Siegfried Thalheimer

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Siegfried Thalheimer (born January 10, 1899 in Düsseldorf , † September 13, 1981 in Seeon ) was a German journalist , publicist , writer and art dealer.

Life

After his studies, which he obtained with a doctorate to become Dr. phil. he was editor-in-chief of the Düsseldorfer Lokal-Zeitung from 1928 to 1933 . In the spring of 1933, as a Jew and as a journalist, he had to flee from Düsseldorf with uncomfortable convictions. In 1934 he went to Saarbrücken , after the annexation of the Saar region to the German Reich in 1935 to France ( Paris ). Thalheimer was editor of the dissident German-language publications Westland. Independent German weekly newspaper in Saarbrücken and Ordo in Paris. In 1941 he went to the USA, where he worked as an art dealer in New York , supported by his brother-in-law Max Stern , who had emigrated to Montreal .

He returned to Germany in 1949 and lived in Seeon in Upper Bavaria . His wife Gerda, b. Stern (1902–1994), with whom he was married since 1928, and their daughter Ruth (* 1929) stayed in New York. Part of the estate (1st delivery) is in the exile archive of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main , another part in the library of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Works

  • The German fleet law of 1898. Fritz, Düsseldorf 1926, plus Bonn, Phil. Diss., 1926.
  • Talk about Germany's future. CH Beck, Munich 1959 (= Beck's black series. Volume 4).
  • Power and justice. A contribution to the history of the Dreyfus case. Beck, Munich 1958
  • The Dreyfus Affair. A documentary volume. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1963 (= dtv pocket books. 112).
  • The Ghent Altarpiece. Beck, Munich 1967.

literature

  • Ingo Piel: Siegfried Thalheimer. In: John M. Spalek (Ed.): German-language exile literature since 1933. Saur, Bern et al. 2004, ISBN 3-907820-43-6 , pp. 537-576.
  • Helmut Hirsch : Siegfried Thalheimer and the Düsseldorfer Lokal-Zeitung. An emigration and re-immigration study. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 63, 1991, ISSN  0342-0019 , pp. 167-186.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Düsseldorfer Lokal-Zeitung: Organ for trade and commerce, property and housing market , data sheet in the portal zdb-katalog.de ( magazine database )
  2. ↑ After the occupation of the Saar, the name changed to "Grenzland. Independent German weekly paper", moved to Forbach , occupied until 1935.
  3. ↑ from April 1, 1938 to October 15, 1938. Copies or data carriers in the German National Library, no longer online access.
  4. ^ Estate in the catalog of the German National Library.
  5. ^ Thalheimer Family Fund
personal data
SURNAME Thalheimer, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1981
Place of death Seeon