Hermann Südfeld

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Hermann Südfeld (born April 3, 1879 - † June 6, 1950 ) was a German farmer . He was posthumously because of the 1965 rescue of Jews as a Righteous Among the Nations award.

Life

Hermann Südfeld was a farmer in Südkirchen on the farm of the same name ( 51 ° 42 ′  N , 7 ° 32 ′  E ). The family was Roman Catholic . He was married to Franziska Niehoff (1885–1950).

In 1944, daughter Maria hid the Jewish woman Marga Spiegel and her daughter Karin (* 1938) several times on the farm of her parents , whereby they often had to change hiding places and also found accommodation with other farming families in the Münsterland . They had the code name "Krone". Marga Spiegel suspected that Maria had told her mother about the knowledge of the father, she does not write anything.

Marga Spiegel and her husband Siegmund, who had also survived the Holocaust , made an early effort to ensure that the merits of their rescuers were recognized.

Hermann Südfeld was named “Righteous Among the Nations” by the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem in 1965. At the same time, other farmers who had helped the family received this award. These were Heinrich Aschoff , Hubert Pentrop , Heinrich Silkenbömer and Bernhard Sickmann .

Trivia

Hermann Südfeld is run by Yad Vashem as "Bernhard Südfeld". But he was baptized as Hermann Antonius, married as Hermann and was named by Marga Spiegel in her book "Hermann Südfeld".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Righteous Among the Nations Honored by Yad Vashem. Yad Vashem , accessed June 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ Marga Spiegel: Savior in the night. How a Jewish family survived in a hiding place in Münsterland (= history and life of the Jews in Westphalia. Volume 3). Edited and commented by Diethard Aschoff . 7th edition. Lit Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-3595-8 , p. 79 ff.
  3. ↑ Baptism entry Südkirchen. In: matricula-online.eu, accessed on June 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ Marriage entry in Olfen. In: matricula-online.eu, accessed on June 17, 2020.
  5. ↑ Marga Spiegel: Savior in the night. How a Jewish family survived in a hiding place in Münsterland (= history and life of the Jews in Westphalia. Volume 3). Edited and commented by Diethard Aschoff . 7th edition. Lit Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-3595-8 , p. 178.
personal data
SURNAME Südfeld, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1879
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1950