Shlomo Kaddar

Shlomo Kaddar , until 1933 Friedrich Kessler (born September 1, 1913 in Münster , † February 5, 1987 in Israel ) was a German-Israeli diplomat.

Life

Kessler's father Siegfried was a teacher at the Marks-Haindorf-Stiftung's Jewish teachers' seminar in Münster and moved to Munich in 1926 , where he was the last Jewish headmaster during the Nazi era .

After graduating from high school, Friedrich Kessler studied agriculture at the Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen and emigrated to Palestine in 1933 after a year in Hachschara in Deventer . Now Shlomo Kaddar, he worked in a kibbutz , was commander of the Hagana from 1938 to 1945 and then worked for the Jewish Agency until the state of Israel was founded in 1948 . From 1949 he worked in the Israeli diplomatic service, initially in Paris and Brussels. When Arieh Kubovi , Israel's ambassador in Prague and Warsaw, after the Slansky trial in 1952 for Persona non grata was declared, he remained in Prague as charge d'affaires . Kaddar was accredited as ambassador to normalize diplomatic relations there in 1956 and returned to the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 1957. After the Six Day War , he moved to the city administration of Jerusalem in 1967 .

Shlomo Kaddar's mother Selma Kessler, b. Weinberg and his father were deported from the assembly camp in Berg am Laim to the Theresienstadt ghetto on March 13, 1943 , and became victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz . The older sister Henny also emigrated to Palestine in 1936, brother Karl to Denmark in 1939, from where he fled to Sweden in 1943 .

literature

• Gisela Möllenhoff, Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer: Jewish families in Münster 1918 to 1945 . Biographical Lexicon, Münster; Westphalian Steam boat, 1995 ISBN 3-929586-48-7

Web links

• Israel Resumes Normal Diplomatic Relations with Prague , JTA, July 13, 1956

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arye Lê'ôn Qûbôvî (Aryeh Leon Kubovy) (1896-1966) was still ambassador to Argentina and director in Yad Vashem , dnb .