Moritz Spanier

Moritz Spanier (born July 2, 1853 in Wunstorf ; † May 19, 1938 in Magdeburg ) was a German Jewish religious educator and author.

Life

Spanier was born as the son of the plumber Lesser Moses Spanier and Elise Spanier, nee Meier. The Jewish family had lived in Wunstorf for several generations. He had three sisters and a brother. His brother Meier Spanier became a writer and Germanist .

He attended the Wunstorf elementary school and then from 1867 to 1871 trained as a teacher in the preparatory class of the Hanover teacher training institute. He then worked as a teacher in Ottersberg and until 1878 at the state rabbinate in Hanover . This was followed by a change to Solingen as a teacher and preacher . In 1881 Spanier went to Magdeburg and became the first full-time Jewish religion teacher there. In 1886 he married Helene Lehmann, born in 1860 in Pasewalk , daughter of a businessman. The marriage produced four children, Gertrud (1888), Arthur (1889), Margarethe (1890) and Willi (1894). In 1896 he received his doctorate in Bern Dr. phil. Spanier wrote several works related to the Jewish school system and gave impetus for the reform of Jewish religious education. From 1905 to 1914 he worked as an editor of the monthly magazine Wegweiser for youth literature . From 1907 to 1913 he participated in the annual educational show , and he also worked for the Jewish-liberal newspaper . He participates in the Association of Jewish Teachers' Associations in the German Empire and campaigned for the introduction of advanced training courses for religious studies and homiletic training for Jewish teachers. At times he was also the chief editor of the Jewish weekly newspaper for Magdeburg and the surrounding area .

In 1917 he retired. He then published other works, particularly on Jewish history. Spanier lived in Magdeburg at Königstrasse 65, today's Walter-Rathenau-Strasse. After 1933 his family was exposed to anti-Semitic attacks.

He died in his apartment in 1938 and was buried in the Israelite cemetery in Magdeburg .

Works (selection)

• Concept, nature and care of the beautiful in the light of education , 1886
• Source book for teaching Jewish history and literature , 1890
• Moses Mendelssohn as a teacher , 1898
• Guide to Jewish Religious Education , four booklets, 1898 to 1910
• Jewish Ethics and Herbart's Five Ethical Ideas , 1901
• Tabular presentation of the history of the Jews in Magdeburg , 1902
• What requirements must be placed on the Jewish teachers and teacher training institutions and met by both? In: On the question of teacher training! Memorandum. Publisher: Association of Jewish Teachers' Associations in the German Empire, 1903, pages 5–15
• History of the Jews in Magdeburg , Magdeburg 1923 (Reprint 2017)

literature

• Ildikó Leubauer: Spaniards, Moritz. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 ( article online ).
• Waltraut Zachhuber , epilogue in the 2017 reprint of the history of the Jews in Magdeburg , Magdeburg 1923, page 49 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Wunstorf Spaniards. In: Yearbook for Jewish History and Literature. Volume 30 (1937), pp. 187-203. Compact memory