Alexander Cohn
Alexander Cohn (born September 4, 1876 in Koenigsberg in Prussia , † April 7, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German judge of the higher courts , specialist author and survivor of the Holocaust .
Live and act
Cohn graduated after Abitur at Altstädtischer school in Königsberg to study law at the Universities of Berlin and Königsberg . He then passed the legal clerkship exam and was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD and worked as a court assessor in Berlin . From 1905 he was a district judge in Allenstein until he was transferred to District Court I in Berlin in 1908. During the First World War he was from 1914 to 1918 as a senior military officer in the war clothing office of the Garde du Corps . Cohn has received several awards, including the Iron Cross . After the end of the war he became the district court director in Berlin, and from 1919 as a judge of the chamber judge . From 1920 to 1927 he was a member of the examination committee of the Reich Chamber of Justice. From 1922 he performed as a member of the IA civil senate of the chamber court and was retired in 1935 - possibly also due to his Jewish origin.
By Franz Schlegelberger his was deported first be prevented. In January 1943, Cohn was finally deported from Berlin to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on January 28, 1943. There he was considered a so-called “prominent prisoner”. Despite the inhumane living conditions Cohn survived and was in early May 1945 in Theresienstadt freed . He then returned to Berlin and worked as a lawyer in the Soviet sector again. In the course of the Nuremberg legal process , Cohn testified in favor of Schlegelberger. Cohn died in 1951 after he was released from the judiciary.
family
Cohn was the son of the businessman Max Cohn and Anna geb. Hiller. On May 6, 1921, he married Else Hiller, born in Königsberg. on February 22, 1885, daughter of Robert Hiller and Sophie born. Hiller.
Fonts
- Publication of the new edition of the Litthauer Commercial Code , 1905 (together with Albert Mosse )
- Extradition treaties of the German Reich and the individual German states, 1908
literature
- Hans Bergemann / Simone Ladwig-Winters, Kammergericht (ed.): Jewish judges at the Kammergericht after 1933 - a documentation, Verlag Carl Heymanns, 2004, ISBN 978-3-452-25833-5
- Axel Feuss: The Theresienstadt-Konvolut , Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-935549-22-9
Web links
- Cohn, Alexander The Theresienstadt Lexicon
- Photo by Alexander Cohn in the celebrity album of the Theresienstadt ghetto
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Bergemann, Simone Ladwig-Winters: Judges and prosecutors of Jewish origin in Prussia under National Socialism. A factual investigation. A documentation (= legal fact research ). Bundesanzeiger-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89817-352-6 , p. 157.
- ^ Ancestry.com. Eastern Prussian Provinces, Poland, Civil Status Register 1874-1945 [database on-line], registry office Königsberg-Prussia II, register number 280/1921
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohn, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chamber judge, specialist author and survivor of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg in Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1951 |
| Place of death | Berlin |