Herbert Caro

Herbert Moritz Caro (born October 16, 1906 in Berlin ; † March 23, 1991 in Porto Alegre ) was a German lawyer , translator and table tennis player .

Life in Germany and in exile

Caro worked as a probationary judge (“judge assessor”) and lawyer at the regional court in Berlin , where in 1933 his license was withdrawn due to his Jewish origin with the law on admission to the bar. Since he was no longer allowed to practice his profession, Caro went to France in the same year. He began studying Romance languages at the University of Dijon . He made his living by giving tennis and German lessons. When the situation for the German refugees in France worsened, Caro decided to look for another country of asylum. In 1934 he returned to Germany, married Nina Zabludowski, a Jewish woman from Poland, and began to make arrangements to move on to Brazil. They arrived in Porto Alegre in May 1935 . Together with other refugees , including Fritz olive , a famous librettist of opera , who under the pseudonym Rideamus wrote Caro founded the Jewish aid organization Sociedade Israelita do Brasil (Israelite congregation of Brazil), helped the many refugees, their endangered in Europe family members to Brazil bring. He himself told Izabela Kestler in an interview:

“We sent our women to the Foreign Ministry in Rio de Janeiro. Women can cry. And we hoped that this would soften the cold hearts of the officials. "

Literary activity

Herbert Moritz Caro was probably the best-known translator for German literature in Brazil. He worked for ten years in Porto Alegre at the Globo publishing house as a translator and editor and translated, among others, Thomas Mann , Emil Ludwig , Oskar von Wertheimer , Hermann Hesse and Elias Canetti into Portuguese . In addition, he wrote regularly for the newspaper O Correio do Povo , gave lectures on German-speaking authors in the German-Brazilian Cultural Institute / Porto Alegre, wrote essays on art and literature for Brazilian newspapers and magazines as well as the Portuguese-German and Portuguese-Latin lexicons. A collection of his essays entitled Balcão de Livraria ( Book Table ) was published by the Brazilian Ministry of Education in 1960.

Athletic career

Caro was appointed to international matches 16 times between 1928 and 1932. He took part in 5 world championships . Caro was an attacking player with an equally strong back and forehand. Around 1930 he belonged to the club TC Borussia 1902 Berlin.

Caro took over the post of sports warden at the German Table Tennis Association , which was based in Berlin, from 1931 to 1933 as the successor to FW Portner. When the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933 , they called on all sports associations to “ Aryanise ”. Thereupon all five members of the DTTB board wanted to resign together because Caro and treasurer Fritz Zinn were not Aryan . Caro prevented the closed resignation and resigned "voluntarily" from the board.

In France he joined the Club Dijon. In Avignon he still played in a tournament against Alex Ehrlich, among others . Then he ended his active career.

Sporting successes

Caro took part in the following table tennis world championships:

• 1928 in Stockholm: 7th place with men's team
• 1929 in Budapest: 6th place with men's team
• 1930 in Berlin: 7th place with men's team
• 1932 in Prague: 5th place with men's team
• 1933 in Baden / Vienna: only single

In 1930 he was ranked 3rd in the German ranking.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	World Championship	1933	to bathe	AUT	Agony	no participants	no participants
GER	World Championship	1932	Prague	TCH	last 128	Scratched	no participants	5
GER	World Championship	1930	Berlin	FRG	last 16	last 16	no participants	7th
GER	World Championship	1929	Budapest	HUN	Agony	last 32	Scratched	6th
GER	World Championship	1928	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	last 16	no participants	7th

Works

• Balcão de livraria. Ministério da Educação, Rio de Janeiro 1960.

literature

• Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler : The Exile Literature and the Exile of German-Language Writers and Publicists in Brazil Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-631-45160-1 .
• Herbert Caro Porto Alegre (UNIDADE EDITORIAL) 1995
• A sign of life from Dr Herbert Caro. In: DTS . 1966/12, p. 43.
• Anita Brumer, Ieda Gutfreind: Nina Caro, uma mulher de destaque. 2007 (Portuguese) online (accessed May 1, 2012) (PDF file; 117 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1931/33, p. 824.
2. ↑ Dr. rer. techn. Nina Zabludowski , born March 23, 1906 in Białystok ; † 1993 in Rio de Janeiro In: Hans-Harald Müller, Mirko Nottscheid: Science without a university, research without a state: The Berlin Society for German Literature (1888–1938). de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-026210-0 , p. 476. (accessed on May 1, 2012)
3. ↑ Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1930/8, p. 239.
4. ↑ Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1931/33, pp. 823-824.
5. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 4, 2011)