History of the Jews in Cologne
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The history of the
The Roman Age
Cologne was founded and established in the 1st century AD, as the
Judaism was recognized as a
"We allow all town councils to appoint through general law, Jewish people in the Curia. To give them a certain compensation for the previous rules, we let that always two or three of them enjoy the privilege not to be taken to any office."
Archaeological finds indicate the presence of people from the Middle East at around this period, and among them there were Syrians, as is proved by an Aramaic inscription dug up in 1930. In another document, from 341, it is recorded that the synagogue was provided with the emperor's privilege. These decrees of Constantine remained for some centuries the only accounts of the existence of a Jewish community in Cologne.[5]
Middle Ages
Under the Frankish, Saxon and Salian kings
The region was occupied by the
The number of Jews in the community during the last quarter of the 11th century was not less than 600. The markets of Cologne had attracted many Jewish visitors who had partly stayed. Italian Jews are mentioned in the stories about the Crusaders in Cologne. The fact that the Jewish community was important is proved further by the statement in these Hebrew reports that out of Cologne there went forth "our brethren scattered over the earth support for their life and correct words of judgment". It means that the community was the center of Jewish life for all the communities of the area.[7]
Crusades
During the
In the 12th and 13th century the antisemitic attitude of the town citizens became stronger. In 1146 other Jewish people were killed near Königswinter by a mob of furious Christians, just after the beginning of the Second Crusade.[10] Also in Andernach,[11] Altenahr,[12] Bonn[13] and Lechenich[14] Jews were killed and their houses plundered. These events are presumably to be associated with a wave of persecutions in 1287/88.[15] Violent assaults on Jews of Cologne are not reported in this period. Following the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215, all Jews were obliged to display on their clothing a clear sign they were not Christians.[16]
Medieval pogroms in Cologne
An early pogrom against had taken place after the Battle of Worringen on 8 June 1288, when the defeated archbishop of Cologne had been imprisoned. For days afterwards a persecution of Jews swept through the surroundings of Cologne.[17] In 1300, a wall was built around the Jewish Quarter, presumably paid for by the Jewish community itself, though the permission of the Archbishop would have been required.[18]
In 1317
Altogether the Jews of Cologne between 1096 and 1349 appear indeed to have been relatively safe regarding life and physical condition
From 1266 the Cologne Jews had the exclusive privilege of lending money, which was forbidden to Christians by Church law. Decisions between 1252 and 1320 address the legal status, protection, and taxation of the Cologne Jews.[26]
The Archbishop Engelbert II von Falkenburg had the Judenprivileg carved in stone on the outside of the cathedral treasure-room.[27] In the years towards 1320 there are definite indications of religious hostility directed by the clergy of Cologne against the Jews for religious reasons, particularly roused by the privileges of the Cologne Jews. The reason for this can be seen in a change of the status of the Schutzjude. The Cologne clergy received no more profit from the loan transactions of the Jews. Increasingly the town council participated in the business, and this provoked additional frictions between the Archbishop and the Council. In the struggle for power, the Cologne Jews could also be used to a certain extent as a means of pressuring their clients. The protectors of the Cologne Jews, the Archbishop and the King, could sell the Schutzjude. There was a legal fight between the clergy, the king and the Cologne Council, so the council could deprive these rivals of a profitable source of revenue if they got rid of the Jews. Additionally some debts could be cancelled. Council decisions document the worsening climate between Christians and Jews.
Preparation of the pogrom
The
There is a letter of the
Unlike most other anti-Jewish persecutions at the time, the pogrom in Cologne was not spontaneous and did not originate among the lower ranks of Cologne's population. Rather, it appears to have been premeditated, as there is clear evidence of the involvement of the leading social figures, or at least some of them.
The
Night of Bartholomew and its consequences
The actual outcome of the pogrom is not well known. In the course of St. Bartholomew's Night in 1349 the Jewish quarter near the town-hall (Rathaus) was attacked, after which killing, plundering of Jewish properties, and arson followed. Fugitives were pursued and struck down. Though partly contradictory of each other, many sources testify to the calamity. Some report that the Jews themselves set fire to their houses so as not to fall into the hands of the looters.[35] Another version has it that the Jews burned themselves in their synagogue, which is rather improbable. Archeological excavations in the area of the medieval Jewish quarter have suggested that the synagogue itself was standing without damage after the night, but that it was plundered later.[36] In its escape from the riot one family buried its belongings and merchandise. The hoard of coins was discovered during excavations in 1954 and is now exhibited in the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum.[37]
The account of the chronicler Gilles Li Muisis, which tells of a regular battle of the citizenry against more than 25,000 Jews and credits the victory to the stratagem of a butcher, is not considered reliable.[38] Nevertheless, Li Muisis' account coined the term Judenschlacht (the Jews' Battle) for the events of that night. Equally unlikely is the involvement of the Flagellants who, according to some sources, were supposedly present in Cologne in 1349.[39] Throughout the proceedings, the council refused to act. Nevertheless, after the violence had died down, the council and the new archbishop Willem van Gennep condemned the pogrom with the utmost severity. The names of the real wire-pullers and of the violent invaders of the Jewish quarter remained unknown. It can only be definitively stated that the council disclaimed any responsibility for the riots: a declaration of the council laid the blame on an out-of-town mob followed by only a few no-accounts from Cologne."[40] A few of the Jewish survivors expelled from the town looked for refuge across the Rhine. Around ten years after the pogrom of 1349, Jewish settlements are documented in Andernach and Siegburg.
