Siegfried Rosenfeld
Siegfried Rosenfeld (born March 22, 1874 in Marienwerder , † December 2, 1947 in London ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).
Life
Rosenfeld came from a Jewish family. After attending grammar school, he studied law at the universities in Freiburg and Berlin . In 1897 he passed the first state examination in law and in 1899 received his doctorate in Rostock as a doctor of law . He passed the second state examination in law in 1903. He then worked as a lawyer and notary in Berlin until 1933 .
In 1905 Rosenfeld joined the SPD. Between 1912 and 1923 he acted as legal advisor to the German Agricultural Workers' Association. Rosenfeld was a soldier from 1914 to 1918. Between 1923 and 1925 he worked as a senior judge and speaker. From 1925 to 1928 Rosenfeld was Ministerialrat and then Ministerialdirektor in the Prussian Ministry of Justice until 1932. Rosenfeld became politically active in 1919 and 1920 as a member of the city council of Charlottenburg . He was also a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 to 1933 .
At the beginning of the National Socialist era , Rosenfeld first moved to Upper Bavaria . In 1934 he was briefly imprisoned. In 1939 he managed to emigrate to Great Britain . His wife Else Rosenfeld had to stay behind in Germany. In 1944 she managed to escape to Switzerland and from there to Great Britain. As a German citizen, Rosenfeld was interned on the Isle of Man in 1940. He later became a member of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain .
Rosenfeld refused to return to Germany after the Second World War because he feared he would be seen as an enemy. "I never want to see Germany again ... Anyone who lived abroad during the war, especially here, will always be seen as warmongers and Germany's enemy."
literature
- Else Behrend-Rosenfeld and Siegfried Rosenfeld: Life in two worlds. Diaries of a Jewish couple in Germany and in exile. Edited and commented by Erich Kasberger and Marita Krauss , Volk-Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-937200-98-9 .
- Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925-1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938). Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)
- Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 5th electoral term, Berlin 1933, p. 375.
- Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? . 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 1294.
Web links
- Biography of Siegfried Rosenfeld . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Else R. Behrend-Rosenfeld : I did not stand alone. Experiences of a Jewish woman in Germany 1933-1944. 3rd edition, Cologne and Frankfurt a. M. 1979.
- ↑ Text on radio broadcast Exil und Heimkehr ( Memento from September 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenfeld, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienwerder |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1947 |
| Place of death | London |