Meinhard Tenné
Meinhard Mordechai Tenné (born Meinhard Teschner on May 26, 1923 in Berlin ; died on September 29, 2015 in Stuttgart ) was a German - Israeli representative of Judaism . He was best known for his decades-long endeavor to promote dialogue between religions and reconciliation.
Life
Meinhard M. Tenné fled to Switzerland with his father in 1938 at the age of 15 . He moved to the new State of Israel in 1948.
The Mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek , brought him to the Jerusalem City Council. He asked him to set up the Israeli tourism office from Switzerland. When an office was to be opened in Frankfurt, Tenné agreed to take on this task.
Together with his wife Inge he moved to Stuttgart in 1970 and from 1981 belonged to the representative office of the Israelite Religious Community Württemberg (IRGW). In 1989 he was elected to the board of the community and was its board spokesman until 2001. In 1999 the city of Stuttgart and the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (GCJZ) awarded him the Otto Hirsch Medal for his diverse efforts to promote dialogue between religions .
Tenné was also the founding donor of the Stuttgart Lehrhaus Foundation and an honorary member of the Christian-Islamic Society Stuttgart , the House of Abraham and the Forum for Jewish Education and Culture Stuttgart . He was involved in the Denkendorf Circle . For his commitment, he received several prizes and medals, including the German Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2004 and the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 2015.
Fonts
- Out of my life. Stiftung Stuttgarter Lehrhaus, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-933231-87-1 .
Awards
- 1998: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 1999: Otto Hirsch Medal
- 2004: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 2013: German Dialogue Prize of the Federation of German Dialogue Institutions
- 2015: Large Federal Cross of Merit
Web links
- Literature by and about Meinhard Tenné in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Meinhard Tenné in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Dataset of the DNB
- ↑ Michael Blume : Mourning for Meinhard Mordechai Tenne (May 26, 1923 - September 29, 2015) . Spectrum of Science , September 30, 2015, accessed October 4, 2015.
- ↑ Meinhard M. Tenné, recipient of the Otto Hirsch Medal, has died . Obituary by the City of Stuttgart, September 29, 2015.
- ↑ Great Cross of Merit to Meinhard Tenné on baden-wuerttemberg.de, March 10, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tenné, Meinhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tenné, Meinhard Modechai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli representative of Judaism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th September 2015 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |