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From 1867 onwards, mainly Jewish merchant and trader families from villages in the neigh\u00adboring regions of the Sauerland and the Witt\u00adgen\u00adstein came to the growing indus\u00adtrial city of Siegen. They were part of a migration movement that could be observed throug\u00adhout the German Empire in the last third of the 19th century: with the cons\u00adtruc\u00adtion of the railroad network and indus\u00adtria\u00adliza\u00adtion, more and more rural residents moved to the cities, where they hoped for a better life. In 1871, with the founding of the German Empire, Jews received legal and statutory equality for the first time in German history, putting them on an equal footing with the Christian majority of the popu\u00adla\u00adtion. However, they were still denied high positions in the state and the military during the empire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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In Siegen, the number of Jews increased from 23 (1870) to 111 (1880), so that the desire for a struc\u00adtured community life grew. By way of compa\u00adrison, the popu\u00adla\u00adtion of Siegen grew from around 11,000 to 15,000 people in the same period. The propor\u00adtion of Jews in the city popu\u00adla\u00adtion was therefore less than one percent. In total, 512,000 Jews lived in the German Reich at that time; most of them in Berlin.<\/p>\n
Like ever\u00ady\u00adwhere else where Jews wanted to settle perma\u00adnently, the Siegen Jews were the first to acquire a plot of land for a cemetery: in 1871 on the Linden\u00adberg. The estab\u00adlish\u00adment of a private religious school also dates back to 1871. It was reco\u00adgnized by the state in 1885 and was in operation until 1915. In 1884, the official Jewish community was finally founded, for which its chairman, Meier Leser Stern, acquired a plot of land \u201eaufm Ober\u00adgraben\u201c seven years later, in 1891, for the cons\u00adtruc\u00adtion of a synagogue. It took another decade, however, before Stern applied for a building permit in September 1902. The synagogue, which had room for 90 men and 70 women, was conse\u00adcrated on July 22, 1904. Until then, Siegen\u2019s Jewry had gathered for services in their homes or in rented premises such as an inn or a factory building. In 1912, they were able to establish another burial ground in the municipal Hermels\u00adbach cemetery. The social concerns of the community were taken care of by the Israelite Women\u2019s Asso\u00adcia\u00adtion, founded in 1900.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The community numbered around a hundred members throug\u00adhout its existence: 127 (1885), 97 (1900), 130 (1925) and 122 (1933). While the number of Jews remained about the same, the city popu\u00adla\u00adtion grew to almost 33,000. Another hundred or so Jews lived in villages in the district. For the most part, however, they were only in loose contact with the Siegen community and gathered in their own prayer rooms, as in Hilchen\u00adbach and Littfeld. At most, they attended services in Siegen on the high holidays such as Passover or Yom Kippur. After the First World War, an Eastern Jewish family origi\u00adna\u00adting from Poland moved to Siegen for the first time.<\/p>\n
The Siegen Jews were mostly cattle dealers, butchers and merchants, who in the course of time opened small stores, espe\u00adci\u00adally around the market in the upper town. Only a few of them achieved relative prospe\u00adrity; the vast majority belonged to the petty bour\u00adgeoisie, lived in poor condi\u00adtions and had to fight every day anew for economic survival. The piety of the Siegen Jews was tradi\u00adtional, but they were also open to inno\u00adva\u00adtions, as the instal\u00adla\u00adtion of a harmonium in the synagogue shows.<\/p>\n
The community could neither finance an organ nor a rabbi, so that the Jewish teachers worked as preachers and cantors. The most important among them was the innkee\u00adper\u2019s son Simon Gr\u00fcnewald, born in 1870 in P\u00f6mbsen in East West\u00adphalia, who worked in Siegen from 1897 until his forced emigra\u00adtion in June 1939. Gr\u00fcnewald died in New York in December 1939, a few weeks after his arrival in the USA.<\/p>\n
