Fritz Grünspach

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Fritz Grünspach (born June 5, 1874 in Krotoschin / Posen , † October 20, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Grünspach was best known as a defender of artists against state power. In 1911, for example, the Berlin police chief Traugott von Jagow took offense at the publication of Gustave Flaubert's youth diary in the magazine Pan and sued the editors for disseminating lewd ideas. Paul Cassirer then commissioned the then still relatively unknown Grünspach to defend against these allegations. Fritz Grünspach was also the defense attorney for all the defendants in the Liebknecht and Luxemburg proceedings. He also appeared as a defender of Waldemar Pabst , because of his role in the Kapp Putsch .

Grünspach also acted as Maximilian Harden's legal advisor and represented the interests of Emil and Walther Rathenau in an insulting process against the ethnic agitators Ludwig Müller called von Hausen . In 1921/22 he also represented Jagow, who had been involved in the Kapp Putsch .

In his gloss "Dada Trial" in the Weltbühne on April 28, 1921, Kurt Tucholsky reported under the pseudonym "Ignaz Wrobel" of Grünspach's defense of a portfolio by George Grosz , which he had shown at the First International Dada Fair . Grosz and his colleagues were accused of insulting the Reichswehr because of this folder with the title God with Us and other caricatures . Tucholsky sharply criticized Grosz's role in this process; at the same time, he characterized Grünspach: “The defense was largely aimed at presenting Grosz as joking about what is bitterest and best serious. Fritz Grünspach, who can defend both draftsmen and those who have been drawn, was skillful enough not to focus on the strong attack on the emperor's mind, but on its excesses. His pleading saved Grosz the collar and was devastating for him and his friends. Is this your defense? You didn't mean it that way? "

Works

  • Technician Law. Düsseldorf 1914.
  • Nude dances. In: The future. Vol. 20, Vol. 115, No. 25 of March 18, 1922, pp. 320-326.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://allegro.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hans-cgi/hans.pl?x=u&t_show=x&wertreg=PER&wert=gruenspach%2C+fritz+%5B1874-1924%5D&reccheck=114224
  2. ↑ Tilla Durieux : My first ninety years. Reinbek near Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-499-11965-X , p. 107 f.
  3. ↑ Matthias Hambrock: The establishment of outsiders. The Association of National German Jews 1921–1935. Böhlau 2003, ISBN 3-412-18902-2 , p. 507 f.
  4. ^ Tucholsky, Kurt: Dada process. on: zeno.org
personal data
SURNAME Grünspach, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Krotoschin
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1924
Place of death Berlin