Ivar Buterfas

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Ivar Buterfas-Frankenthal (born January 16, 1933 in Hamburg , as Ivar Buterfas ) is a German entrepreneur , author , Holocaust survivor and boxing organizer .

Life

Buterfas was born the son of artists and grew up in Hamburg. His mother was Christian and his father was Jewish . His grandparents were entrepreneurs in the tobacco industry in Dresden .

Buterfas' father Felix was sent to the Esterwegen concentration camp in 1934 . Shortly after starting school in 1938, Buterfas had to leave school because he was “ half-Jewish ”. The family was housed in a " Jewish house " by the National Socialists , and during the Second World War Ivar Buterfas was injured when an explosive device detonated near the house. Thanks to the help of a friend of the family who worked for the Gestapo , Buterfas' mother and her children managed to escape to Tucheler Heide . When the family's stay there was exposed, they fled again, went back to Hamburg and lived there first in an allotment house, then in the basement of a building destroyed by a bombing. Buterfas was stripped of his German citizenship by the National Socialists, he was henceforth stateless and then received an alien passport, which is why he had to report to the authorities regularly. Buterfas later called this "the second discrimination I have experienced after the Star of David". In 1964 he regained German citizenship. In August 2015 he and his wife Dagmar celebrated a diamond wedding. In March 2016, in addition to the surname Buterfas, he took his wife's name Frankenthal.

Buterfas worked as a tiler and novelty seller. Together with his wife he founded the company "Buterfas & Buterfas" in 1971, which mainly carried out facade renovations.

Buterfas, who was an amateur boxer himself and Max Schmeling was one of his friends, organized professional boxing matches ; for example, in October 1976 he held matches with Leo Kakolewicz , Karsten Honhold , Jörg Eipel , Kurt Lüdecke , Hartmut Sasse and Lothar in a tent on the Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg Evening .

Buterfas was the federal chairman of the German Working Group for Building Preservation and Building Renewal and the initiator of the Hamburg support group " Save the Nikolaikirche " founded in 1987 . In the latter position, he was involved in the acquisition of donations in the tens of millions. Butterfas also persuaded around 25,000 personalities to sign the "Golden Book of St. Nikolai", including Helmut Schmidt , Helmut Kohl , Gerhard Schröder , Richard von Weizsäcker , Johannes Rau , Michail Gorbatschow and Pope Johannes Paul II. In November 2005, Buterfas joined as chairman of the association after he had admitted that he had sold lots worth 12,000 euros to an entrepreneur in a raffle for the benefit of the support group, including 4,000 tickets in a series, all of which included prizes. In this way he wanted to secure the financing of an elevator for the memorial. Buterfas later described his approach as "the stupidest idiot thing I could ever do".

He campaigned for a memorial for the prisoner and penal camp Sandbostel and won the then Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel as a supporter.

In 1995 he published the book "Sunny Goj", in which he told his life story, in July 2007 the sequel appeared with "Courage is not carelessness - I had to close a gap". In more than 1500 lectures in schools and universities in Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and Switzerland, Buterfas passed on what he had experienced during his life to the youth. He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit , the World Peace Prize in 1995 , the Golden City Hall Man of the City of Vienna in 2002 and the European Human Rights Medal in 2003 and the “Silver Medal for Loyal Work in the Service of the People” from the City of Hamburg. He was also awarded the medal for human rights of the city of Graz, and in 2014 he received honorary citizenship of the community of Bendestorf . Its mayor, Hans-Peter Brink, described him as "a great reminder against National Socialism".

In 2006, Buterfas was diagnosed with colon cancer . He caused a stir in 2010 with a criminal complaint against the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank . Through the brokerage of the company, he had invested money in the Lehman Brothers bank , which Buterfas-Frankenthal lost around 80,000 euros when it went bankrupt.

In view of the murder of CDU politician Walter Lübcke , the attempted attack on a synagogue in Halle (Saale) and death threats against politicians, Buterfas warned in 2019 that the circumstances reminded him of 1933.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Frank Keil: One against the bank. In: juedische-allgemeine.de. February 3, 2010, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Katja Iken: Holocaust survivor Ivar Buterfas: "The pigs stole my childhood" . In: Spiegel Online . December 11, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 3, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c "We only come in a double pack!" - Bendestorf's honorary citizen Ivar Buterfas celebrated now with his Dagmar diamond wedding. In: Kreiszeitung-wochenblatt.de. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ WORLD: People: Change of name out of love for his wife . March 4, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed January 3, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b c https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/organisation/Presse/Unijournal/2000-1.pdf
  6. ↑ Alone against the bank. In: Hinz & Kunzt. January 17, 2011, accessed on January 3, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1976/pdf/19761004.pdf/ASV_HAB_19761004_HA_015.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2011/pdf/20110806.pdf/HAHA20110806lf008.pdf
  9. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2002/pdf/20021221.pdf/HAHA20021221lf017.pdf
  10. ↑ Kristina Allgöwer: It wasn't love . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 19, 2005, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 32 ( taz.de [accessed on January 3, 2020]).
  11. ↑ a b c d Welcome to my homepage. In: ivar-buterfas.de. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Forgive yes, never forget: Ivar Buterfas-Frankenthal spoke to around 400 students in the Luther Church. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Golden Town Hall Man for Ivar Buterfas. In: wien.gv.at. December 3, 2002, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  14. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Photo gallery - image 21 - Nazi contemporary witness Ivar Buterfas-Frankenthal: Fighters against the right. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  15. ↑ HONOR FOR COMMITTED CONTEMPORARY WITNESSES. In: berlin.de. December 3, 2013, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  16. ↑ HAMBURG: Ivar Buterfas is back. March 26, 2010, accessed on January 3, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Buterfas, Ivar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buterfas-Frankenthal, Ivar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, author, Holocaust survivor, boxing organizer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg