Max Arendt

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Max with Hannah Arendt (1907)

Max Arendt (* 1843 in Königsberg ; † 1913 there ) was a German wholesale merchant and local politician in Königsberg (Prussia) .

Life

The Max Arendts family was based in Königsberg in the second generation. For many years, Arendt was the mayor of Königsberg. From 1910 to 1913 he was head of the representative assembly of the Jewish community and from 1908 to 1913 chairman of the Central Poor Commission. He was a well-known member of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith and expressly professed to be German . As chairman of the city council, Arendt prohibited the Zionist gymnastics club Makkabi from using city gyms because he suspected that they were anti-German tendencies.

The nurse, police assistant and writer Henriette Arendt was a daughter. The political theorist Hannah Arendt was the daughter of his son Paul Arendt (1873-1913), who was sick with syphilis and returned to Königsberg in 1910, where his wife Martha cared for him during his infirmity. During this time, Max Arendt took great care of his granddaughter. The Zionist Kurt Blumenfeld also frequented his house at this time .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Assimilation and Community Reconsidered: The Jewish Community in Königsberg, 1871-1914 ; Jewish Social Studies 5.3 (1999) 104-131; accessed on November 11, 2009
  2. ^ Mascha Riepl-Schmidt Henriette Arendt (11.11.1874 Königsberg / Pr - 22.8.1922 Mainz): The first German police assistant of the German Reich since 1903 Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg hannaharendt.net, accessed on 11 November 2009
  3. ^ Jerome Kohn: The World of Hannah Arendt ; Library of Congress Information Bulletin Vol. 60, Issue 3, March 2010; accessed on January 6, 2013