Jochanan Ginat

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Jochanan Ginat (born as Hans Gärtner January 2, 1908 in Berlin ; died February 21, 1979 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli educator.

Life

Hans Gärtner was the son of the businessman Karl Gärtner and Hanna Apt (1881–1952). His father died in 1914, and from then on Hanna Gärtner intensified the family relationships with her sister Charlotte, Walter Ledermann's mother . Gärtner was active in the Jewish youth movement. He studied history at the University of Hamburg and began the teaching traineeship at the Lichtwarkschule in 1931 ; he had his second year at the Scharfenbergschule in Berlin. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was only allowed to teach at Jewish schools and in 1933 became a teacher and later director at the Berlin Theodor Herzl School . Gärtner emigrated to Palestine in 1938 , where he was head of the Ludwig Tietz School in Kibbutz Jagur until 1946 . He then had a management position in the youth aliyah . Ginat was director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem from 1970 to 1978 .

Ginat married the painter Judith Yellin (1923–2002) in 1951 and they had two children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Educational problems of the Jewish school during the Nazi era , in: Bulletin of the Leo Baeck Institute, 1. Jg., 1957/58, No. 213, pp. 83–86
  • Problems of the Jewish school during the Hitler years, with special consideration of the Theodor-Herzl-School in Berlin , in: Robert Weltsch (Hrsg.): Deutsches Judentum. Rise and Crisis. Design, ideas, works . Stuttgart 1963, pp. 326-352
  • Kurt Blumenfeld : In the struggle for Zionism, letters from 5 decades . Edited by Miriam Sambursky and Jochanan Ginat. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1976 ISBN 978-3-421-01770-3

literature

  • Ginat, Yochanan , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 114
  • Ginat, Yochanan in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 377
  • Heinrich Scheel : A Jewish teacher to his former student. Letters of Hans Gaertner from the years 1946–1950 , in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte , Vol. 43, No. 1 (1991), pp. 18-29
  • Jochanan Ginat to the memory, in: Mitteilungsblatt des Irgun Olej Merkas Europa (he), April 11, 1979, p. 18

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Ledermann: Encounters of a Mathematician , at the University of St Andrews
  2. ^ Judith Yellin Ginat , website
personal data
SURNAME Ginat, Jochanan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ginat, Yochanan; Gärtner, Hans (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1979
Place of death Jerusalem