The Jews can be documented to have returned only in 1369, although Archbishop Boemund II of Saarbrücken had already tried to enforce the return of the Jews on the city during his reign (1354 to 1361).[41] Nevertheless, it was only under Engelbert III von der Mark and particularly under his coadjutor Cuno of Falkenstein that the strained relation between the archbishop and the municipality had improved enough for the protection of Jews to seem reasonably assured. There is proof that by 1372 a small Jewish community had again sprung up in Cologne.[42][43]
At the request of Archbishop Frederick the Jews were admitted to the town and obtained a temporary protection privilege for ten years. To this, however, the Council attached some conditions. For the privilege of admission there was a tax between 50 and 500
Emigration
In 1424, Jews were banned from the town "for eternity". Following the medieval pogroms and expulsion of 1424, many Jews of Cologne emigrated to central or northern European countries like
The ban on Jewish settlement in Cologne was withdrawn at the end of the 18th century. A new Jewish community came into existence under the French administration. At the beginning of the Modern Age the area of the Jewish quarter was rebuilt and the previous inhabitants forgotten.
After the destruction of the community during
Cultural life in Middle Ages
In Cologne there was one of the largest Jewish library of Middle Ages. After the massacre of the Jews in York, England in 1190, a number of Hebrew books from there were brought to and sold in Cologne. There are a number of remarkable manuscripts and illuminations prepared by and for Jews of Cologne during the 12th to the 15th centuries and now kept in various libraries and museums throughout the world.[47]
Distinguished Cologne Jews
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Cologne was a center of Jewish learning, and the "wise of Cologne" are frequently mentioned in rabbinical literature.[48] A characteristic of the Talmudic authorities of that city was their liberality. Many liturgical poems still in the Ashkenazic ritual were composed by poets of Cologne.
Here are the names of many rabbis and scholars of the 11th and 12th centuries: the legendary Amram, traditional founder of the Talmudic school in the 10th century; R. Jacob ben Yaḳḳar, disciple of Gerson Meor ha-Golah (1050); the liturgist Eliakim ben Joseph; Eliezer ben Nathan (1070–1152), the chronicler of the First Crusade; the poet Eliezer ben Simson, who, together with the last named, took part in the famous assembly of French and German rabbis about the mid-12th century; the Tosafist Samuel ben Natronai and his son Mordecai; the liturgist Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi (d. 1200); Uri ben Eliakim (mid-12th century); Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn (b. 1132), the chronicler of the Second Crusade. The last lost at Cologne, in 1171, his son Eliakim, a promising youth, who was murdered in the street. His tombstone is still to be seen in the cemetery of Cologne.
Among the rabbis and scholars of the 13th century were: Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi; Uri ben Joel ha-Levi; Jehiel ben Uri, father of R. Asher; Isaac ben Simson (martyred in 1266); Isaac ben Abraham, brother of the Tosafist Simson ben Abraham of Sens (martyred in 1266 at Sinzig); R. Isaiah ben Nehemiah (also martyred in 1266 at Sinzig); the liturgist Eliezer ben Ḥayyim; Ḥayyim ben Jehiel (d. 1314) and Asher ben Jehiel (b. c. 1250; d. 1327); Yaḳḳar ben Samuel ha-Levi; Reuben ben Hezekiah of Boppard; Abraham ben Samuel; Judah ben Meïr; Samuel ben Joseph; Ḥayyim ben Shaltiel; Nathan ben Joel ha-Levi; Jacob Azriel ben Asher ha-Levi; Meïr ben Moses; Eliezer ben Judah ha-Kohen, most of whom are known as commentators on the Bible.
The rabbis and scholars of the 14th century include: Samuel ben Menahem, Talmudist and liturgist; Jedidiah ben Israel, disciple of Meïr of Rothenburg; and Mordecai ben Samuel. These three are called in the municipal sources "Gottschalk", "Moyter", and "Süsskind". The rabbi who officiated at the time of the banishment was Jekuthiel ben Moses Möln ha-Levi.
In Middle Ages there were in Cologne the following buildings, synagogues, mikvehs, schools, hospices and cemeteries:
Judenbüchel
In 1174 a document of Saint Engelbert, at the time provost of the monastery of Saint Severin in Cologne, mentions that thirty-eight years previously Knight Ortliv had given back five jugerum of land that he had received from the monastery as a fief near the Jews cemetery, and the land had been let to the Jews against a yearly payment of four denarii and Ortliv could not have any claim on it.[49] In 1266 Archbishop Engelbert II von Falkenburg ensured the lawful management and undisturbed usage of their cemetery on Bonner Strasse. It was located outside the walls of Cologne towards the south near Severinstores, called Judenbüchel or Toten Juden. This name remained to the area also after the removal of the cemetery until the construction of the supermarket in this place.
The cemetery measured 29,000 square meters. In 1096 Salomon ben Simeon mentions the tombstones of the Jews buried there. In 1146 Rabbi Simeon of Trier was buried in the cemetery by the leaders of the Cologne Jewish community. The earliest tombstone still in existence dates from the year 1152. After 1349 the tombstones were considered owner-less; some of them were torn out of their places and used by Archbishop William de Gunnep for the construction of the fortress of Lechenig or in Huelchrath. After 1372 the Jews of Cologne again were granted the use of the cemetery and it was used until 1693 mainly by the Jews of Deutz.[50]
Tombstones of 1323
By excavations of the area of the Cologne Rathaus in 1953 two fully conserved tombstones were found on the northwest corner of the building in a large bomb crater. They probably came from the Jewish cemetery of Judenbüchel and were used as building material. The inscription of the tombstone of Rachel says: "Rachel, daughter of R. Schneior, died on Tuesday, the 16 Elul of the year 83 of the sixth millennium. Her soul be tied in the union of eternal life. Amen. Sela"
Modern times
After the expulsion
The few Jews who remained in the city began to re-establish a community in right-Rhenish Deutz, whose rabbi called himself later "Country Rabbi of Cologne" (Landesrabbiner). Rabbi Vives was known by this title during the mid-15th century.
