Julius Ambrunn

Julius Ambrunn , also Jonas Ambrunn (born November 22, 1872 in Bad Neuhaus ad S .; died after January 23, 1942 in or near Riga , Latvia) businessman, was the last chairman of the Jewish synagogue community in Dorsten, which was destroyed by the Nazis (until 1942 ). Julius Ambrunn was on the board of the Dorsten synagogue community until 1932 . On January 23, 1942, the family and others were deported by the government agencies of the NSDAP apparatus to Riga , where their lives and traces were destroyed by the alleged perpetrators. In the Dorsten registration office there is the note: "All three deregistered on January 23, 1942 after unknown".

Life

He was married to Rosalie A., nee Rosalie Stegerhoff, born on November 20, 1871 in Soest. On March 8, 1912, both came to Dorsten. On February 3, 1912, their son Kurt A. was born, who became a textile merchant after attending high schools in Dorsten and Gladbeck.

In 1935 the Ambrunn family applied to emigrate to America, but the permit was not granted.

Commemoration

In 1988 the city of Dorsten named a street after Julius Ambrunn. a. the Jewish Museum Westphalia opened in 1992 is located.

There are three stumbling blocks in front of the house at Lippestraße 41, whose sponsorship was taken over by students from the local Matthäusschule (Alt-Wulfen).

See also

On the function of a main synagogue community in Jewish community life, one can read the article about the Reken Jewish community in the Borken synagogue community, which existed around the same time .

literature

• Research group regional history: Jews in Dorsten and in the glory Lembeck. On the history of the Jewish community and the main synagogue community of Dorsten in the Recklinghausen district. A documentation of the research group regional history / Dorsten under the swastika. Dorsten, 1989.

Web links

• Page at stolpersteine-dorsten.de (with illus . Of the stolperstein plaques )
• Paul Feige: The memory: Two encounters with Julius Ambrunn - "Paul, you mustn't talk to me!" Published on May 28, 2012 on the website dorsten-unterm-hakenkreuz.de and in Wolf Stegmann, Dirk Hartwich (ed.) : Dorsten under the swastika - The Jewish community. Volume 1, published 1983.
• Wolf Stegmann: The small Jewish community from 1933 to 1942 - their life was the last one that was taken from them. Published on May 28, 2012 on the website dorsten-unterm-hakenkreuz.de (His commercial building and houses in the neighborhood are mentioned.)
• Wolf Stegmann: Dorstener Hitlerjugend, SA and SS devastated ... The Jewish community center (ground floor of the synagogue in Wiesenstrasse) served the city administration from 1938 until the deportation as a "Jewish house" for the forced accommodation of Jews who were evicted from their homes. City dwellers; at times also for the Ambrunn family. (Also on the whereabouts of a memorial plaque between 1997 and 2008) In: dorsten-transparent.de of November 8, 2013.
• Collection of old street views from Dorsten, u. a. with different views of Lippestrasse at that time; also with J. Ambrunn's house and china shop. The old streets of Dorsten. Günter Grau