Solomon Bear

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Salomon Bär , occasionally written Baer , (born May 31, 1870 in Oberdorf , † November 16, 1940 in Gurs , Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques , France ), was a German doctor and aphorist

Life

The son of the Jewish cattle dealer Bernhard Bär and his wife Mina, b. Wolf, from Oberdorf (today part of Bopfingen , Oberalbkreis), moved from Mathias Kahn's private teaching institute to Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium in the 1880/81 school year and passed the Abitur exam here in 1889, with Claus Schilling , among others . He then studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated in the mid-1890s with a doctorate in medicine. med. from. In 1897 he married in Augsburg Klara Guggenheimer, who was born in Augsburg on 28 October 1877 daughter of goods dealer Ulrich Guggenheimer and his wife Fanny, born Einstein. Three children from this marriage were born in Oberdorf: Hermann (* April 4, 1897), Wilhelma Dorothea (* September 16, 1899; married to Jacob Friedrich Roos) and Bernhard, called Rudolf (* July 29, 1904, † July 18, 1995 in East Norwich, New York, USA).

Initially working as a district doctor in Oberdorf, Salomon Bär bought a house in Oos near Baden-Baden and opened a medical practice in 1909. In 1940 he was arrested and - presumably as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign - deported on October 22, 1940 to the Gurs assembly camp in southern France , where he died on November 16, 1940. His property was expropriated.

In 1949 the surviving children, Helma Roos, b. Baer, ​​Liverpool (Great Britain), Hermann Baer, ​​London (Great Britain) and Rudolf Baer, ​​Long Island (USA) the restitution of their father's house in Baden-Baden-Oos, Bahnhofstrasse 13, and a meadow from the Evangelical Church Community of Baden-Baden at Baden-Baden regional court.

Under the pseudonyms "Claus Baer", "Dr. Baer (Oberdorf) ”,“ Baer-Oberdorf ”or“ Baer-Oos ”published poems and aphorisms by Salomon Bär; among other things 1919 to 1930 in the magazine "Jugend" . The literary value is rated rather cautiously: "... at Baer-Oberdorf (1870–1940) [dominate] loyal ideals and good attitudes about linguistic creative power and original ideas". The saying “He who praises his religion has none” appears to remain topical.

Fonts

  • (Pseudonym: Claus Baer): roses and cypresses. Poems, 1890.
  • (Pseudonym: Baer-Oberdorf): Weather lights. Aphorisms. Munich 1909.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer (Ed.): Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, 6th edition, 1913.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathias Kahn, * 1826 in Hürben (today a district of Krumbach , district of Günzburg ), † 1904 in Munich. Wife Regine (Rahel), née Cohn (* 1834; † 1913); 3 sons, 4 daughters. From 1884 he also held a position as a teacher for Israelite religion at the Munich Wilhelmsgymnasium .
  2. ^ Registration documents (PMB): Munich, City Archives
  3. ↑ http://www.peterkefes.de/LehrKL.htm
  4. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1888/89. Munich 1889
  5. ↑ Alemannia Judaica - Working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring area: Oberdorf (city of Bopfingen, Ostalb district). Texts / reports on the Jewish history of the place. As of January 6, 2016
  6. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archives Freiburg, F 165/1 No. 163
  7. ↑ July 13, 1929, vol. 34, issue 29, p. 461; November 16, 1929, vol. 34, issue 47, p. 750; June 14, 1930, vol. 35, issue 25, p. 391
  8. ↑ Friedemann Spicker: The aphorism. Term and genre from the middle of the 18th century to 1912. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1997, p. 258
  9. ↑ quoted from: Hans-Jürgen Ferdinand: Denker Zweifler Atheisten: The Bible in the Crossfire. Publishing house Kern GmbH, Ilmenau 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bear, Solomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baer, ​​Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer (aphorist)
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1940
Place of death Gurs (France)