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Alfred Landecker
A German-Jewish Life 1884-1942
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2025
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Alfred Landecker's life illustrates the fate of the vast majority of Jewish people in 20th century Germany at the time. From rural eastern Prussia to an industrial city in Germany’s southeast: shortly before the start of the First World War, Alfred Landecker decided to make a considerable leap. Raised in a large Jewish family in the town of Nordenburg, as a young man Alfred left the area for Mannheim. After years on the Western Front, he worked as a business representative in a machine factory, became acquainted with his future Catholic wife Maria Geßner, and started a family. In 1928, Maria died. Subsequent Nazi persecution from 1933 would place Alfred and his three children – designated »half Jews« through the Nuremberg Laws – in a hopeless situation. In 1942, Landecker was deported »to the east« and murdered. »Times change, and with the times, people change as well« he had written four years earlier in a letter to his daughter. This biography describes how »changed times« intruded into Alfred Landecker’s life and destroyed it.
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Copyright year
2025
ISBN-Print
978-3-8353-5995-6
ISBN-Online
978-3-8353-8950-2
Publisher
Wallstein, Göttingen
Language
English
Pages
216
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The last embrace No access Pages 7 - 10
Childhood in Nordenburg No access Pages 11 - 18
Big-city beginnings No access Pages 19 - 24
At the front No access Pages 25 - 36
A new home in the Rheinaustrasse No access Pages 37 - 46
Family years No access Pages 47 - 60
Mannheim marches No access Pages 61 - 72
Racial arithmetic No access Pages 73 - 82
Half-human beings No access Pages 83 - 90
Forms of destruction No access Pages 91 - 106
In Krün with Aunt Vroni No access Pages 107 - 116
Gurs No access Pages 117 - 130
“Hardly noticed by the populace” No access Pages 131 - 138
Possible and impossible emigration No access Pages 139 - 148
A registered letter No access Pages 149 - 154
Trip to Berlin No access Pages 155 - 162
“Keep on growing into fair and proper people” No access Pages 163 - 172
Transported No access Pages 173 - 178
Izbica No access Pages 179 - 192
Letters from Alfred Landecker to his daughter Gerda No access Pages 193 - 196
In Memoriam: Alfred Landecker (1884–1942) No access Pages 197 - 202
