Kurt Tuchler

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Kurt Tuchler (born December 11, 1894 in Stolp , † September 23, 1978 in Tel Aviv ) was a German-Israeli lawyer and Zionist .

Life

Kurt Tuchler came from a Jewish family based in West Prussia and Pomerania , who ran a textile goods store on the north side of the market in Stolp, the Tuchler & Neumann department store , for generations .

He was active in the Jewish youth movement early on and was one of the co-founders of Blau-Weiß , the Association for Jewish Youth Hiking in Germany. During a summer vacation on the Baltic Sea in Stolpmünde in 1912 he met Walter Benjamin , which led to a friendship with passionate discussions, a trip to Paris and an intensive exchange of letters .

After graduating from high school in Stolp, he studied law and economics at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich . In Munich he became a member of a striking Jewish student union , presumably with Jordania Munich .

Memorial plaque in the labor court in Berlin

Tuchler took part in the First World War as a volunteer ; he was a non-commissioned officer in the 1st Guard Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment and received the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class. He then entered the Prussian judicial service and was first magistrate and then district judge in Berlin until 1933. After the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service , he was in 1933 forcibly retired. His name can be found with those of other persecuted Jewish judges on memorial plaques at the labor court in Berlin and in the house of the German Judges' Association in Berlin's Kronenstrasse.

He was involved in the board of the Zionist Association for Germany and participated as a delegate in several Zionist congresses. As part of efforts to facilitate the emigration, which in haavara agreement were reflected, he accompanied Leopold von Mildenstein on his trip to Palestine , what this 1934 in a series of articles in the attack under the title drives a Nazi to Palestine reported .

In 1936 Kurt Tuchler succeeded in emigrating to Eretz Israel with his wife and children . They lived in an apartment in Tel Aviv. Kurt Tuchler became one of the founding partners of the Moritz Tuchler investment company . Even after the end of the Second World War, the connection to Leopold von Mildenstein and his family remained.

Kurt Tuchler was married to Gerda, b. Lehmann (* 1909; † 2007). The son of their daughter Hannah, the Israeli director Arnon Goldfinger , shot the documentary Die Wohnung in Tel Aviv after Gerda Tuchler's death and the necessary liquidation of the apartment , which has won numerous awards, including the Bavarian Film Prize for best documentary in 2011 .

Works

  • Order in the resolution. In: Hans Tramer (ed.): In Zwei Welten: Siegfried Moses for his seventy-fifth birthday. Tel Aviv: Bitaon, 1962, pp. 128-132

literature

  • Arnon Goldfinger: Film "The Apartment". Your friend, the enemy. In: ZEIT magazine from June 14, 2012 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pomeranian Jewish family secret as a source for an award-winning film , accessed on June 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Goldfinger, ZEIT (lit.)
  3. ↑ The correspondence itself has not been preserved, see for example Sandro Pignotti: Walter Benjamin - Judentum und Literatur. Tradition, origin, doctrine with a brief history of Zionism. Rombach, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7930-9547-7 , pp. 8-10
  4. ↑ According to the number of employees at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, winter half year 1916/17 (PDF; 17.7 MB), p. XXXII
  5. ↑ Memorial plaque "Persecuted - Disenfranchised - Driven out of office" ( Memento of the original dated May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 8, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.drb.de
  6. ↑ «The apartment»: Fascinating family saga in the first  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. shz.de from August 5, 2014, accessed on September 5, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.shz.de  
personal data
SURNAME Tuchler, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli lawyer and Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Stumble
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1978
Place of death Tel Aviv