Paul Spiegel

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Paul Spiegel (2003)

Paul Spiegel (born December 31, 1937 in Warendorf , Münsterland ; died April 30, 2006 in Düsseldorf ) was a German journalist and entrepreneur . Paul Spiegel was President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany from 2000 until his death .

Life

Stumbling block for Paul Spiegel in Warendorf .

Paul Spiegel comes from a family of cattle dealers who originally lived in Versmold in Westphalia . After the Nazi " seizure of power ", Hugo Spiegel's family first moved to the neighboring Warendorf. After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the family went to Brussels . She survived the Shoah in Flanders , where he was hidden by a pious Catholic peasant family with the help of the parish vicar . His sister had previously been arrested during a raid in Brussels; she died in a concentration camp . His father Hugo Spiegel survived the Buchenwald , Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps . In 1945 the family returned to Warendorf as the first Jewish family. The father rebuilt the synagogue community. Paul Spiegel attended the Laurentianum grammar school and finished his education. He describes these events in his book Home again? .

In 1958 he began a traineeship at the Allgemeine Jüdische Wochenzeitung in Düsseldorf. He also worked as an editor for this newspaper until 1965 . In the 1960s he also worked for various other newspapers, such as the Montrealer Nachrichten , Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad (Amsterdam), Neue Welt (Vienna), Jüdische Rundschau Maccabi (Basel), Der Mittag (Düsseldorf), Neue Rhein Zeitung (Düsseldorf) , Westfälische Rundschau (Dortmund). In 1973 and 1974 he was editor-in-chief of Mode und Wohnen magazine . He then headed public relations for the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband (RSGV) in Düsseldorf for twelve years . In 1986 he founded an artist and media agency on the initiative of TV presenter Hans Rosenthal , with which he represented Birgit Schrowange , among others .

In 1964 he married Gisèle Spatz, with whom he had two daughters. His aunt was the Holocaust survivor Marga Spiegel .

Paul Spiegel died in the morning hours of April 30, 2006 in Düsseldorf after suffering a heart attack on February 3 of that year and also contracting pneumonia . He found his final resting place in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery. In 2007 the square in front of the New Synagogue in Düsseldorf was named after him.

Public offices

Paul Spiegel had been a member of the municipal council of the Israelite cultural community in Düsseldorf since 1967 . In 1978 he became a member of the board and from 1984 to 2002 he was chairman of the municipal council of the Israelite cultural community in Düsseldorf. In 1989 Spiegel was appointed to the board of directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and from 1989 to 2000 he was chairman of the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany . In 1993 Paul Spiegel became a member and vice-president of the executive branch of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. In 1995 he took over the chairmanship of the regional association of the Jewish communities of North Rhine . As the successor to Ignatz Bubis , he became President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany on January 9, 2000.

During his term of office as President of the Central Council, the first state treaty between the Central Council and the German Federal Government was signed in January 2003 and, in December 2002, the first visit by an Israeli President to the opening of a synagogue (the Bergische Synagoge ) on German soil.

Paul Spiegel had been a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council since 1991 .

In 1999 Paul Spiegel was sent to the Federal Assembly at the suggestion of the SPD . He was also a member of the Federal Assembly in the 2004 federal presidential election, but this time at the suggestion of the CDU .

In August 2000, together with Uwe-Karsten Heye and Michel Friedman, he founded the association “ Show your face! For a cosmopolitan Germany eV "founded, which campaigns nationwide for a cosmopolitan and tolerant Germany.

Fonts

Quotes

  • "The murderers hide behind the call for peace."
  • “You can't say no to war a priori . The concentration camps were not liberated by peace demonstrations either, but by the Red Army . "

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Spiegel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Paul Spiegel  - Quotes
 Wikinews: Paul Spiegel  - on the news

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  1. ↑ Paul Spiegel is dead. Spiegel-Online from April 30, 2006.
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Paul Spiegel
  3. ↑ Düsseldorf gets Paul-Spiegel-Platz , Rheinische Post , article from June 18, 2007, accessed on July 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel from January 9, 2000: Central Council of Jews - Paul Spiegel succeeds Bubis , accessed on November 24, 2009
  5. ↑ http://www.wahlrecht.de/news/2004/09.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.gesichthaben.de/index.php/navigation/verein/
  7. ↑ Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection: Show your face!
  8. ^ Paul Spiegel Prize for moral courage
personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiegel, Yitzhak Ben Chaim Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, entrepreneur and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Warendorf
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2006
Place of death Dusseldorf