Karl Adler (musicologist)

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Karl Adler (born January 25, 1890 in Buttenhausen near Münsingen , Kingdom of Württemberg ; died 1973 in Leonia , New Jersey ) was a Jewish musicologist . He was a professor during the Weimar Republic and in the United States .

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Karl Adler was the oldest of Louis and Mathilde Adler's three children.

Adler was one of the most important personalities in the Stuttgart music world of the Weimar Republic. In 1919 he was appointed professor at the New Conservatory for Music in Stuttgart , and in 1921 he became its director.

Stuttgart Jewish Art Association 1935

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was released as a conductor and teacher. Adler was heavily involved in Jewish cultural life in Württemberg, especially at the Stuttgart Jewish Lehrhaus founded by Martin Buber and in the Stuttgart Jewish Art Community. Adler headed the "Central Office for Jewish Associations and Events". This "central office" was under the supervision of the Gestapo even before the November pogrom of 1938 and was renamed "Mittelstelle" in April 1939. The facility under this name was a specialty in Württemberg. Within this Jewish center, Adler helped many Jews to emigrate from Germany to the United States and the Middle East. In 1941 he himself managed to emigrate to the United States, where he was appointed professor of music at Yeshiva University in 1946 .

After the war, Adler made numerous visits to Germany to promote a reconciliation between Germans and Jews based on international understanding. In Buttenhausen and in the Samaritan Monastery of Grafeneck , he played a key role in the planning and execution of the memorials for the victims of National Socialism and the reconstruction of the synagogue that was destroyed during the Night of the Reichspogrom .

Karl Adler was married to Margarete Adler, b. Marx. The only son Fritz (born June 7, 1927), whom Adler was able to bring to safety in Great Britain in 1938, died in the Atlantic in 1943 while continuing to visit his parents in the USA when the ship sank under circumstances that were not clear.

Adler died in Leonia, New Jersey in 1973.

In 2007 the Israelite Religious Community of Württemberg awarded the "Karl Adler Youth Music Prize" for the first time in memory of Karl Adler.

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Bauz, Sigrid Brüggemann, Roland Maier (eds.): The Secret State Police in Württemberg and Hohenzollern. Stuttgart 2013, pp. 274f. ISBN 3-89657-138-9 .
  2. ^ Fritz Richert: Karl Adler. Musician - persecuted - helper. A picture of life. , Klett-Cotta, 1990, ISBN 978-3608916096 , p. 81

literature

  • Fritz Richert: Karl Adler. Musician - persecuted - helper. A picture of life. , Klett-Cotta, 1990, ISBN 978-3608916096 .

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personal data
SURNAME Adler, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Buttenhausen near Münsingen , Kingdom of Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH 1973
Place of death Leonia , New Jersey