Arthur Ruppin

Arthur Ruppin (* March 1, 1876 in Rawitsch at Posen; † January 1, 1943 in Jerusalem) was a Jewish sociologist, Zionist and one of the pioneers of the founding of the city of Tel Aviv ( Ahuzat Bayit ). It is often called the father of Zionist settlement movement.

Life

Starting in 1886, Ruppin lived with his family in Magdeburg, where he spent his youth. His parents ran a small trade. Ruppin first attended the Kaiser- Wilhelm-Gymnasium, but this had to leave early for economic reasons. In 1896 he resigned his Abitur at Domgymnasium from as extraneus. He then studied economics and law in Berlin and Halle. 1903 and 1904 he worked as a clerk to the prosecutor initially and later at the Regional Court of Magdeburg. During this time he founded a Jewish trainee Stammtisch, which met regularly in Magdeburg Cathedral in the café. This circle also later in Berlin working as a lawyer Michael Meyer and Ernst Untermerzbach belonged. In 1903, the renowned Ruppin Haeckel Prize for his work Darwinism and social science. Still in Magdeburg, he wrote to the book The Jews of today. Between 1904 and 1907 he took over the management and founder of the " Bureau of Statistics of the Jews" in Berlin and also edited the magazine.

1908 Ruppin wandered into Palestine. He became head of the newly created Palestine Office, the official representative of the World Zionist Organization, in Joppa (opening on April 1, 1908); him stood aside as deputy Jacob Thon ( Ja'acov Tahun, יעקב טהון ). In Ruppin's support among other things, the establishment of the city of Tel Aviv is declining. He was one of the proponents of a practical Zionism and sought Jewish settlement of Palestine to. In 1920, Ruppin the Frankfurt architect Richard Kauffmann for the management of the planning department of the Centre for settlement of affairs at the Palestine Office, the projected northern expansion of Tel Aviv and many rural settlements. In 1925 he was co-founder of the Peace federal Brit Shalom, which appealed to both peoples to abandon their national aspirations, suggesting instead a bi-national community, but changed after the massacre in Hebron (1929 ) his mind, leaving Brit Shalom and called for a single Jewish state.

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he took over in 1926 the chair of " sociology of the century". In his sociological work Ruppin tried to refute on the basis of demographic and empirical- sociological methods in anti -Semitic prejudices of a Jewish dominance of certain professions. He was thinking of eugenics open-minded about, called for the new settlement of Palestine a " Cream of the human material " and even met in August 1933, after the Nazi seizure of power in Germany, with Hans FK Günther in Jena together. The be resettled should be of particular " physical, professional and moral quality". He also participates intensively on the development of new forms of social life, especially as the kibbutz movement.

Ruppin regarded as the founder of sociology of the Jews. His work is controversial. His statements on eugenics earned him the accusation of racism.

Honors

The city of Magdeburg, the Arthur Ruppin street named after him. It describes the southern flank of the Green Citadel of Magdeburg, the last and largest architectural works of the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The Arthur Ruppin Street opens into the main shopping street " Broad Way" at the point a, at the said to have been the home of the Ruppin Family before the Second World War.

The Haifa city founded in his honor a State Award ( Ruppin Prize ). Prize winners were, inter alia, In 1949 the writer and translator Leah Goldberg, and in 1952 the philosopher, Zionist and Kafka friend Felix Weltsch.

In his honor, wearing a kibbutz in northern Israel Kfar Ruppin the name.

Works

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