Kurt Sternberg
Kurt Sternberg (born June 19, 1885 in Berlin ; † September 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German philosopher and author of Jewish descent.
Life
Sternberg studied philosophy and fought for the German Empire in the First World War .
Since his income from publications and lectures was not enough for a living, he traveled all over Germany as a salesman for a linen company. In his philosophical works he dealt mainly with Immanuel Kant . He was also interested in art and architecture and had contacts with the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe .
Sternberg was arrested in the course of the November pogroms on November 10, 1938 and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was released six weeks later. In 1939 he fled the National Socialists to the Netherlands . After its occupation in May 1940, he was picked up in Groningen, taken to the Westerbork transit camp and then deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was murdered in September 1942.
family
Klaus Sternberg was the son of the commercial judge Emil Sternberg. He was married to Rosemarie, with whom he had a son named Klaus. After his escape to the Netherlands, his wife and son fled to England .
His son Klaus Sternberg (* 1920–2011 in Berlin) returned to Germany after the Second World War , where he gave lectures on the history of Judaism , the Jews in Germany and the history of Israel . He also appeared as a contemporary witness about the Nazi era and gave a lecture on anti-Semitism . In 2009 he was with the Public Service Medal of the Berlin district of Treptow-Koepenick honored.
Commemoration
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Since July 30, 2005 there has been a stumbling block in front of the Uhlandstrasse 175 property in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in memory of Kurt Sternberg and the fate of the people who were deported and murdered by the National Socialists .
Works (selection)
- Kurt Sternberg: Neo-Kantian tasks , Pan-Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, 1931
- Kurt Sternberg: The birth of something out of nowhere , Pan-Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin, 1933
- Kurt Sternberg: Philosophical problems in the biblical and apocryphal writings of the Jews , Berlin, Goldstein, 1938
literature
- Sternberg, Kurt. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 15, Sp. 395f.
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
Web links
- Stolperstein Uhlandstraße 175 on the website of the District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- Martin Rath: Holocaust Remembrance Day: Dr. Kurt Sternberg (1885-1942). In: Legal Tribune Online . January 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sternberg, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1942 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |