Kurt Juster

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Kurt Adolf Juster (born September 25, 1908 in Berlin , † March 23, 1992 in Gothenburg ) pioneered work with the disabled in Sweden and Germany .

biography

1908 to 1938

Signature Kurt Juster

Kurt Juster was born in Berlin in 1908. His father, Isedor Juster, came from a Jewish family living in Romania . In the 1920s , Juster worked as an actor . He was part of the ensemble of the German Theater in Berlin. In 1930 Kurt Juster moved to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . In the following period he also worked as a cabaret artist in Düsseldorf and Cologne .

Since his appearances in Cologne were disrupted by the SA and finally made impossible, Kurt Juster moved to Hamburg in 1934 . In the Hanseatic city he was a businessman and authorized signatory in the company of his uncle, a carpet dealer, until his business was Aryanized and the property of the Jewish family was confiscated.

In the wake of the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, Kurt Juster was arrested and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . His wife Gertrud, with whom he had been married since 1931, successfully campaigned for his release.

1938 to 1956

In December 1938 Kurt Juster emigrated to Sweden with his wife and two-year-old daughter Eva.

Ten years later, the twins Claes and Nina were born in Gothenburg. Juster's daughter Nina was spastically paralyzed from birth . With Nina, Kurt Juster, who was in exile in Sweden a . a. worked as a journalist and literary critic to get involved in the field of work with the disabled.

Contacts were made with doctors, therapists and parents of spastically paralyzed children. In 1953 the Justers and others founded the parents' association for CMR (CMR = Central Motor Disorders) - children in Gothenburg . This became a model for parents' associations in other Swedish cities. In 1955 a central association of parents' associations grew out of these , which set itself the goal of improving the care, medical care and training of spastically paralyzed children, adolescents and adults. The parents elected Kurt Juster as chairman of the association.

1956 to 1976

In 1956 the family returned to Germany without their eldest daughter Eva. Hamburg became the residence of the Justers. In the Hanseatic city, Kurt Juster continued the commitment he had started in Sweden. He founded the Association for the Promotion and Care of Spastically Paralyzed Children eV Hamburg , which was renamed in 1996 to Life with Disability Hamburg . Families with disabled relatives are united in life with disabilities . The association takes care of living and working opportunities as well as educational and leisure activities for people with disabilities.

In 1958, Kurt Juster opened the first state special school in the Hanseatic city for spastic paralyzed children on Eppendorfer Landstrasse . This was followed in 1959 by a second one in the Hirtenweg.

Kurt Juster's time in Hamburg was characterized by the establishment and maintenance of countless contacts, which he used to improve the living conditions of people with disabilities.

The work of the association founded by Juster received nationwide attention. In 1979 Kurt Juster was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

1976 to 1992

From 1976 Kurt Juster lived again in Sweden for financial reasons. In 1992 he died from Alzheimer's disease in a Gothenburg nursing home .

Kurt Juster School

Since 2008, the state special school in Hamburg-Alsterdorf for pupils with motor disabilities or learning, language, perception and behavior problems has been called the Kurt-Juster-Schule .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt-Juster-Schule , accessed on February 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Juster, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juster, Kurt Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pioneer in work with the disabled, actor and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1992
Place of death Gothenburg