A dead end on Bonn's Joseph-Roth-Straße is named Hans-Rosenberg-Straße.

literature

  • KJ Schwalb: Resistance and persecution in Friesdorf 1933–1945 , in: Godesberger Heimatblätter 22, 1984.
  • Alexander Hesse: The Professors and Lecturers of the Prussian Pedagogical Academies (1926-1933) and Colleges for Teacher Training (1933-1941) , 1995, p. 623
  • P. Houllard-Rosenberg private archive.
  • Pia Rosenberg, Swimming in the Rhine , Rheinlandia Verlag, Siegburg 1997, ISBN 3-931509-31-1 .
  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 ; Volume I., pp. 395-397.
  • Helmut Moll , Martyrdom and Truth. Witnesses of Christ in the 20th Century Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2005, 6th edition 2017; ISBN 3-928273-74-4 , p. 142.
  • City archive Bonn, archive of the Godesberger Volkszeitung.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Moll: Martyrdom and Truth. Witnesses of Christ in the 20th century
  2. ↑ Helmut Moll: Witnesses for Christ. Part 1.
  3. ↑ Pia Rosenberg, "Swimming in the Rhine", p. 29
  4. ↑ Pia Rosenberg, "Swimming in the Rhine", p. 35
  5. ^ Hans-Rosenberg-Strasse in the Bonn street cadastre
personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Hans Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1942
Place of death bad Godesberg