Siegfried Lichtenstaedter

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Siegfried Lichtenstaedter (born January 8, 1865 in Baiersdorf ; died December 6, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German administrative lawyer and journalist on questions of Judaism, he published primarily under the pseudonyms Mehemed Emin Efendi , Ne'man and UR Deutsch .

Life

Lichtenstaedter, a son of the businessman and Talmud researcher Wolf Lichtenstaedter and Sophie Sulzberger, attended grammar school in Erlangen . He first studied linguistics and oriental studies, then jurisprudence, and after his legal state examination entered the Bavarian financial service, from which he was transferred to retirement in 1932 as a senior councilor.

His first work, Culture and Humanity, on the attitude of the Europeans towards the peoples of the Near East , he had to publish under a pseudonym in 1897 , as did his other writings, since his official position did not allow him to have far-reaching political discussions. As early as 1898 in the publication The Future of Turkey , he anticipated the population exchange actually carried out in 1923. He took up the subject again in 1927 to make a proposal on the South Tyrol question . Lichtenstaedter published anti-Zionist writings in 1918 and then repeatedly , because he was critical of the possibilities of Jewish settlement in Palestine. From 1925 he could also risk publishing some of his writings under his real name. In 1936 he had prepared an autobiography in manuscript that was to appear posthumously .

In addition to political writings and writings on the practice of Jewish religion, he also wrote satires: Das neue Weltreich (1902); Moral Stories (1914) and Antisemitica (1926), to which he remarked in 1935 that his prophecies were correct, but that the events were wrong!

Von Lichtenstaedter's writings appeared in 1938 on the list of harmful and undesirable literature : The Jewish religion in the present and future ; Birth regulation and Judaism ; Jewish Politics ; Nationality principle and population exchange ; Practical Judaism ; Right or wrong? ; Schacht question and Jewish dietary laws ; Slaughter question and slaughter opponent ; Slaughter question and animal protection ; Antisemitica . The writings he had given up under a pseudonym were also identified using the Jewish card index .

Lichtenstaedter was deported on June 25, 1942 with Transport II / 9 from Munich to the Theresienstadt ghetto and murdered there on December 6, 1942.

Others

In 2005, Jussi Isaksen succeeded in locating a great niece of Lichtenstaedter in Israel and in long conversations with her about her trusted great-uncle. Isaksen has been collecting letters, notes, writings and materials relating to the work and life of Lichtenstaedter since 1993 and has been trying to set up a "Siegfried Lichtenstaedter Archive" since 2006.

In 2011 Götz Aly published a highly acclaimed book entitled Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Equality, envy and racial hatred 1800 to 1933. At the beginning of his first chapter, Aly Lichtenstaedter and his book quotes Zionism and other future possibilities. as follows: [Who would have predicted around 1900] "that from 1933 onwards thousands of us would flee to Palestine in order not to perish would undoubtedly have been considered ripe for the madhouse.

Fonts (selection)

Mehemed Emin Efendi: "Debit and credit" . Title page. Two further publisher announcements on the frontispiece. (1919)
  • Jewish worries, Jewish errors, Jewish future. Winnenden b. Stuttgart: Lämmle & Müllerschön, 1937, As Ms. gedr.
  • Zionism and other future possibilities. Leipzig: G. Engel, 1935.
  • Jewish questions. Leipzig: Engel, 1935
  • The Transylvanian Question; a contribution to the revision question, a warning to Magyars and Germans. Winnenden, JEG Wegner, 1934.
  • Jewish politics: reflections, warnings, words of reproach, words of comfort. Leipzig: Engel, 1933.
  • Conservation and Judaism. Frankfurt a. M.: J. Kauffmann , 1932.
  • Schacht question and animal welfare. Leipzig: G. Engel, 1929.
  • South Tyrol and Ticino. Dießen am Ammersee ; Publishing house Jos. C. Huber , 1927.
  • Antisemitica. Cheerful and serious, true and fictitious. Leipzig: G. Engel, 1926.
  • International unreason and immorality. Dießen am Ammersee; Publishing house Jos. C. Huber, 1925.
  • Thrift as a patriotic duty. Neuhof, Kr. Teltow: Central office z. Dissemination of good German literature, 1923.
  • "Should and have". Attempt for an impartial balance of law and debt for the war of nations. Bad Nassau (Lahn): Central office z. Dissemination of good German literature, 1919.
  • The future of Palestine. Frankfurt: Kauffmann, 1918.
  • Nationality principle and population exchange. Dresden: Giesecke, 1917.
  • Moral narratives. For edification and training for politicians. Leipzig: Gracklauer, 1914.
  • The new world empire. Psychological and political fantasies. , Munich: Staegmayr, 1901.

radio play

  • The Jewish bailiff . Radio play based on a short story by Siegfried Lichtenstaedter. Editing and direction: Richard Oehmann . Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk 2020. First broadcast on May 23, 2020, 3:05 pm on Bayern2.

literature

  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925).
  • Lichtenstaedter, Siegfried. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 16: Lewi – Mehr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Munich: Saur 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22696-0 , pp. 25-32.
  • Gert Gröning: "Forget" about nature conservation, the writer Siegfried Lichtenstaedter: Nature conservation and Judaism. In: Hubertus Fischer; Julia Matveev; Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Ed.), Nature and Landscape Perception in German-Language Jewish and Christian Literature of the First Half of the 20th Century , Munich: Meidenbauer 2010 (CGL-Studies; 7), ISBN 978-3-89975-185-7 , Pp. 231-254.
  • Siegfried Lichtenstaedter: Prophet of Destruction. About the people's spirit and hatred of Jews . Published by Götz Aly, Frankfurt a. M. (S. Fischer Verlag) 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397421-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salomon Wininger: Great Jewish National Biography , Vol. 7, p. 255.
  2. ↑ Quotation from: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors. Volume 16, p. 26.
  3. ↑ Exiled Books
  4. ^ Website: Archive Siegfried Lichtenstaedter
  5. ↑ Götz Aly: Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Equality, envy and racial hatred , Fischer, 2011, page 8 (paperback edition 2012): Blick ins Buch
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenstaedter, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lichtenstädter, Siegfried (alternative spelling); Lichtenstaedter, Siegfrid (alternative spelling); Lichtenstaedter, S. (alternative notation); Mehemed Emin Effendi (pseudonym); Ne'man (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Jewish publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Baiersdorf
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto