Alfons Goldschmidt
Alfons Goldschmidt (born November 28, 1879 in Gelsenkirchen ; died January 20 or 21, 1940 in Cuernavaca , Mexico ) was a German left-wing intellectual journalist , economist and university lecturer.
Life
Goldschmidt was the son of a Jewish textile merchant. After graduating from school, he studied law in Munich and Berlin from 1900 . In 1902 he went to Freiburg im Breisgau to study political science there. There he received his doctorate in 1904. rer. pole.
After completing his military service, Goldschmidt became a teacher at a workers' training school in Potsdam . He discovered his passion for the theater. In Berlin he co-founded the political-erotic cabaret Zur Weißen Chrysantheme . However, this was dissolved soon after the opening. Between 1909 and 1911 he was the chief trade editor of the Ullstein press group . In 1911 he married Lina Jacoby.
At the beginning of the First World War he was a soldier with the rank of non-commissioned officer. He was released from the military in 1915. From 1917 Goldschmidt was a lecturer in business journalism and worked at the Institute for Newspaper Studies in Leipzig .
He was also an employee of Siegfried Jacobsohn's magazine Die Schaubühne (from 1918 Die Weltbühne ), sometimes under the pseudonym Loriarius. He wrote numerous articles for the magazine. He also wrote for the newspaper Die Republik in 1918 . In 1919 he was co-editor of the council newspaper .
In 1920 Goldschmidt traveled to Soviet Russia. He then co-founded the “Artists Aid for Hungry People in Russia”. In 1922 he went to Argentina and took over the chair of economics in Córdoba . He also traveled to the Soviet Union again. Between 1923 and 1925 Goldschmidt was a university professor in Mexico City . Then he traveled again to the Soviet Union. In 1925 he accepted an offer from UFA for the script for a documentary about Mexico. The film "In the footsteps of the Aztecs" premiered in 1927. In 1928 Goldschmidt went on a major pan-American trip.
Back in Germany he became chairman of the German section of International Workers Aid .
He emigrated at the beginning of National Socialist rule . Stops were Czechoslovakia and Moscow and finally the USA . His wife died in 1935. In Germany he was stripped of his citizenship rights and his academic titles. In 1938 Goldschmidt married his second wife Leni Weitzenkorn. A year later he moved to Mexico. There he was an advisor to the Mexican government and helped to facilitate the entry of anti-fascist refugees. He was a founding member of the Liga pro Cultura Alemana in Mexico.
After his death, he received a state funeral and was buried on the Panteón Civil de Dolores . The Free Germany Movement donated a memorial stone in 1942. He was valued by the GDR for his socialist attitude.
literature
- Wolfgang Kießling : Goldschmidt, Alfons. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 191-193.
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 392f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfons Goldschmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Alfons Goldschmidt in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Alfons Goldschmidt in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Individual evidence
- ^ Project of the University of Potsdam: Exile in Mexico ( Memento from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldschmidt, Alfons |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1940 or January 21, 1940 |
| Place of death | Cuernavaca |