Heinz Salomon

Heinz Salomon (born May 18, 1900 in Ribnitz , † October 18, 1969 in Kiel ) was a German politician ( SPD ). He was brought to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the last transport with Jews from Schleswig-Holstein on February 14, 1945, and from there he was the first Jew to return to the city of Kiel after the Second World War .

Life

Salomon enrolled in May 1919 to study dentistry at the University of Rostock , but then embarked on a commercial career. In 1946 he was a member of the first appointed Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein (People's Education Committee) and, from 1947, of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone . In 1950, as part of his campaign for compensation for the Jews, he was involved in transferring claims to Jewish property in the British zone that were not claimed by owners or heirs to the Jewish Trust Corporation . In 1956 he campaigned for the preservation of the Association of Jewish Communities in Northwest Germany in order to have a better negotiating position for further negotiations on reparations to the communities.

Honors

Heinz Salomon was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, by the Federal President in 1960 .

Works

• Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone of Germany, Lübeck Municipal Department, with Heinz Salomon, Jewish Welfare Schleswig-Holstein: Correspondence from Norbert Wollheim , Kiel, 1946–1948

literature

• Sigrun Jochims-Bozic: You are the first Jew to return to Kiel: Heinz Salomon, 1900 - 1969. In: Sabine Hering (Ed.): Jüdische Wohlfahrt im Spiegel von Biographien. Fachhochschulverlag, Frankfurt / Main 2006, ISBN 3-936065-80-2 , pages 395-403.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Paul : "Re .: Evacuation of Jews". The Gestapo as the regional central institution for the persecution of the Jews. In: Gerhard Paul, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (ed.): Menora and swastika. On the history of the Jews in and from Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck and Altona (1918-1998). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-06149-2 , pp. 491-520, here p. 517.
2. ^ Sigrun Jochims-Bozic: You are the first Jew to return to Kiel: Heinz Salomon, 1900-1969. In: Jüdische Wohlfahrt im Spiegel von Biographien, Frankfurt / Main: Fachhochschulverlag 2006, pages 395-403.
3. ↑ See the entry of Heinz Salomon's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
4. ↑ Anke Quast: After the Liberation. Jewish communities in Lower Saxony since 1945 - the example of Hanover. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-447-1 , page 172. Restricted preview in the Google book search
5. ↑ Anke Quast: After the Liberation. Jewish communities in Lower Saxony since 1945 - the example of Hanover. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-447-1 , page 356.
6. ↑ Anke Quast: After the Liberation. Jewish communities in Lower Saxony since 1945 - the example of Hanover. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-447-1 , page 205.
7. ^ Gerhard Paul: "We have been liberated but we are not free." Jewish 'Displaced Persons' and other Holocaust survivors (1945-1951). In: Gerhard Paul, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (ed.): Menora and swastika. On the history of the Jews in and from Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck and Altona (1918-1998). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-06149-2 , pp. 657-671, here p. 670.
8. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten of October 21, 1969.
9. ↑ Correspondence in the holdings of the Central Archive for Research into the History of Jews in Germany ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Heinz Salomon in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein