Max Friediger

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Dr. Max Friediger

Max Friediger (born April 9, 1884 in Budapest ; died April 9, 1947 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish chief rabbi and survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Friediger attended grammar school in Budapest and, after graduating from high school , studied at the Kaiser Wilhelm University and at the same time at the rabbinical seminary in Berlin . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. and obtained the rabbi diploma . He then headed the Talmud Torah School in Prague from 1909 to 1911 and was a lecturer at the teachers ' college there. He worked as a rabbi in Pohrlitz from 1911 to 1913 and in Oderberg from 1913 to 1919 . During the First World War he was employed as a field rabbi in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918 . From 1920 to 1947 Friediger was the Royal Danish Chief Rabbi in Copenhagen. He was married to Fanny, née Seegal, from Berlin; the couple had two children.

After the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht , Friediger was arrested on August 29, 1943, before the Danish Jews were rescued , and interned in the Horserød camp. Friediger was later deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on October 6, 1943. There he belonged as a so-called celebrity from January 1944 to the Jewish council of elders and became a welfare worker. Friediger was evacuated from Theresienstadt to Sweden with other Danish prisoners from Theresienstadt in mid-April 1945 as part of the rescue operation of the White Buses by the Swedish Red Cross under the direction of Folke Bernadotte . Friediger died in 1947 and was succeeded by Marcus Melchior as the Danish Chief Rabbi .

literature

  • Hans Günther Adler : Theresienstadt. The Face of a Compulsory Community 1941-1945 Afterword Jeremy Adler. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005 ISBN 3-89244-694-6 (reprint of the 2nd verb. Edition Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1960. 1st edition ibid. 1955)
  • Axel Feuss: The Theresienstadt-Konvolut , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935549-22-9 .
  • Max Friediger: Theresienstadt , Copenhagen 1946 (Danish)
  • Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 115

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data from: American Jewish Year Book , Volume 49, 1947, p. 621
  2. ↑ a b Short biography of Max Friediger at www.ghetto-theresienstadt.info
  3. ^ A b Leo Goldberger: The Rescue Of The Danish Jews: Moral Courage Under Stress. New York New York University Press, 1988. p. 71
  4. ^ Hans Günther Adler: Theresienstadt. The face of a forced community 1941-1945 , 1960, p. 253
  5. ^ Hans Günther Adler: Theresienstadt. The face of a forced community 1941-1945 , 1960, p. 779
  6. ↑ Ralph Oppenhejm : At the limit of life. Theresienstadt diary. Rütten & Loening Verlag, Hamburg 1961
personal data
SURNAME Peaceful, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Chief Rabbi and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1947
Place of death Copenhagen