Julius Baruch

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Julius Baruch (born September 7, 1892 in Gemünden (Hunsrück) , † February 12, 1945 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was a German wrestler and weightlifter.

Life

Julius Baruch was born as the first son of a Jewish merchant family residing in Bad Kreuznach at the latest when the second child was born. He was married to the Christian Klara Baruch. His brother Hermann (1896-1942) was also a wrestler and in 1924 European champion in wrestling, in the Greco-Roman style in the lightweight . Both brothers took part in the First World War. Julius was slightly wounded at the end of November 1916 as a member of the 2nd Company of Infantry Regiment No. 21 von Borke. After returning, they took part in the development of a weight training club, which they soon made national and international fame through their achievements. Julius achieved his first successes in 1920 at the German Weightlifting Championships in Stuttgart with a bronze medal. In 1924 he became European champion in Neunkirchen. 1925 team champion against the sports association Berlin-Ost. After these successes he got involved as a coach in his club. He was the owner of a taxi / car rental company. In 1933, as a Jew, he was banned from coaching and in 1943 a general ban on sports . Nevertheless, as a European champion, participant in World War II and married to a Christian, he was for a long time certain that he would not be persecuted. After the bombing raids on January 2, 1945 and the negative mood that followed, he was taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp and abused. He died in the camp before the death marches began when it was dissolved. His mother and sisters were previously deported to camps and murdered, and his brother was also murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 .

The city of Bad Kreuznach named Gebrüder-Baruch-Strasse after the brothers .

literature

  • Kerstin Zehmer: Between fame and persecution - Hermann and Julius Baruch, two Jewish athletes from Bad Kreuznach . Sachor, Bad Kreuznach, issue 17, 1/99

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to information in Persecution and Resistance in Rhineland-Palatinate 1933 - 1945 . Exhibition catalog. Published by the State Center for Political Education. Volume 1: Osthofen Concentration Camp Memorial. Mainz 2008
  2. ^ Loss list at genealogie.net from November 27, 1916
  3. ↑ 100 years of ASV / VfL Bad Kreuznach ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2018 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhl.argeringen.de

Remarks

  1. ↑ In some publications probably wrongly stated with 1894
personal data
SURNAME Baruch, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler and weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1945
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp