Jacob Jacobson

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Jacob Jacobson (born November 27, 1888 in Schrimm , Posen province; † May 31, 1968 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German-Jewish historian and expert on Jewish genealogy , archivist and Holocaust survivor .

Live and act

Jacobson, son of the rabbi Moses Jacobson, graduated from the Talmud school in Hamburg and the Abitur at the Gymnasium in Gnesen and studied at the universities of Breslau , Munich , Berlin and Marburg . He received his doctorate and passed the examination for teaching qualification in higher schools. Jacobson took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1919 and achieved the military rank of non-commissioned officer. Because of two serious wounds, he received the Wound Badge and was also awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. Jacobson was married to Henriette, nee Goldschmidt (* 1884); the couple had a child.

From 1920 to 1939 Jacobson was in charge of the entire archive of German Jews and, after the National Socialists came to power, he was particularly concerned with securing Jewish archive material. Information on the so-called Aryan evidence was also provided in the general archive . After the November pogroms , Jacobson was unable to emigrate because, as a specialist in Jewish genealogy, he was needed to cooperate with the Reichssippenamt . In May 1943 Jacobson was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on May 19, 1943. There, as a so-called “celebrity”, he continued to work on sources for the Central Office for Jewish Civil Registration. At the beginning of May 1945 Jacobson was liberated in Theresienstadt and emigrated to London in 1945 . There he became a member of the Leo Baeck Institute . In 1965 he wrote the fragments 1939–1945 . He died in Bad Neuenahr in May 1968.

Fonts

  • Ed. The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809–1851. Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin . Source works, Volume 1. de Gruyter Berlin, 1962
  • Ed. Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759–1813. Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin . Source works, Volume 4. de Gruyter, Berlin 1968
  • Jewish weddings in Berlin 1723–1759 . Jastrow, Berlin 1938
  • On the history of the Jews in Rogasen . Ehrlich, Berlin 1935

literature

  • Jacobson, Jacob. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 13: Jaco-Kerr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22693-4 , pp. 6-9.
  • Fred Grubel (Ed.): Leo Baeck Institute New York. Catalog of the Archival Collections. , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 978-3-16-145597-1
  • Alexandra Przyrembel : "Rassenschande" - Purity Myth and Extermination Legitimation in National Socialism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-525-35188-7
  • Jennifer Herold: Jacob Jacobson, the best genealogist of his time. Jewish miniatures, 239th Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2019 (with 7 illustrations)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fred Grubel (Ed.): Leo Baeck Institute New York. Catalog of the Archival Collections. , P. 66
  2. ^ A b Jacobson, Jacob Das Theresienstadt-Lexikon
  3. ↑ Alexandra Przyrembel: "Rassenschande" - Purity Myth and Extermination Legitimation in National Socialism , Göttingen 2003, p. 108f.
  4. ↑ http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=389263
personal data
SURNAME Jacobson, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, archivist and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schrimm
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1968
Place of death Bad Neuenahr