Hartmut Hosenfeld

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Hartmut Hosenfeld
Hartmut Hosenfeld (2020)

Hartmut Hosenfeld (born December 3, 1939) is a German homeland researcher who has made a special contribution to the Jewish heritage of the city of Attendorn . Until 2002 he was head of the Albert Schweitzer School.

The Mayor of Attendorn Christian Pospischil (left) and Hartmut Hosenfeld (2017)

Act

The “Jewish in Attendorn” initiative he founded caused a national and international sensation in 2018 with a campaign lasting several weeks called “Shalom Attendorn 2018” on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the 1938 November pogroms . Hartmut Hosenfeld is co-initiator of the “Julius Ursell Weg”, which opened in 2018, and is the first Jewish themed hiking trail in Germany.

In 2006 his book "Jewish in Attendorn: The History of the Former Jewish Community in Attendorn" was published. The second book by Hartmut Hosenfeld with the title "Gabriel, an unknown star from Attendorn" was published in 2013 and is a biography of the native Attendorn Jew Gabriel Stern (1913–1983), who in Israel was an award-winning journalist and assistant to the philosopher Martin Buber was active.

research

Through his research, Hartmut Hosenfeld has reconstructed numerous biographies of Jewish fellow citizens from Attendorn and preserved them for posterity. Among them, for example, the story of Anna Kahn, who, against much resistance, was the first girl ever to take her Abitur in Attendorn in 1929. Later she converted to Judaism and married Kurt Stern, a Jew from Attendorn. Together with him and her daughter, she fled the National Socialists to the USA, where she died in 2005. Or by Julius Ursell, who was responsible for the awarding of hiking trails in Attendorn as a cashier and road-keeper at SGV until the Nazis came to power in 1933 . Their stories and those of the Stern and Ursell families bear witness to Jewish life in Attendorn through Hartmut Hosenfeld's research to this day.

The story of Anna Kahn is now also part of the official city tours. In November 2018 the literature course at the Attendorner Rivius Gymnasium staged her life as a musical under the title “Nana”. According to history teacher Stefan Meier, the decisive factor was Hartmut Hosenfeld's work.

The Julius Ursell Weg, which opened on October 28th, is thematically based on the work of Hartmut Hosenfeld. The approximately ten kilometer long first Jewish themed hiking trail in Germany was designed as part of the "Shalom Attendorn 2018" project in memory of Julius Ursell.

Stumbling blocks

In 2006 a grandson of a former SA leader from Attendorn contacted Hartmut Hosenfeld from Berlin . He actually wanted to know something about the life of the Jews in Attendorn. He turned to the home nurse who recommended Hartmut Hosenfeld to him as an expert. The intensive discussions gave the impetus to lay stumbling blocks in Attendorn as well .

The laying of the stumbling blocks (there were 12 in 2006, 2 more stumbling blocks were added in 2008) was made possible through donations from parties, groups and private individuals. The city of Attendorn made the public areas available. Since the relocation, the annual cleaning of the stumbling blocks, led by Hartmut Hosenfeld, has been an integral part of the culture of remembrance in Attendorn.

Memorial stele in the Jewish cemetery

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the November pogroms, which in 1938 also caused a lot of suffering among the Jewish citizens in Attendorn, the Hanseatic city of Attendorn handed over a memorial stele in the Jewish cemetery on November 7, 2018. About 50 descendants of the Ursell family found their way to Attendorn that day to take part in the ceremony led by Hartmut Hosenfeld.

As part of the #RememberingFromHome #ShoahNames campaign, Hartmut Hosenfeld read the 18 names of the Attendorn people who fell victim to the Holocaust together with fellow campaigners at the memorial stele on April 21, the commemoration day of Yom Haschoa in Israel.

Guided tours through Jewish life

With the historic Jewish cemetery, the memorial plaque for the pogrom night in November 1938 and a total of 14 stumbling blocks in the city center, there are traces of Jewish life in Attendorn to this day. Hartmut Hosenfeld has been offering guided tours through these stations of Jewish life for many years, garnished with a lot of knowledge, exciting anecdotes, reflective moments and one or two Yiddish jokes. Hartmut Hosenfeld regularly offers guided tours of the Jewish cemetery for school classes.

Honors

  • 2016: Citizen Prize Winner of the Hanseatic City of Attendorn
  • 2019: Winner of the price against extremism and racism of the Olpe district
  • 2019: Winner of the home award of the Hanseatic City of Attendorn
  • 2019: Prize in the competition "Active for Democracy and Tolerance" of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance - Against Extremism and Violence (BfDT) for the initiative "Jüdisch in Attendorn" and "Shalom Attendorn 2018"

Publications

  • 2006: Jewish in Attendorn, Search, the history of the former Jewish community in Attendorn , Jewish life in the Olpe district, volume 4., 396 pages, Olpe district archive OCLC 76873997
  • 2013: Gabriel, an unknown star from Attendorn: Gerhard Gabriel Stern (1913–1983) , Jüdisches Leben im Kreis Olpe, Volume 5. Olpe: Der Landrat des Kreis Olpe, Kreisarchiv, 2013 OCLC 76873997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jüdisch in Attendorn , accessed on July 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Dillmann: From Himmelsberg to Maccabi. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. November 7, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Alexa Christ: "We all had tears in our eyes". In: travel. Die WELT, September 4, 2019, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Andrea Vollmert: Emotional dedication of the memorial stele at the Jewish cemetery in Attendorn. In: Sauerlandkurier. November 8, 2018, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Jenny Roger: "Remembering the Jews of Attendorn". In: The Canadian Jewish News. December 6, 2018, accessed December 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Hartmut Hosenfeld: Gabriel, an unknown star from Attendorn . In: District Olpe (ed.): Jewish life in the district of Olpe . tape 5 , 2013, ISBN 978-3-9802697-9-7 , pp. 164 .
  7. ^ Hartmut Hosenfeld: Jewish in Attendorn . In: District Olpe (ed.): Jewish life in the district of Olpe . tape 4 , 2006, ISBN 978-3-9802697-6-6 , pp. 396 .
  8. ↑ Hanseatic City of Attendorn: Citizen Prize of the Hanseatic City of Attendorn for Hartmut Hosenfeld. In: Homepage of the Hanseatic City of Attendorn. May 10, 2017, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Jewish in Attendorn. In: Homepage of the "Jüdisch in Attendorn" initiative. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Award "No place for extremism and racism". In: Homepage "Jewish in Attendorn". Initiative "Jewish in Attendorn", October 8, 2019, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  11. ↑ The Hanseatic City of Attendorn's first Heimat Prize goes to the “Jewish in Attendorn” initiative. In: Homepage of the Hanseatic City of Attendorn. December 12, 2019, accessed July 9, 2020 .
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  14. ↑ The Julius Ursell Way. In: Homepage of the "Jüdisch in Attendorn" initiative. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  15. ↑ https://www.lokalplus.nrw/nachrichten/kultur-attendorn/rivianer-haben-die-geschichte-von-nana-30077
  16. ↑ https://www.attendorn.de/index.php?object=tx,2422.5&ModID=255&FID=2422.19247.1
  17. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Yig6G7kCY
  18. ↑ https://www.lokalplus.nrw/nachrichten/völkeres-attendorn/schueler-der-hanseschule-pflegten-juedischen-friedhof-in-attendorn-34825
  19. ↑ https://www.buendnis-toleranz.de/arbeitsfelder/anlaufstelle/initiativen/175252/shalom-attendorn-2018
personal data
SURNAME Hosenfeld, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1939 or 1940