Ulrich Föhse

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Ulrich Föhse (born January 1, 1944 in Wuppertal ; † April 12, 2012 ibid.) Was a German historian , headmaster and city ​​councilor .

Life

In the city council elections in Wuppertal on November 9, 1969, Föhse obtained a seat for the CDU in the city council. He was re-elected in 1975, 1979, 1984 and 1989.

Since the early 1980s he has amassed an important collection of hundreds of letters, photos and other documents that were entrusted to him by former Jewish citizens or their families who or their relatives were expelled from Wuppertal during the National Socialist era.

His widow Adelheid Föhse bequeathed this collection to the Old Synagogue Meeting Center in 2013 , where it is being evaluated with the aim of making it at least partially accessible to the public. A first publication appeared in 2018.

Föhse initiated this collection by writing to hundreds of former Jewish residents of Wuppertal all over the world and asking for more detailed information and documents. Through further correspondence and visits, closer personal relationships gradually developed from many of these contacts.

In addition to building up the collection, Föhse took the first steps in important publications towards an academic analysis of the Jewish history of Wuppertal in the 20th century.

Föhse has received various awards for his work, including the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Publications

  • Ulrich Föhse, First human, then lower human - The path of the Jewish Wuppertal people into the Holocaust, in: Klaus Goebel (ed.), Wuppertal in the time of National Socialism, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1984, p. 65 ff.
  • Ulrich Föhse, Die Wahls in Barmen. In: Association of meeting places for the Old Synagogue Wuppertal eV (ed.): This is where Ms. Antonie Giese lived - The History of the Jews in the Bergisches Land, Wuppertal 1997, pp. 44–47.
  • Ulrich Föhse, Jews in Wuppertal - a tragic episode, in: Lothar Bossle (ed.), Effect of the Creator, Würzburg 1986
  • Ulrike Schrader (ed.), Answers from Emigration. Letters and other sources of Jewish refugees from Wuppertal in the collection Föhse , ISBN 978-3-940199-18-8

literature

  • Ulrike Schrader , (obituary) Ulrich Föhse, in: Geschichte im Wuppertal, vol. 21/2012, p. 128 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wuppertal election database. (No longer available online.) In: wuppertal.de. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017 ; accessed on January 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertal.de
personal data
SURNAME Foehse, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, headmaster and city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2012
Place of death Wuppertal