Ludwig Barbasch

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Ludwig Barbasch (born August 28, 1892 in Berlin , † July 11, 1967 in Wiesbaden ) was a German politician ( USPD / KAPD ) and lawyer . In 1919 he was a minister with no portfolio in the Mecklenburg revolutionary government .

Life

After studying law in Berlin, Cambridge and Grenoble , Barbasch passed the legal traineeship in Berlin, volunteered after the outbreak of World War I and fought with the rank of non-commissioned officer . After the end of the war in 1918 Barbasch received his doctorate from the University of Rostock . At the beginning of 1919, as a member of the soldiers' council in Schwerin, he was involved in an uprising by sailors and was co-founder of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) in Mecklenburg . Until July 1919 Barbasch was a minister without a portfolio in the Mecklenburg revolutionary government.

At the end of 1919 Barbasch was sentenced to death for his participation in the Schwerin sailors' uprising , but was then pardoned . He then became active in the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD), a split from the KPD , and had considerable influence in the party in 1921/22. From 1924 to 1933 he worked as a lawyer and political defense attorney for the KAPD and the Lenin League , later for the Red Aid in Berlin, and worked with the lawyer Hans Litten . Litten and Barbasch reported the then police chief of Berlin Karl Zörgiebel for inciting murder in 33 cases on May 1, 1929 and represented the accessory prosecution . Both were also lawyers for the joint plaintiffs in the so-called Eden Trial , which took place in January 1931 because of the attack by an SA commando on the Eden dance hall, which was visited by left-wing workers, and in which Adolf Hitler was also summoned.

On the night of the Reichstag fire in February 1933, Barbasch was arrested and interned in various concentration camps until September 1933 . After his release , Barbasch emigrated to Palestine via Switzerland and Italy and settled as a lawyer in Tel Aviv .

Barbasch was first married to Charlotte Brandt, who gave birth to a son, Fedor Günther, in 1925 and then died in childbed. At the beginning of the thirties he got to know the widow Else Neumann, née Marcuse, through the lawyer Richard Marcuse. Else had a daughter, Rosemarie, from her first marriage to Georg Neumann, who died young. Barbasch and Else Neumann got engaged in autumn 1932. After his release from the concentration camps, Ludwig Barbasch and Else Neumann emigrated to Palestine in November 1933, where they married on May 2, 1934 at the German consulate in Jaffa.

After Ludwig Barbasch had qualified as a lawyer in Palestine, he worked as a lawyer in Tel Aviv from mid-1937, supported by his wife, who was his secretary for thirty years until his death in 1967.

In 1957 Barbasch returned to Germany and worked as a lawyer in Wiesbaden from 1958 to 1967, dealing primarily with questions of reparation.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Bergemann: Rightly again a lawyer, Jewish lawyers from Berlin after 1945 . Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin Bar Association 2012, ISBN 978-3-942271-73-8 .
  2. ↑ Biography about Heinz Litten with references to Ludwig Barbasch ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Association of Democratic Jurists eV @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vdj.de
  3. ↑ His fight was against the law , taz, June 7, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Barbasch, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (USPD, KPD, KAPD) and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1967
Place of death Wiesbaden