In 1634, there were 17 Jews in Deutz, in 1659 there were 24 houses inhabited by Jews and in 1764 the community consisted of 19 people. Towards the end of the 18th century the community still consisted of 19 people.[51]
The community was located in a small Jewish "quarter" in the area of Mindener and Hallenstraße. A synagogue, first mentioned in 1426, was damaged by the immense ice drift of the Rhine in 1784. The mikveh associated with the synagogue probably still exists under the embankment of the Brückenrampe (Deutzer Bridge).[52] This first synagogue was then replaced by a new small building on the west end of Freiheit, the today's street Deutzer Freiheit (1786–1914).
The Jews of the Deutz community lived like all the others of the
During the construction of the
Deutz Cemetery
In contrast to the building evidence in Innenstadt, the history of the Jewish communities outside the city center is revealed above all through the remains of the Jewish cemeteries. There are right-Rhenish Jewish cemetery in Mülheim, "Am Springborn", in Zündorf between "Hasenkaul" and the "Gartenweg", and one in Deutz im "Judenkirchhofsweg".[56] The last was given to the Jews of Deutz by Archbishop Joseph Clemens of Bavaria in 1695 as a rented land. The first burials took place in 1699.[57] When in 1798 the Jews were again permitted to settle within the old city walls of Cologne, the cemetery was also used by this community until 1918.
Comeback
Until the French annexion of Cologne in 1794, following the French Revolution, no Jew was permitted to settle in Cologne. The Napoleonic Code included equality before the law, rights of individual freedom and the separation of church and state. The Government Commissioner Rudler, in his proclamation of June 21, 1798 to the inhabitants of the conquered territory announced: "Whatever smacks of slavery is abolished. Only before God will you have to give an accounting of your religious beliefs. Your civic rights will no longer depend upon your creeds. Whatever these are, they will be tolerated without distinctions and enjoy equal protection."[58]
A few months earlier, Joseph Isaac of Mühlheim on the Rhine had sought civic rights from the Magistracy of Cologne. Since he presented favorable evidence of his previous conduct and also proved that he would not become a burden to the city because of poverty, permission was granted to him on March 16, 1798, to settle in Cologne. The rest of his requests for civic rights were refused because French regulations had not yet come into force.[58] He was followed by Samuel Benjamin Cohen of Bonn, son of the Chief Rabbi Simha Brunem. At the same time, the 17-year-old Salomon Oppenheim Jr. moved his businesses from Bonn to Cologne. He belonged to the families who built the first Cologne community of modern times. Oppenheim Jr. traded with cotton, linen, oil, wine and tobacco but his main activity was banking. Already in 1810 his bank was the second largest in Cologne after "Abraham Schaffhausen". Within the new Cologne Jewish community, Oppenheim Jr. took an outstanding position in the social and political life. He was in charge of the community school but he was also the deputy of the Cologne community, who sent him to the congress of Jewish Notables in Paris in 1806–1807.[59]
A modest hall of prayer was built inside the court of the former Monastery of St. Clarissa in Glockengasse. The land was bought by Benjamin Samuel Cohen, one of the Jewish communal leaders in the early 1800s, taking advantage of a property sale by the French tax-office.[60] Even if in those times a row of Jewish business people experienced an economic and social rise—Oppenheim Jr. was elected unanimously to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce and had for the first time as a Jew a public office—their legal status was insecure.
The Prussian Jews Edict of March 11, 1812 did not apply everywhere. It lasted until the Prussian Jewish Law of 1847 and finally until 1848, with the adoption of the constitutional charter for the
Due to the growth of the community and the disrepair of the prayer hall in the former Monastery of St. Clarissa, the Oppenheim family donated a new synagogue building at Glockengasse 7. The number of the members of the community was now about of 1,000 adults. While in Medieval times the "quarter" had been built close to the synagogue in Cologne "Judengasse", by now the Jews lived in a decentralized area among the rest of the population. Many lived in the new periphery quarters near the city walls.[62]
Due to further growth of the Jewish population, more new constructions followed the one in Glockengasse. The orthodox synagogue in St. Apern Straße was dedicated on January 16, 1884; the liberal synagogue in Roonstraße was dedicated on March 22, 1899.
In the face of historical experiences in Europe, the Jews started initiatives to create their own state. The head office of the Zionist Organization for Germany was based in Richmodstraße near Neumarkt square, Cologne, and was founded by lawyer Max Bodenheimer together with merchant David Wolffsohn. Bodeheimer was president until 1910 and worked for Zionism with Theodor Herzl. The "Kölner Thesen" developed under Bodenheimer for Zionism were — with few adjustments — adopted as the "Basel Program" by the first Zionist Congress.[63] The goal of the organization was to obtain the foundation of a distinct state of Israel in Palestine for all the Jews of the world.
The synagogue in Glockengasse
After the constant growth of the community the hall of prayer at Glockengasse was overloaded. A donation of the Cologne banker Abraham Oppenheim of around 600,000 thalers allowed the construction of a new synagogue. The project was won by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, leading architect of the Cathedral of Cologne, who designed a building in Moorish style. The new synagoge was inaugurated after four years of construction in August 1861. The inner and outside design was to remind the bloom of Jewish culture during 11th-century Moorish Spain. The new synagogue had a façade of light sandstone with red horizontal stripes as well as oriental minaret and a cupola covered with copper plates. The ornaments in the inside were inspired by the Alhambra of Granada. The new synagogue, which was valued positively by Cologne people, had seats for 226 men and 140 women.
While set on fire in November 1938,[64] the rolls of the Torah of 1902 could be saved, thanks to the Cologne priest Gustav Meinertz. After the war they were placed in a glass cabinet in Roonstrasse Synagogue. After a restoration, carried out in Jerusalem in 2007, they are now used again in the liturgies in Roonstrasse Synagogue, rebuilt after the war.
The orthodox synagogue in St. Apern-Straße
The St. Aper Straße Synagogue already existed during the middle of the 18th century. It was located in a mixed-use area, appreciated by affluent citizens. There were many exquisite antique shops, in which mostly Jewish owners sold expensive furniture and jewels. In 1884, these inhabitants built a synagogue of the orthodox community "Adass Jeschurun". The last rabbi was Isidor Caro who died in
In the associated Jawne School, a Jewish school, there were courses from 1919 to 1941. It was the first and only Jewish gymnasium in the Rhineland.
The liberal synagogue in Roonstraße
By the end of 1899, the Jewish community in Cologne had grown to 9,745 members. Already in 1893, the community had bought a piece of land on Roonstraße — opposite the Königsplatz. In 1894, the Representative Assembly of the city voted for a grant of 40,000 marks from the city treasury. It was estimated that the cost of the new building would be about 550,000 marks. To cover this sum a substantial loan was made with the "Prussian Zentralbodenkredit Aktiengesellshaft".[65] The synagogue was finished in 1899 and had places for 763 men and 587 women in the gallery. A historical photo was considered worth to be put in the photo archive of the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem.[66] The final Rabbi of the Roonstrasse Synagogue before the war was Rabbi Dr. Adolf Kober. The structure has been seriously damaged during the war but it was decided to rebuild it. The reopened synagogue was dedicated on September 20, 1959.[67]
The synagogue in Reischplatz in Deutz
The last synagogue was built in Reischplatz in Deutz. The building was dedicated in 1915 and, after the damages of the last war, was rebuilt in another form and with a new usage, as there was no more Jewish community in Deutz. A commemorative plaque remembers the Deutz community and its last synagogue.[68]
The synagogue in Mülheim
The first synagogue of the community of
Jewish community in Zündorf
The synagogue in Niederzündorf was at the beginning a prayer room, that had not enough space after the strong growth of the community in the 19th century. In 1882 a new building was completed, and the "Zündorfer Pfarrchronik" wrote:
- "The Jewish synagogue has been finished after much effort, the ceremony took place with the participation of many foreign Jews."
The land (today Hauptstr. 159) was sold and partly donated to the community by two Jewish business people from there, "Lazarus Meyer" und "Simon Salomon". The Pfarrchronik also wrote:
- "The Jews built a synagogue, that is a room, a chamber that served as a synagogue. The offering from the Jews of the Rhine province has supposedly reached a meager result."[69]
Other buildings and meeting houses
- Jewish asylum for ill and old people in Silvanstraße (Severinsviertel), later Ottostraße, Ehrenfeld.
- Community and meeting houses located in which?]
Jewish cemetery at Melaten
It is not clear in which year a Jewish cemetery was created as part of the large cemetery of Melaten. Until 1829, only Catholics could be buried there, while Protestants were buried in the old Geusen cemetery in Weyertal. The Jewish community buried its dead people until 1918 in Deutz and then in Bocklemünd. However, in 1899 also a section of Melaten cemetery was reserved to the Jews.[70] In 1899 there was the first burial. A part of the piece of land bordering a high wall can still be seen from the Melatengürtel street. In 1928, the cemetery was violated for the first time, in 1938 the mortuary chapel was destroyed.[71]
Deckstein cemetery
Located in
Integration and business community
The Jewish business community was optimistic for the future. In 1891, the merchant Leonhard Tietz opened a department store on Hohe Straße. The banks of Seligmann and the Oppenheim family flourished. The store of textile wholesale company "Gebrüder Bing und Söhne" opened on the Neumarkt. Exquisite shops of Jewish merchants were situated around the cathedral on Hohe Straße and Schildergasse.
By the middle of the 19th century, Cologne developed into a scientific, economic and cultural centre, and the Jewish community had a strong part in this development. After Jewish citizens had taken their place in the financial and commercial world, and while being respected and recognized most places, they also tried to contribute in the forming of the political opinion. For example, Moses Hess and Karl Marx in 1842 wrote in the newly established "Rheinische Zeitung". They were among the leading contributors to this newspaper, dedicated to "politics, business and trade". In 1863, Hess, in his article "Rome and Jerusalem", tried to present a possibility of a resettlement of Jews in Palestine. His work, however, found little approval, with Jews in Germany, especially in large cities like Cologne, considering Germany as their country of origin and home.[73]
First World War and Weimar Republic
Just at the beginning of the
Nazism and World War II
With the takeover of the political power by the Nazis repression against the Jewish citizens of Cologne started again. In spring 1933, 15,000 inhabitants declared on the population census that they were Jewish. There were 6 synagogues and other community and meeting places in Cologne, which were all violated in the Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938 and were completely destroyed after the war, until the reconstruction of the synagogue in Roonstraße.
Antisemitism in Cologne
Nazi and antisemitic attitudes were prevalent in Cologne's population and society, just as in the rest of Germany. After the war, politicians like Konrad Adenauer and writers like Heinrich Böll claimed that the people of Cologne demonstrated a spirit of defiance[75] and sovereignty in the face of Nazism, stating that "no tyrant, no dictator can feel well in Cologne".[76] A few residents of Cologne did openly oppose Nazism and hid Jews, such as the Ehrenfeld Group, but in general the persecution of Cologne Jews was well-accepted. Most plays and performances put on by the Hänneschen Theater[77] and the Cologne Carnival at the time displayed clear antisemitism.[78] Carnival carriages in the Rosenmontag (Shrove Monday) parade showed antisemitic themes and a carnival song mocked the Jews: "Metz dä Jüdde es jetz Schluß, Se wandere langsam uss. (...) Mir laachen uns für Freud noch halv kapott. Der Itzig und die Sahra trecke fott" (translation: "The Jews are finished, they slowly leave … We laugh our heads off at Freud, the Itzik and the Sarah run away".)[79]
Aryanization
Phase One: 1933-1938
The first phase, between January 1933 and November 1938, was misleadingly called the "voluntary" Aryanization. Nazi officials, eager to maintain a legal veneer to the seizure of Jewish property, pretended that transfer of property from a Jewish to a non-Jewish owner was "voluntary".[81]
One process through which Jews were "convinced" to give their businesses over was the advertisement of German businesses as such on the one hand, with ads and flyers declaring "German Business" or "German Produce", and on the other, through painting stars of David and hate messages on the walls or windows of Jews businesses. Local Nazi groups published lists of companies with Jewish owners to incite persecution and boycotts to drive them out of business.
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis organized a boycott of Jewish businesses, blocking entrance to Jewish shops in Cologne. The Jewish merchant Richard Stern,[citation needed] who had fought in the first world war,[citation needed] distributed a leaflet against the boycott [citation needed] and stood next to the SA guard posted outside his door, proudly wearing his Iron Cross [citation needed]. Customers stopped shopping in Jewish-owned businesses and owners lost their means of existence. Newspapers filled announcements about bankruptcies and acquisitions of Jewish companies.[82]
Jewish lawyers and doctors were also targeted by the anti-Jewish boycott. On 31 March the SA and SS assaulted Jewish lawyers in the Justice building on Reichensperger Platz in Cologne. Judges and lawyers were arrested, mistreated, then loaded on garbage trucks and taken around the city.[83]
In October 1935 Jews were excluded from the benefits of the "Winterhelp of the German People", and a "Jewish Winterhelp" was organized as an autonomous organization. It collected money,food, clothing, furniture and fuel and in winter 1937/38 the organisation supported 2,300 indigent people, a fifth of Jewish community.[84]
According to the U.S. Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia, "By 1938, the combination of Nazi terror, propaganda, boycott, and legislation was so effective that some two thirds of these Jewish-owned enterprises were out of business or sold to non-Jews. Jewish owners, often desperate to emigrate or to sell a failing business, accepted a selling price that was only 20 or 30 percent of the actual value of each business."[85] Cologne followed this trend.[86]
Phase Two: 1938-1945
The second phase of Aryanization started after November 1938, with the Nazis openly seizing Jewish homes, businesses, and properties throughout Germany by force.[85] In Cologne, over 735 houses and properties belonging to Jewish owners were confiscated by Nazis and transferred to non-Jews, between 1938 and 1944.[87]
Examples of Aryanization in Cologne
Jewish-owned shops along with their owners were destroyed[88] in preparation for the deportation and mass murder of Cologne's Jews in the Holocaust. Businesses both large and small were transferred from Jewish owners to non-Jewish owners in both phases of Aryanizations. A few example include:
- Brenner, the second largest photo accessories company in Germany, located in the Hohe Straße in Cologne, was forced to sell to a non-Jewish owner after the arrest of his owner, forced to sign a prepared purchase agreement while in prison in the presence of Gestapo and NSBO representatives on June 26, 1933.[89]
- Bankhaus Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie[90]
- Leonhard Tietz AG, Hohe Strasse
- Kaufhaus Julius Bluhm, Venloer Strasse[91]
- numerous Jewish shops on the Hohe Straße and Schildergasse, where one in three shops were aryanized.
- "Deka-Schuh, Leopold Dreyfuß" in Ehrenfeld,
- Neckties wholesaler "Herbert Fröhlich" in the Streitzeuggasse
- ,Butcher and snack bar "Katz-Rosenthal",
- Fashion boutique "Michel" (later Jacobi)
- "Bamberger" (later Hansen).[92]
After World War II, many Cologne businesses ended up owning property that had been Aryanized from pre-war Jewish owners. In 2009, the publisher M. DuMont Schauberg took the German weekly Der Spiegel to court for suggesting that the publisher and family knew that it was acquiring three properties Aryanized from Cologne Jews, and Der Spiegel retracted the article.[93][94]
Ehrenfeld
Although already in 1925 Cologne was the capital of the NSDAP-Gau of Cologne-Aachen, many didn't realize the growing radicalness of this party. Still in 1927 the synagogue in Körnerstraße was built as the last construction of the Jewish community of Cologne by the architect Robert Stern. It was dedicated to "the glory of God, the truth of faith and the peace of mankind".[95] The synagogue had a small vestibule surrounded with arches. The prayer room had 200 seats for men and 100 for women. The latter were located in a women's gallery, as in many other places. The Jewish population in Ehrenfeld reached 2000 people. The synagogue had also a ritual bath, that was discovered through excavations in Körnerstraße.[96]
A plaque in Körnerstraße remembers the destroyed synagogue and its attached religion school: "In this place there was the Synagogue of Ehrenfelder, connected to a Religion school for girls and boys, built in 1927 according to the plan of Architect Robert Stern, destroyed in the day after the pogrom of Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938"
At the place of the synagogue there is now an
Müngersdorf concentration camp
After the organized and controlled destruction of lives, properties and establishments in the whole country, the antisemitic policies intensified also in Cologne. Jewish children could not attend any German school. By 1 January 1939 all the Jews were excluded from the economic life and constrained to forced labor. They were expropriated, renters were deprived of rent control.
In total, more than 40% of the Jewish population emigrated before September 1939. In May 1939 the Jewish population was 8,406 with another 2,360 Mischlinge, persons of mixed Jewish-non-Jewish ancestry. When war came in September 1939, the remainder of Cologne Jewry became subject to an all-night curfew, their special food rations were far below that of the general population, they were officially forbidden to use public transport and, when allied bombing began, to use public air raid shelters.[97]
In May 1941 the Cologne Gestapo started to concentrate all Jewish from Cologne in so-called Jewish houses. From there they were transferred to the barracks in Fort V in Müngersdorf. The ghettoisation was the preparation for the deportation to extermination camps. In September 1941 the "Police order about the identification of Jews" obliged all Jewish people in the German Reich more than six years old to wear a yellow badge sewed to the left side of the garment.
Deportation from Deutz
On 21 October 1941 the first transport left Cologne for Łódź, the last one was sent to Theresienstadt on 1 October 1944. Immediately before the transport the fair hall in Cologne-Deutz was used as a detention camp. The transports left from the underground part of the Köln Messe/Deutz Station. The deported people went to Łódź, Theresienstadt, Riga, Lublin and other ghettos and camps in the east,[where?] which were only transit points: from here they went to extermination camps.
Of special note was the deportation to Minsk on July 20, 1942, of Jewish children and some of their teachers, among them Erich Klibansky. The last to be deported in 1943 were Jewish communal workers. After that deportation the only Jews remaining were those in mixed marriages and their children, many of whom were deported in the fall of 1944.[97]
Out of Müngersdorf and Deutz were situated also prisoners and concentration camps on a factory site in Porz Hochkreuz and also in the nearby place of Brauweiler.
When the U.S. troops occupied Cologne on 6 March 1945, between 30 and 40 Jewish men who had survived in hiding were found.[citation needed]
Post-war and present
Of the 19,500 Jewish citizens of Cologne in 1930, about 11,000 were killed during the Nazi regime.[98] Some of them were killed after they left Germany to avoid Nazi persecution. Among others, the Cologne lawyer Siegmund Klein and his son Walter Klein were killed in Auschwitz concentration camp, after being deported respectively from the Netherlands and France in 1943 and 1942.[99]
The survivors of the Cologne community regathered in the ruins of the Ehrenfeld asylum, whose main building had been preserved to a large extent, for a new beginning. In Ottostraße a synagogue was also temporarily arranged, until the community could rebuild the Neo-Romanesque Lord's house at Roonstraße in 1959.
At the first post-war Christmas Eve celebrations in 1959, during the Swastika epidemic of 1959–1960, the Roonstrasse Synagogue and the Cologne memorial for the Victims of the Nazi regime were damaged by two members of the extreme rightist Deutsche Reichspartei, who were later arrested. The synagogue was daubed with black, white and red color paint, and a swastika and the slogan "Juden raus" were added.[100]
Rabbis active in Cologne in the postwar period were Zvi Asaria and E. Schereschewski. The Monumenta Judaica exhibition, reflecting 2,000 years of Jewish history and culture in the Rhineland, was shown in 1963–64.
Besides a youth centre, the community maintained a Jewish home for the aged. The Jewish community numbered 1,358 in 1989 and 4,650 in 2003.[97]
Jewish cemetery in Bocklemünd
The Jewish cemetery of Bocklemünd has been used as a burial place since 1918 and is still used today. The Lapidarium of the cemetery hosts 58 fragments of stones between the 12th and the 15th century, that came from the Jewish cemetery of Judenbüchel in Köln-Raderberg, which was closed in 1695 with the opening of a new cemetery in Deutz and excavated in 1936. People who were buried there were moved to another grave in Bocklemünd.
Jewish centre in Nußbaumerstraße
The Ehrenfeld Centre on the Nußbaumerstraße / Ottostraße is the successor of the "Jewish Hospital of Ehrenfeld". The hospital survived Nazism but was damaged by bomb attacks. In the building gathered the Jewish survivors of the Cologne community who then moved to the rebuild Synagogue at Roonstraße in the 1950s thereafter the hospital served as a Belgium military hospital until the 1990s. The facilities that exist in the same place, today called "Jüdisches Wohlfahrtszentrum", have their origin, as the partly conserved building of the old hospital of 1908, in one of the 18th century charitable constructions in "Silvanstraße", the Israelitische Asyl für Kranke und Altersschwache.[101]
Jewish community in Köln-Riehl
The Union of Progressive Jews in Germany (UPJ), founded in Munich in June 1997, is a religious association with a small Jewish liberal community in Köln-Riehl, with about 50 members and calls itself Jüdische Liberale Gemeinde Köln Gescher LaMassoret e.V.. The community offers regular religious instruction for small children, young and adults.