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Poli\u00adti\u00adcally, the Jews in the Sieger\u00adland were mostly loyal to the Kaiser or German national conser\u00adva\u00adtives. So it was no question that their young men volun\u00adteered to take part in the First World War: 32 Jewish soldiers from the Sieger\u00adland fought for the German Empire, eight of them did not return from the batt\u00adle\u00adfields. The cantor and teacher Gr\u00fcnewald was parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly patrio\u00adti\u00adcally minded. In 1915 he published a volume of \u201ewar poems\u201c which read:<\/p>\n
This is the way of the Sieger\u00adl\u00e4nder:<\/em> The Jews of Sieger\u00adland lived in a special region: In the region, which was charac\u00adte\u00adrized by strict religious Calvinism and the piety movement of Pietism, the Christian-social court preacher and poli\u00adti\u00adcian Adolf Stoecker (1835\u20131909) had his consti\u00adtuency for three decades. Stoecker was one of the leading figures in the anti-Semitic movement, which incre\u00adasingly went public from 1879: When the first major economic crisis of the 19th century occurred in Germany after the stock market crash of 1873, a parti\u00adcu\u00adlarly aggres\u00adsive form of hostility toward Jews emerged. Ancient anti-Jewish stereo\u00adtypes, passed down from gene\u00adra\u00adtion to gene\u00adra\u00adtion, combined with modern anti-Semitism: Christian religious anti-Judaism, envy of the visible success of many Jews, and the unbroken defi\u00adni\u00adtion of the German Reich as a Christian state combined with a new pseudo-scien\u00adtific ideology. According to this ideology, humanity could be divided into different races, some of which were suppo\u00adsedly superior \u2013 the Germanic peoples, for example \u2013 and others inferior. The Jews were now neither a religion nor a nation, but a funda\u00admen\u00adtally different and, what is more, inferior \u201erace\u201c: they were dehu\u00adma\u00adnized and equated with pathogens, insects or parasites, which one was allowed to \u201eeliminate\u201c, \u201eexter\u00admi\u00adnate\u201c, \u201erender harmless\u201c, \u201eremove\u201c and \u201eexter\u00admi\u00adnate\u201c. The centuries-old antago\u00adnism between Jews and Chris\u00adtians turned into the far more momentous and ulti\u00adm\u00adately deadly antago\u00adnism between Jews and Germans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=\u201e1_5,3_5,1_5\u201c _builder_version=\u201e4.9.4\u201c _module_preset=\u201edefault\u201c][et_pb_column type=\u201e1_5\u201c _builder_version=\u201e4.9.4\u201c _module_preset=\u201edefault\u201c][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\u201e3_5\u201c _builder_version=\u201e4.9.4\u201c _module_preset=\u201edefault\u201c][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u201e4.9.4\u201c _module_preset=\u201edefault\u201c text_font=\u201c|300|||||||\u201c text_text_color=\u201e#134063\u201c text_line_height=\u201e1.4em\u201c background_enable_color=\u201eoff\u201c text_font_size_tablet=\u201c\u201c text_font_size_phone=\u201e16px\u201c text_font_size_last_edited=\u201eon|phone\u201c]<\/p>\n With his anti-Jewish agitation, Stoecker made anti-Semitism \u201eaccep\u00adtable\u201c and was later cele\u00adbrated by the National Socia\u00adlists as the \u201eprophet of the Third Reich. In the Sieger\u00adland, he achieved extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adna\u00adrily good election results; in 1887, for example, he was elected to the Reichstag with 77.9 percent of the vote. Siegen historian Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann sums up the atmo\u00adsphere in the empire as \u201eChris\u00adtia\u00adnity, bourgeois decency and anti-Semitism as a synthesis.\u201c It was therefore not surpri\u00adsing that the Sieger\u00adland could become a strong\u00adhold of the National Socia\u00adlists: In the last demo\u00adcratic elections in November 1932, the NSDAP received 56.1 percent of the vote \u2013 the average in the German Reich was 33.1 percent.