Helmut Aris
Helmut Aris (born May 8, 1908 in Dresden ; † November 22, 1987 ibid) was President of the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR .
Life
Aris was born in Dresden- Striesen as the son of the metal goods manufacturer Julius Aris from East Prussia and his wife Recha Aris born from Hesse. Stone born. After attending the König-Georg-Gymnasium, he began an apprenticeship as a textile merchant at Hirsch & Co. in 1925 and worked there as an employee until 1929. His children Heinz-Joachim and Renate emerged from his marriage to Susanne Reinfeld in 1933 . In November 1938, Aris was arrested but released because of his Christian wife. After a period of unemployment, he had to do forced labor from 1940 to 1945 . His father died in Dresden in 1940, his mother was deported to Riga in 1942 and murdered there. His deportation, scheduled for February 16, 1945, did not take place because of the bombing of Dresden .
Aris joined the SPD in 1945 , which became part of the SED in 1946 with the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . He initially worked as a managing director in various industrial companies and was administrative director at the Institute for Chemical Plants in Dresden until 1965 . He was one of the first members of the re-established Jewish community in Dresden and was elected chairman of the Dresden Jewish community in 1953 to succeed Leon Löwenkopf and Hans Ogrodek . In 1952 he was a co-founder of the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR; From 1954 to 1956 he was an unofficial employee of "IM Lanus" at the MfS . From 1958 to 1962 he was Vice President, from June 1962, as successor to Hermann Baden, President of the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR. Aris was a member of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front from 1962 to 1987 . He was also a member of the GDR Committee for the Decade of Struggle Against Racism , the central management of the Committee of Anti-Fascist Resistance Fighters , the Presidium of the League for the United Nations and the Presidium of the Peace Council of the GDR .
Aris was awarded the GDR Medal of Merit in 1964 , the Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal of the National Front in 1969 , the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1978 and the Patriotic Medal of Merit in 1983 and the German Peace Medal.
Helmut Aris died on November 22, 1987 in Dresden and was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery.
literature
- Jan Wielgohs, Bernd-Rainer Barth : Aris, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aris, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, President of the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1987 |
| Place of death | Dresden |