Hermann Stern (Nazi victim)

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Hermann Stern (born February 14, 1866 in Creglingen ; † March 25, 1933 there ) was the first victim of the Creglingen pogrom and, according to Horst F. Rupp, the first victim of the systematic persecution of Jews during the Nazi era in Germany.

Stern was a horse and real estate dealer and chairman of the supervisory board of the agricultural and commercial bank in Creglingen. He belonged to the Jewish community of Creglingen, which was rounded up on March 25, 1933 by an SA standard under the direction of Fritz Klein and police forces, partly from church services and partly from private houses, and was one of sixteen men who were in the town hall with clubs and rods were beaten. He was particularly brutally mistreated as a result of an attempt to escape. Medical help was only called after Klein's squad with four prisoners had withdrawn. Hermann Stern succumbed to his injuries on the same day. He was buried in the Creglingen Jewish cemetery , where his gravestone has been preserved to this day. His son Emil was the last Jew to leave Creglingen in 1939 after imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp .

Arnold Rosenfeld, who had also been ill-treated by the SA, died two days after the attack. An attempt to name the local secondary school after Stern and Rosenfeld failed. In Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Die Geschwister Oppenheim the attack on the Jewish community of Creglingen is described. The perpetrator Fritz Klein is named there by plain name, Hermann Stern became Mr. Berg.

Stern's prayer desk from the Creglingen synagogue as well as an original photograph of Stern's that his granddaughter brought along can be seen in the Jewish Museum Creglingen. The building in which this museum is located today also once belonged to Hermann Stern.

Web links

literature

  • Hartwig Behr, Horst F. Rupp: From life and death. Jews in Creglingen. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1834-6 . (2nd edition 2001, ISBN 3-8260-2226-2 .)
  • Horst F. Rupp: Controversial: Jewish museums in Germany. Controversies and Concepts - The Creglingen Example. In: THEN. The magazine for history and culture. Volume 34, Issue 4, 2002, p. 43.
  • Horst F. Rupp, Hartwig Behr: An illusion bursts. The Creglinger Murders of Jews.  In: THEN. The magazine for history and culture. Volume 34, Issue 5, 2002, pp. 59-62.
  • Horst F. Rupp: Dispute about the Jewish Museum. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2966-6 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the nearby Künzelsau , Max Ledermann , cloth merchant and head of the Jewish community , died on March 21 after being mistreated by the SA under Klein's command.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The end of the Jewish community Creglingen. at alt-rothenburg.de
  2. ↑ State Archive Ludwigsburg EL 228 II b No. 59560-59561 ( photos from 1989)
  3. ↑ Hartwig Behr, Horst F. Rupp: From living and dying. Jews in Creglingen. 1999, p. 171 f.
  4. ^ Jewish Museum Creglingen at alemannia-judaica.de
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Victim of the Creglingen pogrom, is considered to be the first victim of systematic persecution of Jews during the Nazi era
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Creglingen
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1933
Place of death Creglingen