For a long time, former Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann found it very difficult to talk publicly about his father Günter. This only changed last year with his autobiography.
Günter Feldmann had an eventful life: he grew up in Breslau, influenced by secular and reformist Judaism and the founding of the SPD, by his great-grandparents, persecuted by the Nazis, interned in a concentration camp, fled to Hamburg, Denmark and Sweden, where he joined the exiled KPD. After the war, full of hope, he wanted to build a socialist Germany, initially in the GDR. Doubtingly, he left and sought his fortune in an Israeli kibbutz.
He later became head of the Jewish educational counseling center in Frankfurt am Main.
After his death, a Jewish-Russian meeting center in Frankfurt's Ostend district was named after him.
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