Paul Nathan

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Paul Nathan

Paul Nathan (born April 25, 1857 in Berlin ; † March 15, 1927 there ) was a German-Jewish social politician .

Life

Nathan was the son of the Berlin banker Wilhelm Nathan and nephew of the banker Moritz von Cohn . He worked as a journalist from 1877 and studied history and economics at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From 1880 he studied archeology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1881 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil.

In 1901 he founded the Aid Association of German Jews . He promoted the development of the school system in Palestine, the Volkshochschule Berlin and the emergency community of German science . After the Kishinev pogroms (1903) he called representatives of Jewish organizations from different countries to discuss the situation and contacted Russian personalities close to the Tsar . After the pogroms during the peasant uprising in Romania in 1907 , he campaigned for compensation for the Jews affected. In 1907 he made his first trip to Palestine to get to know the living conditions of the Jewish settlers. One result of this trip was the decision of the aid association to found a technical university in Palestine, the Technion in Haifa.

He greeted the First World War with enthusiasm . For him it was important to “save Germany from political and economic annihilation”.

editor

Nathan was editor of Ludwig Bamberger's five-volume memoir and co-editor of the weekly Die Nation (organized in the Aid Association for Russian Jews).

politics

In the German Empire he was first in the National Liberal Party . From 1900 to 1919 he was a city councilor in Berlin for the Progressive People's Party . In the Weimar Republic he became a member of the German Democratic Party (1919) and the SPD (1921).

Works

  • The disappointments of our opponents . Stuttgart 1914.
  • Palestine and Palestinian Zionism . Berlin 1914.
  • The Eastern Jews in Germany and the anti-Semitic reaction . Berlin 1922.
  • The problem of the Eastern Jews . Berlin 1926.

literature

  • Paul Nathan . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 230.
  • Franz Menges:  Nathan, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 746 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Tobias Brinkmann: Why Paul Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin: The Transatlantic Mass Migration and the Privatization of Prussia's Eastern Border Inspection, 1886–1914. In: Central European History. 43, No. 01, 2010, pp. 47-83. doi : 10.1017 / S0008938909991336
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
  • Nathan, Paul. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 257-262.
  • Ernst Feder : Paul Nathan, politician and philanthropist, in Robert Weltsch Hg .: German Judaism, rise and crisis. Design, ideas, works. Fourteen monographs. Publication by the Leo Baeck Institute . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1963, pp. 120–144.
  • David Hamann: Organizing Migration. Paul Nathan and the Aid Association of German Jews (1881-1914 / 18) , in: Kalonymos 19 (2016), 2, pp. 6-10 online
  • David Hamann: From Hamburg to the World - Jewish Emigration and the Aid Association of German Jews , 2016, part of the Hamburg key documents on German-Jewish history online .
  • Christoph year: Paul Nathan: publicist, politician and philanthropist 1857-1927 , Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag [2018] ISBN 978-3-8353-3297-3 .

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Nathan  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson : History of the Jewish People - From the Beginnings to the Present . 1992, ISBN 3-7632-4070-5 (licensed edition for the Gutenberg Book Guild in one volume, page 1139).
  2. ↑ Zeev Sadmon: The establishment of the Technion in Haifa in the light of German politics, 1907-1920 . Saur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-598-23222-5 , p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Nathan, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION liberal social politician and Jewish functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1927
Place of death Berlin