Lazarus Gumpel
Lazarus Gumpel (born April 29, 1770 in Hildesheim , † November 9, 1843 in Hamburg ) was a German merchant and is known as a founder .
Live and act
Lazarus Gumpel came from Hildesheim, where he was considered very respected and made a large fortune. In 1814 he moved to Hamburg. He initially lived as a protective Jew in Hamburg's old town, then in the Neustadt there, where he paid most of the community's taxes for a long period of time. Gumpel was committed to equal rights for Jewish citizens and was one of the founding members of the Israelite Templar Association in 1817. In 1837 he donated two large buildings with 51 apartments, each of which at Schlachterstrasse 40 to 42 offered three floors of living space for impoverished Jews. These apartments, which served as a model for many other such foundations, were destroyed during World War II. The patron also donated clothes, food, fuel and medicines.
The grave of Lazarus Gumpel was initially in the Grindelfriedhof . After the National Socialists abandoned the cemetery in 1937, his remains were transferred to the Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery . There today a memorial stone on the honorary complex of the German-Israelite Community commemorates the founder, who died in 1843.
Lazarus Gumpel and Heinrich Heine
Lazarus Gumpel lived in Ottensen near the banker Salomon Heine , who was an uncle of Heinrich Heine . Heinrich Heine, who never met Lazarus Gumpel personally, considered him to be an upstart who wanted to imitate the uncle's lifestyle in all its facets and who, as a Jew, followed the ideals of the Christian bourgeoisie. In part three of the "Travel Pictures" ("The Baths of Lucca") he mocked and vilified his uncle's neighbor. He caricatured him in the shape of a Hamburg banker, a simple-minded parvenu named "Christian Gumpel", who appears in Italy as "Markese Christoforo di Gumpelino". Heine's motives for this portrayal of Gumpels, whose family is said to have been very angry about it, are unclear. Salomon Heine, on the other hand, is said to have been happy about the representation.
literature
- Irmgard Stein: Lazarus Gumpel and his foundation for free housing in Hamburg. Christians, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-7672-1137-8 .
- Michael Studemund-Halévy : Gumpel, Lazarus . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 116 .
Web links
- Irmgard Stein: Gumpel, Lazarus on Das Jüdische Hamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gumpel, Lazarus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1843 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |