Max Dienemann
Max Dienemann (born on September 27, 1875 in Krotoschin , Province of Posen ; died on April 10, 1939 in Tel Aviv ) was a German rabbi , journalist and philologist . He was one of the leading liberal rabbis in Germany. Together with Leo Baeck , he headed the General Association of Rabbis in Germany , in which liberal and Orthodox rabbis were organized.
Life
Max Dienemann first attended a Jewish elementary school and a grammar school. He then studied oriental philology in Breslau and received his doctorate in 1898. In the following decades Dienemann published in Jewish newspapers, published sermons and prepared interpretations of the Torah . His lectures held all over Germany testified to his rather traditional attitude towards Judaism. He warned early on against nationalism and racism and pleaded for Zionism . From 1903 to 1919 he was a rabbi in Ratibor / Upper Silesia . In 1919 he was appointed rabbi by the Israelite community in Offenbach am Main and held office there until 1938. He lived at Körnerstraße 12 .
Dienemann campaigned for the unity and independence of the Jews in Germany, but at the same time saw himself as a “German patriot”. In 1935 Dienemann ordained Regina Jonas as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
Dienemann was interned twice in concentration camps during the National Socialist era. 1933 in Osthofen concentration camp and 1938 in Buchenwald concentration camp . He and his family were forced to emigrate after the November pogroms in 1938 . The Dienemann family reached Palestine via London in March 1939 , where Max Dienemann died shortly afterwards.
His wife, Mally Dienemann, published a commemorative book on Dienemann as a private print in 1946 in Plymouth , England.
Works (selection)
- Judaism and Christianity , 1914
- Liberal Judaism , Schocken, Berlin 1935
- Galuth , 1939
- Co-editor of the CV magazine Der Morgen 1931–1933
Appreciations
- In Offenbach am Main, a path in Büsing Park was named after him. The Max-Dienemann-Weg runs parallel to the Kaiserstraße and crosses the Regina-Jonas-Weg.
- In 1995 the Max Dienemann / Salomon Formstecher Gesellschaft eV was founded in Offenbach in memory of his predecessor Salomon Formstecher and himself
literature
- Mally Dienemann: Max Dienemann. A memorial book. 1875-1939 . Latimer, Trend & Co, Plymouth, England 1946
- Frank Surall: Between Dogmatism and Rejudaization. The (in) differentiated perception of Protestantism in Max Dienemann . In: Görge K. Hasselhoff (ed.), The discovery of Christianity in the science of Judaism , Berlin; New York 2010, pp. 279-300
- Frank Surall: Dienemann, Max. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 354-3365.
- Dienemann, Max. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 406-413.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Dienemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max Dienemann on the website of the NS Documentation Center Rhineland-Palatinate
- Max Dienemann / Salomon Formstecher Gesellschaft eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annette Becker : Light as a feather. Avitall Gerstetter, cantor and soprano, in concert . From: Frankfurter Rundschau, August 15, 2002, p. 29.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dienemann, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi, journalist and philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krotoschin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1939 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |