He was super minister for culture and science until Prime Minister Markus Söder surprisingly catapulted him out of office. Spaenle's political career seemed to be over. But now the man from Munich has found his true fulfillment - in an office that was initially ridiculed as a club. Of Roman Deininger and Uwe RitzerLudwig Spaenle could certainly tell a lot about a full decade as Bavarian Minister of State, but it is his fate that the extremely abrupt end of...
They were students at the Luisengymnasium and became victims of the Nazi dictatorship. High school students have reconstructed the stories of 20 women, an artist, a scientist, a lawyer, mothers and shorthand typists. These 20 women were deported and killed in the Shoa, some of them with their relatives and their small children. The youngest was 17 years old, the oldest 43. They died in Auschwitz and Sobibor, in the camps in the Lublin district, in Kaunas and in the...
The commemoration of the Night of Broken Glass in Munich shows what a loss it will be if eyewitnesses are no longer able to report. comment by Rene HofmannAn annual act of remembrance is a great challenge. It runs the risk of becoming routine and thus losing its effectiveness. This danger exists even with events whose dimension of horror is timeless - such as the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938. On that night, the National Socialists "pushed open the gate...
There is no better place in Munich to celebrate Charlotte Knobloch. In the main synagogue Ohel-Jakob on Jakobsplatz, the 90th birthday of the President of the Jewish Community in Munich and Upper Bavaria (IKG) will be celebrated with a big ceremony on Sunday. This synagogue, whose stone block is modeled on the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, is Charlotte Knobloch's life's work. At least that part of it that you can touch with your hands. Her gift for reconciliation, her work...
Charlotte Knobloch, the longtime President of the Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria, is 90 years old. About the "miracle" of their survival and the question of whether Jews are in danger again today.Of Alexandra Föderl-SchmidCharlotte Knobloch survived the Nazi era because her uncle's former housekeeper, Kreszentia Hummel, said she was an illegitimate child and hid her on her parents' farm in Middle Franconia. "It's a miracle that I'm sitting there." source site
Charlotte Knobloch likes to be uncomfortable. For decades she has campaigned energetically and tirelessly for the interests of Jews as well as for peace and democracy. At 90 she looks back on a life between dark times and great joy.Open detailed view (Photo: imago stock&people)Charlotte Knobloch was born in Munich on October 29, 1932 - her father, the lawyer Fritz Neuland, was Jewish. Her mother Margarethe had converted to Judaism to please him, but divorced her in 1936 because of...
In the anniversary year, a lot is being reminded of the happy games of 1972 - but the summer games in Munich half a century ago also had a ghastly side. At that time, Palestinian terrorists carried out an attack on the Israeli team; eleven members of the team and one policeman died. On September 5th, the victims will be remembered at a central commemoration ceremony in Fürstenfeldbruck. However, the bereaved have canceled their participation because the promised formal compensation...
Alexander Miklosy would have been happy if he had lived to see that. But, modest as the former district committee chairman of the Isar- and Ludwigsvorstadt from the pink list, who died in December 2018, he would have said something like: "It doesn't need to be." Yes, that was necessary. For many years he walked, most recently with Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD), in the front row of the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade, which can be seen live again...
Despite numerous educational campaigns, the number of anti-Semitic crimes in Bavaria rose sharply again last year. While the number of anti-Jewish acts recorded by the police in 2020 was 353 - and thus already at a high - it climbed by more than 44 percent to 510 within a year , which is available to the German Press Agency in Munich. The number of anti-Semitic crimes in Bavaria has been rising sharply for years. In 2019 it was 307, in...
"We responded well" Around 3,000 demonstrators took to the streets against the Corona measures on Wednesday, but the police quickly broke up the unannounced protests. A 44-year-old man armed with a knife was brought before the judge.By Martin Bernstein, René Hofmann, Joachim Mölter, Thomas Schmidt, Yannik Schuster, Julia Schriever .source site
