Ludwig Goldstein

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Ludwig Goldstein (born November 10, 1867 in Königsberg , † 1943 ibid) was a German art historian and journalist .

Life

Goldstein, son of master tailor Bernard Goldstein and had converted to Judaism Marie Retty, studied German literature , art history and Indian Studies at the University of Königsberg and received his doctorate after military service with a thesis on Moses Mendelssohn 1896 Dr. phil. In 1899 he became an employee in the features section and local section of the Hartungschen Zeitung . For 27 years, from 1906 to 1933, he was the features editor of the newspaper, which is respected throughout the Reich and which was discontinued after the National Socialists took over the government due to the changed political situation. Ludwig Goldstein became known nationwide for his resolute opposition to censorship when a performance of the play Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind was banned in 1910 .

In 1901 Ludwig Goldstein was among the founders of the Königsberg Goethe Association , which over a thousand citizens joined in the first year of its existence. From 1906 to 1929 Ludwig Goldstein was chairman of the Goethe Association and in this position promoted both the understanding of literary and artistic modernism and, on numerous excursions, the general interest in monuments and the regional history embodied in them. Since anti-Semitism was very strongly represented in Königsberg, Goldstein was pushed out of this position as early as 1929. Shortly after the seizure of power by the Nazis withdrew the Hartungsche newspaper all journalistic jobs in March 1933 its former chief editor. For financial reasons he had to withdraw from membership in the Goethe Society in Weimar, of which he was one of the most important members in Königsberg. But the society gave him a "sponsorship" so that he could remain as a member; he was expelled in 1939, although this was not required in the case of "half-Jews".

In 1934 Goldstein published an autobiographical book entitled Ein Menschenleben . Ludwig Goldstein spent the last years of his life in seclusion in Königsberg. He then wrote a report about his life and experiences during the Nazi era in Königsberg under the title Heimatgebunden during National Socialism , which was not intended for publication. This report is one of the few remaining sources that provide information about the persecution of the Königsberg Jews from around 1936 to 1940 and was only published in 2015. Under the impression of the persecution of the Jews , many former friends turned away from Goldstein; His marriage to a non-Jewish woman saved him from deportation to death. The date of death is usually given as 1943. However, a contemporary only dated Goldstein's death on July 12, 1944.

Works (selection)

  • Moses Mendelssohn and the German Aesthetic . Koenigsberg 1904. Google Books
  • Festblatt of the Hartungschen Zeitung . Koenigsberg 1924.
  • The new theater in Königsberg Pr. Königsberg 1927.
  • Paul Wegener . Koenigsberg 1928.
  • One hundred years of the Königsberg stock exchange . Koenigsberg 1930.
  • A human life - incidents and failures of a newspaper writer . Private print, Ludwig Goldstein Jensenstrasse 7, Königsberg 1934.
  • Tied to home - from the life of an old Königsberger . Edited by Monika Boes , NORA, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86557-367-4 . The manuscript was hidden in the archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation until 2015.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Frevert: The barracked nation. Military service and civil society in Germany . Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47979-0 , p. 211.
  2. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The Albertus University of Königsberg. Its history from the founding of the empire to the fall of the province of East Prussia. Volume 1: 1871-1918 . Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 , p. 385.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Goldstein. at: kultur-in-ostpreussen.de , accessed on July 7, 2013.
  4. ^ Jens Stüben: East Prussia, West Prussia, Danzig. A historical cultural landscape . Oldenbourg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58185-0 , p. 35.
  5. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  6. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The Albertus University of Königsberg. Its history from the founding of the empire to the fall of the province of East Prussia. Volume 1: 1871-1918 . Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004312-8 , p. 385 f.
  7. ^ W. Daniel Wilson: The Faustian Pact. Goethe and the Goethe Society in the Third Reich. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-28166-9 , pp. 31-33, 198 .
  8. ↑ See category works.
  9. ↑ Harry Herbert Tobies: Königsberg, bright city in the east. Writers, actors, artists, musicians with a Jewish background. Self-published, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-016528-3 , p. 169 f.
  10. ↑ Martin August Borrmann: A look back. Memories of childhood and youth, of life and work in East Prussia . Gräfe & Unzer, Munich 1961, p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Koenigsberg