Adin Talbar
Israeli Sports Activist (1921-2013)
Adin Talbar (Hebrew: עדין טלבר; 8 October 1921 – 6 September 2013), was a German-born Israeli diplomat and athlete who served as Deputy Director of the Israel Ministry for Commerce and Industry, furthered German-Israeli cooperation and founded the Israel Academic Sports Association (A.S.A.).
Biography
Adin Theilhabar (later Talbar) was born in Berlin. He was a grandson of Adolph Theilhaber, who was an advisor to the Bavarian court, and the son of Felix A. Theilhaber, a dermatologist and author in the early 20th century. Originally from Bamberg, his father came to Berlin, where he married Stefanie Czapinska, who came from an educated Jewish household in Włocławek, Poland.
After attending the Theodor-Herzl elementary school, Talbar was a pupil at the Goethe-Gymnasium for one year until 1933. When antisemitic discrimination increased he re-joined the Theodor-Herzl School run by Paula Fürst, which was the only Zionist school in Berlin. His father was arrested and deported to the concentration camp Plötzensee for two months in 1933. After his release his doctor's license was cancelled and, in 1935, the family immigrated to the British Mandate Palestine. Without his parents, Talbar joined Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek, where he studied and worked in agriculture. Individualistically disposed, he left the Kibbutz in 1938 to follow his brother Tola Theilhaber to London.
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