Werner Sander

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Werner Jacob Sander (born August 5, 1902 in Breslau ; died July 21, 1972 in Leipzig ) was a chasan and choirmaster , founder of the Leipzig Synagogue Choir and member of the Association of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime (VVN).

Life

Werner Jacob Sander was born in Breslau in 1902 as the son of the Jewish businessman Berthold Sander and his wife Martha, née. Ellguther was born. He received musical training in the synagogue choir. He later took up music studies at the Wroclaw Conservatory . He then worked as a private music teacher, but also conducted several choirs in Wroclaw. On October 31, 1929, he married the accountant and native Elsbeth Elfriede Ida Woyan in Breslau.

After the seizure of power by the Nazi Party , he was a professional disqualification occupied. In the following years he was only allowed to lead the choir of the Wroclaw Jewish Cultural Association . He was also allowed to continue working as a teacher in Jewish schools. And the Jewish schools were banned, had Sander in 1943 in the camps of Kurzbach and Grünthal - of both satellite camp concentration camp Gross-Rosen , forced labor do. His parents perished in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he came to Thuringia in November 1945, where he worked as a music teacher at a school in Meiningen . He also led the Meiningen choir community. In 1950 he was appointed cantor at the Israelite religious community in Leipzig. Here he conducted the synagogue choir. For non-religious people and those unfamiliar with Hebrew , he published texts for the Sabbath and the Jewish festivals in phonetic script and German translation. From 1954 Werner Sander also worked as a cantor in Dresden and in 1962 was appointed "Oberkantor". Originally created in 1951 as a chamber choir, the Leipzig Oratorio Choir, which he conducted in 1962, emerged from this, which then received attention as the Leipzig Synagogal Choir . Since then, Sander has lived in Leipzig as a cantor and religion teacher. The community leader Eugen Gollomb, who became the prayer leader of the Leipzig Jewish community after Sander's death, and the Berlin cantor Leo Roth supported him in organizing the Sabbath celebrations . Numerous performances of Sanders have been preserved for posterity through recordings, including some with Leo Roth.

His grave in the New Israelite Cemetery in Leipzig

Werner Sander joined the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime. Sander stood out particularly when he, together with the clergymen Bruno Theek (Protestant), Karl Fischer ( Catholic ) and Ernst Lewek (Protestant), signed an appeal “To all who trust God!” In which these clergymen to resist rearmament West Germany and the associated deepening of the division of Germany .

literature

  • Elke Reuter, Detlef Hansel: The short life of the VVN from 1947 to 1953: The history of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in the Soviet Zone and GDR. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929161-97-4 , p. 575
  • Tina Frühauf: Werner Sander “to finally consolidate the peace”. A great representative of Jewish music in the GDR. Jewish miniatures vol. 213. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95565-237-1

Individual evidence

  1. a b Registry Office Breslau I: Birth register . No. 2138/1902.
  2. ^ Registry office Breslau I: marriage register . No. 1231/1929.
  3. Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved July 20, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.juden-in-sachsen.de
  4. Festschrift 50 Years of the Leipziger Synagogalchor (with illus. By Leo Roth and Werner Sander) (PDF file; 3.1 MB)