Samuel David Mendelssohn

Infobox Chancellor
name = Samuel David Mendelssohn


order = 1^st, 3^rd, 5^th Government Commissioner for Education and Youth for the district of Rheinhessen-Pfalz
term_start = January 1, 1975–July 2nd, 1977; October 9th, 1983;
term_end = December 22nd, 1983; March 17th, 1985–November 28th, 1985
predecessor = (1st) new creation;
(3rd) Werner Böhm;
(5th) Waltraud Rheinhardt
successor = (1st) Werner Böhm;
(3rd) Waltraud Rheinhardt;
(5th) Victor von Stutenbreck
birth_date = May 17, 1942
birth_place = Jerusalem
death_date = September 16, 2006
death_place = Ludwigshafen
spouse = Barbara Modersohn Becker (1966-1971); Marianne Weber (1982-1997)
occupation = political scientist, teacher
party = none, candidated for FDP

Samuel David Nathaniel Aaron Mendelssohn (May 17 1942 Jerusalem–September 16 2006), known as Samuel David Mendelssohn, was a German political scientist, author and independent politician for the Free Democrats.

Biography

Mendelssohn was born as the only son of Amschel and his wife Elvira in Jerusalem. In 1943 the Mendelssohns' emigrated to Liechtenstein and in 1945 to Munich, Germany. There Mendelssohn joined the University and doctorated 1965 in Political Science as "Dr. disc. pol.".

He had been married to Barbara Modersohn-Becker from 1966 to 1971 as Barbara died during the birth of their last daughter. They have five children: Maximilian (* 1967), Sebastian (* 1968), Rahel (* 1970), Daniel (* 1971) und Ariane (* 1971). After his time as a widower he married a second time. In 1982 he married Marianne Weber and they had two daughters: Marina (* 1984) und Christiane (* 1985). Also Marianne died during the birth of her last daughter. Since 1997 Mendelssohn had been a widower for the second time.

Mendelssohn lived in Ludwigshafen (1966-1975) and in Landau (since 1975). Mendelssohn was a Jew.

Political science

Mendelssohn wrote many essays about the political situation in Germany between 1964 to 1985 and also to the German reunification in 1990.

Today Mendelssohn is known as one of the most notable political scientiest in Europe in the post-war time.

Politics

Mendelssohn was also politically active: He was a member of the city council of Ludwigshafen and from 1975 till 1977 he was "Government Commissioner for Education and Youth for the district of Rheinhessen-Pfalz" (Regierungskommisar für Bildung und Jugend für den Regierungsbezirk Rheinhessen-Pfalz) of Rhineland-Palatinate. He held this office for a second and a third time in 1983 and 1985.

Official Mendelssohn joined no party, but he sympathised with the FDP.

Didactics

Since 1968 Mendelssohn had been a teacher on a "Realschule" in Landau. He gave lessons in politics, English and German. Since 1973 he was also the principal of this school. He reformed the didactics in politics in school.

In 1999 Mendelssohn held his last lesson as teacher.