Paul Arnsberg

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Paul Arnsberg (by Clemens M. Strugalla)

Paul Arnsberg (born December 26, 1899 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 10, 1978 there ) was a German - Jewish historian , journalist , writer and publisher .

Life path

Arnsberg was the son of the businessman Albert Arnsberg and his wife Recha, b. Rap. He attended the pre-school and secondary school of the Israelite religious society ( Am Tiergarten 8). From 1915 to high school graduation in 1917, he attended the Liebig secondary school in Frankfurt. In June 1917 he was called up as a soldier. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1922 he received his doctorate from the University of Giessen to Dr. jur. Since 1920 board member of the Zionist Association for Germany . In 1923 he was elected first chairman of the Frankfurt Jewish Association. He worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung , the Frankfurter Wochenblatt and the Jüdische Wochenblatt Frankfurts. He was editor of the Jewish Family Gazette for Science, Art and Literature and the Zionist News . Between 1931 and 1933 he was a member of the community council of the Israelite community in Frankfurt. Arnsberg worked as a jurist, was after the seizure of power of the National Socialists dismissed from the civil service in 1933 and emigrated to Palestine . His brother Ludwig Arnsberg was murdered by the Gestapo in Paris in 1942 .

emigration

In Tel Aviv he was initially active as a representative for newspapers. In the same year he met Rosa Abramowitsch there, who had also just emigrated from the German Reich, she came from Berlin . The two married about six months later, and their first child was born in December 1934, a daughter, who was followed by two more daughters and a son. In the second half of the 1930s, the couple and their two older children visited their German homeland and their families there several times. The worsening situation for Jews there does not remain hidden from them.

Paul Arnsberg worked as a journalist for the Jewish Chronicle , German and English-language Zionist newspapers, and finally became editor-in-chief of the weekly Emeth , sold books and writing materials in his own shops in all small towns, and later became Israel's largest newspaper and book publisher.

Return to Germany

In the weekly magazine Emeth (Hebrew: אמת, The Truth ), the official organ of the Zionist movement, Arnsberg spoke out in the November 3rd 1950 issue in favor of resuming relations with Germany. In 1958 - after 25 years - he decided to return to West Germany, to Frankfurt am Main. Business as a newspaper and book publisher in Israel became increasingly difficult. In West Germany he wanted to demand redress for the expulsion by the National Socialists . The three grown daughters stayed in Israel, only the thirteen-year-old son Gad came with them, for whom it was initially difficult to find his way around the completely strange environment and society without friends. But it was also difficult for Rosl Arnsberg, emotionally she was drawn to Israel.

As a freelance journalist with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (from 1960) and with the Rheinischer Merkur , as a member of the council and finally a member of the board of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main and the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Arnsberg was quickly bound in Germany. His best friend finally asked him to research and write the history of Frankfurt's Jews since the French Revolution. After careful consideration, he took on this major task, and a three-volume work was finally created. During his research he came across a large number of foundations owned by Jewish citizens of the city, some of which he reactivated and on whose board he was involved.

In 1978, however, Paul Arnsberg died of a heart attack before completing his work. He was buried in the old Nachlat Itzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv. The couple had dreamed of returning to Israel together after the historic work was completed. However, he had planned other book projects that were now unfinished. Some of it appeared posthumously, partly supplemented by the historian Hans-Otto Schembs .

Paul Arnsberg's wife Rosa, called Rosl, took over his board work in all the foundations that he had reactivated. She tried hard to have her husband's historic work completed.

Engagements

Honors

Works

  • Paul Arnsberg: From Podolia to Offenbach: The Jewish Salvation Army of Jakob Frank. On the history of the Frankist movement . Offenbach am Main city archive. 1965
  • Paul Arnsberg: Jakob H. Schiff . Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
  • Paul Arnsberg: Pictures from Jewish life in old Frankfurt . Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970, ISBN 3-7829-0099-5 .
  • Paul Arnsberg: The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning . Volume 1 and 2. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971/72, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 .
  • Paul Arnsberg: Henry Budge - blessings donated to the beloved hometown . Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7829-0124-X .
  • Paul Arnsberg: The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning . Volume 3. Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1973, ISBN 3-7929-0007-0 .
  • Paul Arnsberg: Nine Hundred Years of Mother Church in Israel . Verlag Josef Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-7820-0311-X .
  • Paul Arnsberg, Hans-Otto Schembs: The history of the Frankfurt Jews since the French Revolution . 3 volumes. Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-7929-0130-7 (for all three volumes)
    • Volume I: The Course of Events .
    • Volume II: Structure and activities of the Frankfurt Jews from 1789 to their extermination in the National Socialist era .
    • Volume III: Biographical lexicon of the Jews in the areas: science, culture, education, public relations in Frankfurt am Main .
  • Paul Arnsberg: Civil courage to resist . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-7973-0687-3 .
  • Paul Arnsberg, Hans-Otto Schembs: Chronicle of the rabbis in Frankfurt am Main . Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-7829-0531-8 .

literature

Audio on demand

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Biographie, first volume A - L, pp. 30–31.
  2. ↑ a b "Arnsberg, Paul". Hessian biography. (As of June 28, 2016). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Rosl Arnsberg - The life story of a Frankfurt Jewish woman on: hr-online.de (PDF file; 119 kB)
  4. ↑ Theodor Wolff Prize ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bdzv.de
  5. ^ Paul-Arnsberg-Platz, Frankfurt am Main at: id-landschaftsarchitekten.de
  6. ^ Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize at: sptg.de
  7. ↑ Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize for Research into Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main at: hu-berlin.de
  8. ^ Paul Arnsberg memorial stele on: juedisches-frankfurt.de
  9. ↑ In honor of Paul Arnsberg . In: Jüdische Allgemeine, June 9, 2011 at: juedische-allgemeine.de
personal data
SURNAME Arnsberg, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1978
Place of death Frankfurt am Main