Notable Cologne Jews in modern times
Year | Pop. | ±% |
---|---|---|
321 | — | |
801 | — | |
1089 | 600 | — |
1349 | — | |
1372 | 50 | — |
1424 | — | |
1634 | 17 | — |
1789 | 19 | +11.8% |
1801 | 50 | +163.2% |
1824 | 500 | +900.0% |
1849 | 1,300 | +160.0% |
1899 | 9,750 | +650.0% |
1938 | 19,500 | +100.0% |
1949 | 100 | −99.5% |
1989 | 1,350 | +1250.0% |
2009 | 4,450 | +229.6% |
2009 figures by the Central Council of Jews in Germany \ |
Since 1861, the following persons have headed the executive board of the Jewish community of Cologne: the physician Doctor Bendix, S.M. Frank (until 1879), Jacob de Longe, Louis Elliel (until 1919), Emil Blumenau (until 1931), the lawyer Doctor H. Frank (until 1933) and consul Albert Bendix until 1939.
Until 1857, the community was managed by the Bonn Consistory and its rabbi. The first Cologne rabbi was
- Israel Schwarz (1828–1875), followed by
- Abraham Frank (1839–1917) from 1875,
- Ludwig Rosenthal (1870–1938) from 1897 and from 1906 in charge only of Glockengasse Synagogue,
- Adolf Kober (1879–1958) from 1918 to 1939,
- Isidor Caro (1877–1943) from 1939 to 1942[102]
The synagogues of the community had the following cantors:
- Isaac Offenbach till 1850,
- Rosenberg since 1851,
- F. Blumenthal from 1876 to 1924,
- E. Kohn till 1936,
- F. Fleishmann, Max Baum and Schallamach after 1930.
All of them contributed to the enrichment of synagogue music.[103]
The rectors of the community school were
- Bernhard Coblenz from 1901 to 1926, and
- Emil Kahn from 1926 to 1938.
Cologne Jews, involved in the larger Jewish community were
- ], and
- the founders of Zionism:
The most important Jewish names in the economic life of the city during the nineteenth century were
- the brothers Abraham Oppenheim (1804–1878) and
- Simon Oppenheim (1803–1880), active in banking and railroads;
- the brothers Jacob, Loeb and Louis Eltzbacher active in banking; and
- Adolf Silverberg and his son involved in peat-coal.
Jews involved in politics were
- Moses Hess (as mentioned above);
- the physician Andreas Gottschalk, founder of the Workers' Club in Cologne; and
- Bernhard Falck, member of the National Assembly from 1919.
Jews involved in the arts were
- the lithographer and painter David Levi Elkan (1808–1865),
- the cantor Isaac Judah Offenbach and his son, the composer Jacques Offenbach, born in Cologne in 1819,
- the conductor Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885), kapellmeister in Cologne from 1849 to 1884,
- the composer Friedrich Gersheim who taught at the Cologne Conservatory from 1865 to 1874.[102]
During the 1930s Cologne had many Jewish lawyers (125 at number) and doctors.
Memorial sites
- In the church of St. Maria vom Frieden of the Cologne Carmeliten a small archive in the monastery attached to the church keeps the memory of the fellow nun who was killed 9 August 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp, the Jewish Edith Stein who converted to the catholic religion.
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Löwenbrunnen in Klibanskiplatz
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Memorial plaque for the synagogue in Glockengasse
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Police building in Schildergasse, seat of Gestapo 1933/35
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Memorial plaque in Reischplatz 6
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Stolpersteine in front of Blumenthalstrasse 23 in remembrance of Siegmund, Helene und Walter Klein[104]
- In the Jewish cemetery in Köln-Bocklemünd two memorials remember the Jewish victims. One memorial keeps the memory of the members of the Cologne synagogue community who died in Theresienstadt with the acting rabbi until 1942 Isidor Caro (born in Znin-Poland 16.10.1877-deported to Theresienstadt 16.6.1942-deported to Auschwitz 28.8.1943Köln-Stammheim. A second memorial plaque keeps the memory of all the victims of the Synagogue community of Cologne.
- The memorial "Die Gefangenen", 1943, created by Ossip Zadkine, stays on the honor monument of the Westfriedhof, Köln-Bocklemünd
- Memorial plaque in Ehrenfeld, Körnerstraße
- A bronze plaque remembers the Synagogue in Glockengasse near today's Opera House
- A memorial plaque in St. Apern-Straße/ corner with Helenenstraße (on the side of the hotel) is dedicated to the Synagogue of St. Apern-Straße. In front of the hotel building on the small Erich Klibansky Platz you can see the Löwenbrunnen (1997)
- Memorial plaque for the victims of Gestapo in Krebsgasse
- Memorial plaque in Reischplatz 6 in Deutz for the last of the three Deutz synagogues (Haus der Polizeistation)
- Memorial plaque on Messeturm Köln, Kennedy-Ufer
- Memorial plaque at Stadtpark, Walter-Binder-Weg
- Stolpersteine of the artist Gunter Demnigin front of the houses where victims of the nazis lived assures the remembrance of these Jews.
