Siegmund Weltlinger

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Siegmund Weltlinger (born March 29, 1886 in Hamburg , † May 18, 1974 in Berlin ) was a founding member and first Jewish chairman from 1949 to 1970 and honorary president from 1970 of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin . Weltlinger was also a CDU member.

Life

Weltlinger was born in Hamburg in 1886 and grew up in Kassel, where he did his military service after graduating from high school and then completed a banking apprenticeship. During the First World War , Siegmund Weltlinger initially served as a soldier at the front, in 1915 he was transferred to the central purchasing community of the Belgian civil administration as a financial specialist. Weltlinger returned to Berlin in November 1918. He married there in 1919.

In 1919 Siegmund Weltlinger sold the journal Börsenarchiv , which he had acquired in 1914 , and joined the Julius I. Mayer bank as a profit-sharing authorized signatory. In 1925 he left the bank and started his own business as a stockbroker. He practiced this profession until an order from the Reich Minister of Economics on June 20, 1938 prohibited all Jews from visiting the stock exchanges.

After the riots in November 1938 , Weltlinger was imprisoned for two months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . From March 1939 to February 1942 he worked for the Berlin Jewish Community and was responsible for the administration and collection of emigration, emigration and Theresienstadt home purchase taxes. Weltlinger and his wife Margarete managed to bring both children to safety by transporting children to England before the war broke out. In 1943 the couple went into hiding from the threat of deportation. The non-Jewish family Möhring, who were friends with them, hid them in their two-and-a-half-room apartment in Berlin until the end of the war.

After his first activity as advisor to the magistrate for Jewish affairs, Weltlinger joined the CDU in 1946. In November 1949 he was one of the founding members of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin eV, whose Jewish chairman he became and remained until 1970. From 1959 to 1967 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and finally President of the House of Representatives. In 1961 he was awarded the title of city elder.

tomb

Weltlinger died in Berlin in 1974, he was buried in an honorary grave of the city of Berlin in the cemetery of the Jewish community in Berlin on Heerstrasse .

Fonts

  • The brotherhood of religions . In: The way. Journal for Questions of Judaism, Vol. 1, 1946, No. 10, p. 3.
  • The importance of the "Jewish Affairs" section in the Advisory Council for Church Affairs of the City of Berlin . In: The way. Journal for Questions of Judaism, Vol. 1, 1946, No. 29, p. 3.

Honors

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 274 (331 pages).
  • Ulrich Werner Grimm : The Berlin Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. History (s) in the mirror of their sources. In: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin eV (Ed.): In conversation. 50 years of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin eV - A Festschrift , conception / editing: Ulrich Werner Grimm, Berlin 1999.
  • History workshop at the Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel / Peter Adamski (ed.): “I have never regretted being a German Jew!” Memories of Siegmund Weltlinger (1886–1974) , Kassel 1997.
  • Siegmund Weltlinger: Have you already forgotten? Experience report from the time of persecution , Berlin 1954.
  • Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin V. (Ed.): Memories of the youth and confessions of age of a German Jew. Lecture given by Siegmund Weltlinger on January 10, 1968 in the Amerika-Haus in front of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin eV , Berlin 1968.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jael Geis: Remaining - Life “afterwards” , undated, Berlin, p. 125, fn. 99
  2. ↑ Hartmut Berghoff / Hans Pohl: Geschichte des Finanzplatz Berlin , 2002 Frankfurt p. 203
  3. ↑ Bund der Antifaschisten Berlin-Pankow eV (Ed.): Jewish life in Pankow. A contemporary historical documentation , 1993 Berlin p. 168 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Weltlinger, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA, founding member of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1974
Place of death Berlin