Julius Weber (journalist)

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Julius Weber (* 1888 in Lemberg ; † 1942 in the Brazlaw camp ) was a German-speaking journalist from Bukovina and the founder of the Czernowitzer Morgenblatt .

Life

Weber was born in 1888 into a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia, but soon moved to the capital of Bukovina, Chernivtsi . Weber worked there as a journalist.

In May 1918, shortly before the end of World War I and the annexation of Bukovina to Romania , he and Elias Eliahu Weinstein founded the Czernowitzer Morgenblatt, soon one of the largest German-language newspapers in Bukowina. Alfred Margul-Sperber as well as Rose Ausländer and Mayer Ebner wrote for the “Morgenblatt” at times .

Weber remained its editor-in-chief until the paper was discontinued. In the 1920s and 1930s he was a member of numerous public associations in Czernowitz and was also active in local politics. For a short time he chaired the “Association of Bourgeois Traders” and ran for the Jewish Cultural Council elections. He was particularly committed to the rights of the Jewish and German-speaking minority in Romania and was an opponent of the Romanization policy pursued at the time .

In 1941 Weber, like most of the Jews of Bukovina, was deported to the Romanian occupied area of ​​Transnistria . There he died in Brazlaw in early 1942.

Fonts

  • Julius Weber, The Russian Days in Chernivtsi. Events of the first and second Russian invasions , E. Kanarski, Chernivtsi, 1915.

literature

  • Markus Winkler (ed.): Press landscape in Bukowina and the neighboring regions: actors, content, events (1900-1945). IKGS, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811694-9-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Summary of the dissertation “Czernowitzer Morgenblatt. A monograph “ In: museumoffamilyhistory.com
  2. ↑ Hartmut Merkt: Poetry in isolation. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999, ISBN 9783447041744 , p. 44. Limited preview in the Google book search
  3. ^ Conference report from April 2008
  4. ↑ Julius Weber: The Russians days in Czernowitz (Open Library). In: openlibrary.org. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bukovinian German-speaking journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Brazlaw camp