The
Cologne Jewish Museum
The municipality of Cologne, in the frame of the Regionale 2010, plans to build an "archeological area" as an archaeological-historical museum. In this context a Jewish museum should arise between the historical Rathaus and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum over the basement of the first Cologne synagogues and ritual bath.[107] The construction has been decided in the Council but is opposed by politics and the people, because the town loses a free square in front of the historical Rathaus.[108] At present there are excavations on the designated site for the first time since 1950, in which part of the synagogue of the Jewish quarter should be uncovered.[109]
See also
- History of the Jews in Germany
- History of the Jews in Hamburg
- History of the Jews in Munich
- History of Cologne
- Yiddish language
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Zwischen 1938 und 1944 wurden in Köln über 735 Häuser und Grundstücke jüdischer Besitzer beschlagnahmt und verkauft. Bereits 1934 war das Kaufhaus Leonhard Tietz A.G. auf der Schildergasse "arisiert" und in "Westdeutsche Kaufhof AG" umbenannt worden. Im Mai 1941 mussten alle jüdischen Bewohner des Rechtsrheinischen ihre Häuser räumen. Sie durften nur noch in sogenannten "Judenhäusern" in Ehrenfeld, Nippes und der Alt- und Nordstadt wohnen.
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Nachdem Raphael Brenner dem Druck des NSBO zur Widereinstellung nicht nachgegeben hatte, wurde er deshalb am 11.Juni 1933 wegen angeblicher Wirtschaftssabotage verhaftet und für einen Tag inhaftiert. Am 13.Juni folgte eine erneute "Schutzhaft", nun wegen angeblicher Hehlerei mit Heeresgut nach England. Wähend seiner 18 Tage dauernden Einzelhaft im Klingelpütz wurde Raphael Brenner unter größtem seelischen Druck erpresst, sein persönliches und geschäftliches Vermögen zu verkaufen. Angesichts der drohenden Überstellung in das KZ Dachau unterschrieb er schließlich im Gefängnis im Beisein von Gestapo- und NSBO-Vertretern am 26.Juni 1933 den vorbereiteten Kaufvertrag. Statt dem geschätzten WQert von 200 00 RM war der Kaufpreis auf 60 000 RM festgesetzt worden. Später zeigte sich, dass die Familie Brenner rechtliche Schritte einleiten musste, um selbst diesen geringen Betrag zu erhalten. Bevor Raphale Brenner aufgrund der fortgesetzten Intervention einiger Geschäftsfreunde aus der fotografischen Industrie das Gefängnis verlassen konnte, wurde er gezwungen, schriftlich zu bestätigen, dass er "keine schwere Zeit mitgemacht" habe.
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MDS wies den «Spiegel»-Artikel am Dienstag in einer halbseitigen Stellungnahme im «Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger» als «journalistisch unverantwortlich» zurück. Kein Mitglied der Verlegerfamilie habe zu irgendeinem Zeitpunkt behauptet, dass von der Familie oder vom Verlag Widerstand ausgegangen sei. «In eigenen Veröffentlichungen sowie durch Öffnung unserer Archive sind wir immer und vorbehaltlos offen auch mit dieser Zeit umgegangen», heißt es in der Stellungnahme. Die Unterstellung, Verlag und Familie hätten beim Kauf von drei Grundstücken gewusst, dass sie aus jüdischem Besitz stammten, sei leichtfertig. Das Verlegerehepaar Kurt und Gabriele Neven DuMont habe während der Nazizeit enge Beziehungen zum jüdischen Schriftsteller Wilhelm Unger unterhalten, eine jüdische Sekretärin beschäftigt und deren Schwester bis Kriegsende verborgen. Der heutige Seniorchef von MDS, Alfred Neven DuMont (78), habe sich früh für die Aussöhnung mit Israel eingesetzt. Er gründete ein Hilfswerk für Israelis und Palästinenser.
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Alfred Neven DuMont's father had been a member of the Nazi party. At the time the acquisition was announced in August, his company DuMont Schauberg was in a legal battle with German news magazine Der Spiegel over allegations, first made in February, that it had also profited from the appropriation of Jewish property in Cologne during the second world war. Two weeks ago, Der Spiegel was forced to print a retraction.
- ^ Quoted from Johannes Maubach: Quer durch Ehrenfeld; Ehrenfelder Geschichtspfad, Teil 1. Flock-Druck, Köln 2001, p. 96
- ^ Maubach, p. 96
- ^ a b c Alexander Carlebach, Cologne, Encyclopaedia Judaica, The Gale Group, 2008
- ^ Kirsten Serup-Bilfeld, Zwischen Dom und Davidstern. Jüdisches Leben in Köln von den Anfängen bis heute. Köln 2001, p. 193
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- ^ Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-69809-0002
- ^ Barbara Becker-Jákli: Das jüdische Krankenhaus in Köln, p. 152
- ^ a b Adolf Kober, Cologne
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- University Over the Abyss, The story behind 520 lecturers and 2,430 lectures in KZ Theresienstadt 1942-1944 [2]
- ^ Adam Wrede, Band I, p. 393
- ^ Archeological Zone and Jewish Museum: Website www.koelnarchitektur.de [3] Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved, 14 September 2008
- ^ Jüdisches Museum soll 2010 öffnen, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger vom 1. März 2007
- ^ David Ohrndorf: Kölner Synagoge wird ausgegraben. Westdeutscher Rundfunk, retrieved 14 September 2008
External links
- "Cologne", Jewish Encyclopedia, 1902
- Adolf Kober, Cologne, The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1940
- Alexander Carlebach, "Cologne", Encyclopaedia Judaica, The Gale Group, 2008
- Literature by and about History of the Jews in Cologne in the German National Library catalogue
- Geschichte der Jüdischen Liberalen Gemeinde Köln
- Alexander Tyurin, Die Geschichte der Kölner Gemeinde, Synagogen-Gemeinde of Cologne