Siegmund Werner
Siegmund Werner (born October 5, 1867 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 5, 1928 in Zuckmantel , Czechoslovakia ) was an Austrian dentist and secretary to the Zionist politician Theodor Herzl .
Life
Werner grew up in Vienna as the son of a Viennese small trader. He attended high school and studied medicine at the University of Vienna . He joined the Jewish kadimah (student union) and hit the scale. He received his doctorate in 1896 and began to practice.
Werner had Theodor Herzl's book Der Judenstaat, published in 1896 . Attempt of a modern solution to the Jewish question read and became a supporter of Zionism. Herzl founded the newspaper Die Welt in May 1897 and, after a short publication, replaced SR Landau's editor-in-chief with Siegmund Werner in July 1897 . Werner remained, with a break of several years, editor-in-chief of the world until Herzl's death in 1904 and stood by his side through the fierce internal Zionist and internal Jewish conflicts.
Herzl used the newspaper as an organ for the dissemination and implementation of his ideas. The newspaper appeared in large editions for the Zionist World Congresses , at which Werner was also present. Herzl also got involved in the design of the newspaper: Just give potpurris ... Two columns of novels are enough. Werner not only wrote articles, but also published his own poetry in the newspaper. In mid-1899 Werner left the newspaper for financial reasons to take care of his medical practice and his family. Herzl had become the godfather of Werner's son Theodor. In January 1903 Werner was again editor-in-chief of Herzl's newspaper. When Herzl became seriously ill in June 1904, he withdrew to Edlach to control the events from there. Werner hurried to Edlach in July and took care of the formalities after Herzl's death on July 3rd.
After Herzl's death, Werner initially continued to run Die Welt . After the VII Zionist Congress in 1905, David Wolffsohn offered him the post of General Secretary of the World Zionist Organization , but Werner turned it down. He moved with his family to Iglau , where he practiced as a dentist. He continued to campaign for Zionism , now also in Moravia . In 1914 he was recruited as a military doctor and served over four years in the First World War.
Werner died in the health resort Zuckmantel and was buried in Iglau.
Works
- Ruth and other poems . 1903
literature
- Josef Fränkel : Dr. Siegmund Werner: an employee of Herzl . Letters from S. Werner and T. Herzl. Selected and edited by Josef Fränkel. Prague: Zionist Propaganda Station, 1938
- Article Werner, Siegmund , in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Volume 4,2, 1930, Col. 1412
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Chernivtsi 1925
Web links
- Die Welt , in: Jewish Encyclopedia , 1906
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal details partly from freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prohel/names/misc/werner.html
- ↑ Herzl to Werner, June 28, 1898, from Fränkel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Siegmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werner, Sigmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian dentist and secretary to the Zionist politician Theodor Herzl |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1928 |
| Place of death | Zuckmantel , Czechoslovakia |