<\/p>\n Not only during the Nazi era, but already in the turmoil of upheaval at the beginning of the Weimar Republic, there were anti-Semitic riots in Siegen. Although around 100,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the empire in the First World War and 12,000 of them were killed, conser\u00adva\u00adtive and anti-demo\u00adcratic forces in the Sieger\u00adland also blamed the Jews for the defeat of the empire. Their demons\u00adtra\u00adtive commit\u00adment to Germanism had been of no use to the Jews of the Sieger\u00adland: The untruthful slogan \u201eEver\u00ady\u00adwhere her face grins, except in the trenches\u201c could also be heard and read in Siegen. In early June 1920, the night before the unveiling of a memorial plaque for the Jewish victims of the war, the synagogue was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans.<\/p>\n During the Empire and also during the Weimar Republic, when German Jewry expe\u00adri\u00adenced its heyday, there was hardly any social contact between the small Jewish minority and the Christian majority society in Siegen beyond business connec\u00adtions. Unlike in Laasphe, forty kilo\u00adme\u00adters away, where Jews were inte\u00adgrated into small-town life, only very few Siegen Jews belonged to local asso\u00adcia\u00adtions. They were not repre\u00adsented in political parties or local political bodies. \u201eLaasphe was the exception, Siegen the rule,\u201c says historian Opfermann.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u201e4.9.4\u201c _module_preset=\u201edefault\u201c text_font=\u201c|300|||||||\u201c text_text_color=\u201e#134063\u201c text_line_height=\u201e1.4em\u201c background_enable_color=\u201eoff\u201c text_font_size_tablet=\u201c\u201c text_font_size_phone=\u201e16px\u201c text_font_size_last_edited=\u201eon|phone\u201c]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With his anti-Jewish agitation, Stoecker made anti-Semitism \u201eaccep\u00adtable\u201c and was later cele\u00adbrated by the National Socia\u00adlists as the \u201eprophet of the Third Reich. In the Sieger\u00adland, he achieved extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adna\u00adrily good election results; in 1887, for example, he was elected to the Reichstag with 77.9 percent of the vote. Siegen historian Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann sums up the atmo\u00adsphere in the empire as \u201eChris\u00adtia\u00adnity, bourgeois decency and anti-Semitism as a synthesis.\u201c It was therefore not surpri\u00adsing that the Sieger\u00adland could become a strong\u00adhold of the National Socia\u00adlists: In the last demo\u00adcratic elections In the last demo\u00adcratic elections in November 1932, the NSDAP received 56.1 percent of the vote \u2013 the average in the German Reich was 33.1 percent.<\/p>\n Not only during the Nazi era, but already in the turmoil of upheaval at the beginning of the Weimar Republic, there were anti-Semitic riots in Siegen. Although around 100,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the empire in the First World War and 12,000 of them were killed, conser\u00adva\u00adtive and anti-demo\u00adcratic forces in the Sieger\u00adland also blamed the Jews for the defeat of the empire. Their demons\u00adtra\u00adtive commit\u00adment to Germanism had been of no use to the Jews of the Sieger\u00adland: The untruthful slogan \u201eEver\u00ady\u00adwhere her face grins, except in the trenches\u201c could also be heard and read in Siegen. In early June 1920, the night before the unveiling of a memorial plaque for the Jewish victims of the war, the synagogue was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans.<\/p>\n During the Empire and also during the Weimar Republic, when German Jewry expe\u00adri\u00adenced its heyday, there was hardly any social contact between the small Jewish minority and the Christian majority society in Siegen beyond business connec\u00adtions. 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The outside is rough and hard,<\/em>
His mind, however, is honest, his soul is mild;<\/em>
And where great things are to be accom\u00adplished, -<\/em>
To his glory be it proclaimed:<\/em>
The Sieger\u00adl\u00e4nder is always there!<\/em><\/p>\n
The outside is rough and hard,
His mind, however, is honest, his soul is mild;
And where great things are to be done, -
To his glory be it proclaimed:
The Sieger\u00adl\u00e4nder is always there!<\/div>\n