Samuel Billigheimer

Stumbling block for Samuel Billigheimer

Samuel Billigheimer (born August 3, 1889 in Feudenheim , † May 17, 1983 in Melbourne ) was a German educator and writer .

Life

Cheapheimer came as the son of the cantor and religion teacher Karl Billigheimer (1864–1931) and his wife Karoline, b. Hess (1869–1943) was born. In 1907 he passed the Abitur at the Realgymnasium in Mannheim. He then studied Latin, English and French in Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1911. From 1912 he was active in the Baden school service, from January 1914 at the Mannheim Real-Gymnasium, the Lessing School. During the First World War he worked as a military interpreter in the Sennelager prisoner of war camp . Cheapheimer belonged to the Philologists Association and the German Democratic Party . He was a member of the Synagogue Council of the Jewish Community of Mannheim and a member of the regional synod and, since 1931, chairman of the Liberal-Jewish Association of Mannheim. In 1921 he married Gertrud, born in Mannheim. Feitler (1896–1988), the couple adopted two sons.

Due to the law enacted by the National Socialists to restore the civil service , Billigheimer was given leave of absence in July 1933. His doctorate was withdrawn. He then made himself available to the teaching house of the Jewish community in Mannheim. As part of the November pogroms in 1938 , Billigheimer was deported to the Dachau concentration camp . In March 1939 he managed to emigrate to Australia . In Melbourne he taught German, French and Latin at the Anglican Caulfield Grammar School for more than 20 years and wrote numerous articles on German and Jewish intellectual history. Cheapheimer was also director of the Jorak Hebrew Center until 1964 and gave numerous guest lectures.

A stumbling block was laid for Samuel Billigheimer at Rathenaustraße 1 in Mannheim.

Honors

• Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded on August 3, 1969.

Fonts

• The religious life of Sully Prudhommes: genetically represented , Freiburg i. Br .: Poppen, 1911.
• A little reading [poems] , 2nd edition, Melbourne 1961.
• Voices of Our Lives: New Set of Poems , Melbourne 1963.
• Commemoration Lecture on Martin Buber . In: Milla wa-Milla: the Australian bulletin of comparative religion, 1965, pp. 23-31.
• On the Conflicts of Jewish Liturgy in the First Decade of our Century . In: Milla wa-Milla: The Australian Bulletin of Comparative Religion, 1970, pp. 47-68.
• Karl Billigheimer . In: Mannheimer Hefte, 1972, Heft 1, pp. 38-40.

literature

• Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 with 52 biographies , 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1984, pp. 81–82. ISBN 3-17-009646-X
• Lena Burg: Dr. Samuel Billigheimer (1889–1983) - teacher in Mannheim and Melbourne . In: Wilhelm Kreuz, Volker von Offenberg (ed.): Jewish students of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim. Portraits from two decades, Mannheim 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 179–185.