Max Kollenscher

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Max Kollenscher (born September 27, 1875 in Posen , German Reich ; died 1937 in Tel Aviv ) was a German-Polish lawyer and political representative of the interests of the Jewish minority in Poland and Germany.

Life

Max Kollenscher studied law in Würzburg and received his doctorate in 1898. He developed the concept of the Jewish people community, which should replace the religious community (synagogue community). At the time of the establishment of the Second Polish Republic (1918–1920) he headed the Jewish People's Council, which was founded by national Jewish and Jewish-Orthodox circles, and represented the Poznan Jews in the Polish People's Council . He campaigned for the protection of the national and personal rights of the Jews in the form of an autonomy. In the first edition of the bulletin of the Jewish People's Council in Poznan from February 1919, Max Kollenscher wrote the programmatic opening contribution What we want! His Jewish report from the German-Polish transition period. Poznan 1918–1920 is one of the most important testimonies to the history of the Jews in Poznan at that time.

Kollenscher was married to Betty, nee Kaliski. Kollenscher emigrated to Berlin in 1920, where he was a member of the board of the Jewish Community as a representative of the Jewish People's Party . Before emigrating, the couple last lived on Kurfürstendamm 61 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1933 Kollenscher and his wife emigrated to Tel Aviv. Max Kollenscher died there in 1937.

Fonts (selection)

  • Zionism and Citizenship . 1904
  • Tasks of Jewish community politics . Poznan 1905
  • Jewish community politics . Berlin, Zionist Central Bureau 1909
  • Legal relations of the Jews in Prussia . 1910
  • Zionism or Liberal Judaism . Berlin, Zionist. Unite. for Germany 1912
  • Polish citizenship, its acquisition and content for individuals and minorities presented on the basis of the State Treaty of June 28, 1919 between the main allied and associated powers and Poland . Berlin: Vahlen, 1920
  • Jewish items from the German-Polish transition period. Poznan 1918-1920 . Berlin, Ewer, 1925
  • Active and passive Jewish policy. A contemporary view and demarcation . Berlin, Mass 1932
  • Thoughts on the Jewish state . Tel-Aviv, self-ext. d. Zionist Academic Society in Erez-Israel, 1935

literature

  • Michael Brenner : The Jewish People's Party. National-Jewish Communal Politics during the Weimar Republic . Yearbook LBI 1990
  • Michael Brenner: Back to the ghetto? Jewish Concepts of Autonomy in the Weimar Republic . Trumah. Yearbook of the University for Jewish Studies Heidelberg 3 (1992). Pp. 101-127
  • Michael Brenner: Religion, Nation, Tribe: on the change in self-definition among German Jews . In: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Dieter Langewiesche (ed.): Nation and religion in German history. Frankfurt a. M., Campus 2001. pp. 587-597
  • Moshe Zimmermann : The German Jews 1914–1945 (= Encyclopedia of German History. Vol. 43). Munich, Oldenbourg 1997
  • Matthias Hambrock: The establishment of the outsider. The Association of National German Jews 1921–1935 . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, Böhlau 2003
  • Beata Mache: Max Kollenscher and the Jewish People's Council in Posen 1918-1920 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anonymous: Tax profiles and confiscation of assets . In: Official Gazette of the Reich Finance Administration . tape 17 , 1935, pp. 24 .
  2. ↑ Michael Brenner: The Jewish People's Party. National-Jewish Communal Politics during the Weimar Republic Yearbook LBI 1990
  3. ↑ What the Jewish People's Council wanted in Posen in 1919 In: Posener Heimat deutscher Juden, accessed on May 24, 2019
  4. ^ Jewish things from the German-Polish transition period: Posen 1918 - 1920 / by Max Kollenscher , In: http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de , accessed on May 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kollenscher, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH 1937
Place of death Tel Aviv