Joseph Bondi

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Joseph Bondi
Grave of Joseph Bondi in the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden
Memorandum and thanksgiving for community leader Joseph Bondi, 1893

Joseph Bondi (born June 23, 1818 in Dresden ; died June 11, 1897 there ) was a German lawyer, banker, community leader and royal Saxon commercial councilor.

Live and act

After fleeing Prague in 1746, Bondi's family settled in Dresden, where they soon became one of the most influential families in the local Jewish community. Simon Isaac Bondi (1711–1773) founded the Bondi bank in Dresden in 1755, which initially worked in the exchange business. The members of the Bondi family exercised many voluntary community functions and supported the common good with foundations and donations, among other things. Among other things, they financed the acquisition of the Old Jewish Cemetery in 1751 and, almost 100 years later, the construction of the Old Dresden Synagogue .

Joseph Bondi was born in Dresden in 1818 as one of four children of Fanny Vögle and Jomtow Bondi and was one of the first Jewish students to attend the Kreuzschule . He then studied law in Leipzig from 1839 . Due to an eye condition that led to complete blindness in one eye, he had to break off his studies in 1841. He completed an apprenticeship from 1845 to 1853 at Wilhelm Schie's (1805–1861) bank .

Bondi received Dresden citizenship in 1853 and in the same year founded his own bank, which was later attached to the Bondi bank and existed under the co-ownership of Ignatz Maron (1842-1922) under the name Bankhaus Bondi & Maron until 1936 and in 1937 by Deutsche Bank Was "Aryanized". He was also active on the Board of Directors and headed its arbitration tribunal. In 1838 he was appointed one of the eight comissars by the Elders. After the death of Bernhard Beer , he was elected mayor of the community in 1861 and did not step down after numerous re-elections until 1893.

Bondi co-founded the Association of Homeless Women and represented the Alliance Israelite Universelle . In 1886 he established the Sidonie Foundation, which financed scholarships. In 1891 he was appointed to the Royal Saxon Council of Commerce. He died of pneumonia in Dresden at the age of 76 and was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden Johannstadt.

Bondi was married twice. His marriage to Auguste Schie, daughter of the banker Wilhelm Schie, in 1846 resulted in two sons who died prematurely and the daughter Sidonie Bondi. His marriage to Julie Gottschalk in 1859 resulted in two daughters and two sons, including Felix Bondi (1860-1934), who was active as a lawyer.

Appreciation

The Joseph Bondi house in the Tharandt forest near Sachsenhof is named after Joseph Bondi . The children's home built by the non-profit foundation of Dresden at the end of the 19th century was renamed the Freital Children's Home during the National Socialist era . Until the fall of the Wall, the "Hermann Duncker" Dresden-Klingenberg trade union school of the FDGB was housed in the Joseph Bondi House . From 2006 to 2009, the now vacant building was used as a home for asylum seekers.

literature

  • The Bondi family . In: Frank Thiele et al .: Old Jewish cemetery in Dresden Neustadt . Hille, Dresden 2000, pp. 101-123.
  • Joseph Bondi . In: Frank Thiele (Hrsg.): New Jewish cemetery in the Dresden Johannstadt . Hille, Dresden 2004, pp. 92-94.
  • Simone Lässig: Bondi family . In: Jewish Community of Dresden, State Capital Dresden (Ed.): Once & Now. On the history of the Dresden synagogue and its community . ddp goldenbogen, Dresden 2001, pp. 128-131.
  • Kerstin Hagemeyer (ed.): Jewish life in Dresden. Exhibition on the occasion of the consecration of the new Dresden synagogue on November 9, 2001 . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-910005-27-6 , p. 138.

Web links

Commons : Joseph Bondi  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Bondi . In: Frank Thiele (Hrsg.): New Jewish cemetery in the Dresden Johannstadt . Hille, Dresden 2004, p. 92.
  2. ↑ Joseph Bondi . In: Frank Thiele (Hrsg.): New Jewish cemetery in the Dresden Johannstadt . Hille, Dresden 2004, p. 93 (grave photo).
personal data
SURNAME Bondi, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, banker and long-time head of the Jewish community in Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1897
Place of death Dresden