Alfred Goldberger

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Alfred Goldberger (born May 21, 1899 in Beverstedt , Geestemünde district ; † May 25, 1992 in New York City , USA ) was a Jewish lawyer of German origin in Dortmund and New York. He was a survivor of the Shoah .

Life

Goldberger graduated from high school in 1917 and then took part in the First World War as a soldier . At the end of the war, he began studying law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , which he completed in 1921 with a legal clerkship . Then came 1922, the promotion of Dr. jur. After the second state examination, Goldberger settled in Dortmund as a lawyer.

Goldberger belonged to a group of academics from whom the Georg August University in Göttingen had withdrawn their academic titles for racial, political or legal reasons during the Nazi era . Among them were Nobel Prize winners such as Max Born and Ludwig Quidde . In Goldberger's case, it can be assumed that the withdrawal of citizenship served as legitimation for the revocation of the doctorate. It was only in 2004 that the university management completely revoked these withdrawals, some of which had already been lifted in individual cases.

Goldberger was married to Ilse Jacobsen from Göttingen. Both had two sons. Immediately before the Reichspogromnacht Goldberger learned that he was about to be arrested. He was able to bring one son to Sweden, and then the second, before he managed to get visas for himself and his wife Ilse to travel to England. The sons were able to follow their parents from Sweden to England before the family left for the USA in 1940, where they had to live in very poor conditions for several years.

It was not until 1959 that Goldberger was again admitted to the Dortmund Regional Court and was able to resume his legal practice from New York.

Goldberger's mother, Selma Goldberger, née Wolff, born on March 8, 1871, was deported from Dortmund to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in July 1942 and died there on March 8, 1943.

Fonts

  • The legal obligations in the case of lien and usufruct . Univ. Diss., Göttingen, 1922.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Dr. Goldberger was born on May 21, 1899 in Beverstedt / Hanover ”, quoted by Himmelmann, Werner, The fate of Jewish lawyers and notaries during the time of National Socialism using the example of Dortmund , Dortmund 1993, p. 14. ( PDF  ( page no longer retrievable , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.anodo.de  
  2. ^ University of Paderborn in collaboration with the Literature Commission for Westphalia: Jewish writers in Westphalia: "Alfred Goldberger (contemporary witness), 1899–1992. Born April 21, 1899 Beverstedt / Hanover, Dortmund, emigrated to the USA in 1940, died April 25, 1992 New York; Lawyer, Dr. iur. ”, see: ( www.juedischeliteraturwestfalen.de ).
  3. ^ Preliminary list of Jewish writers and contemporary witnesses in Westphalia, see: ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ Werner Himmelmann, The fate of Jewish lawyers and notaries during the time of National Socialism using the example of Dortmund , Dortmund 1993, pp. 14-17. ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.anodo.de  
  5. ^ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Senate resolution to withdraw doctoral degrees during the Nazi era . Göttingen 2004. ( www.uni-goettingen.de ).
  6. ↑ Kerstin Thieler, "[...] unworthy of carrying a German academic degree." The withdrawal of doctoral degrees at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in the "Third Reich" , Göttingen 2006. ( PDF ).
  7. ↑ Werner Himmelmann, The fate of Jewish lawyers and notaries during the time of National Socialism using the example of Dortmund , Dortmund 1993, pp. 14-16. ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.anodo.de  
  8. ↑ Werner Himmelmann, The fate of Jewish lawyers and notaries during the time of National Socialism using the example of Dortmund , Dortmund 1993, p. 16. ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.anodo.de  
  9. ↑ ( Selma Goldberger in the database www.holocaust.cz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.holocaust.cz  
  10. ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung, November 17, 2011, "From Beverstedt to death". ( www.nordsee-zeitung.de ).
  11. ↑ ( Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Beverstedt )
  12. ↑ ( Selma Goldberger's tombstone on the Jewish cemetery in Beverstedt )
  13. ↑ Bibliographical information on Alfred Goldberger's dissertation (German National Library)
  14. ^ Senate resolution to withdraw doctoral degrees during the Nazi era, October 27, 2004 (unanimously)
personal data
SURNAME Goldberger, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American lawyer and survivor of the Shoah
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverstedt
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1992
Place of death New York City