Alfred Neumeyer (lawyer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alfred Neumeyer (born February 17, 1867 in Munich ; died December 19, 1944 in Colonia Avigdor , Entre Ríos Province , Argentina ) was a German lawyer and chairman of the Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Bavaria .

Life

Alfred Neumeyer's father was a textile merchant from Oberndorf in Württemberg . He attended the Max-Gymnasium in Munich, served as a one-year volunteer in 1885 and studied law in Munich and Berlin from 1886 to 1889 . He received his doctorate in 1889 and embarked on a career as a judge, during which he became a public prosecutor in 1899, in 1902 a district judge in Munich and in 1910 a public prosecutor at the Augsburg Higher Regional Court . From 1918 he was a judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court . In 1929 he was appointed to the Bavarian Supreme Court in Munich. Neumeyer took leave of absence between 1926 and 1927 because of his association activities. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was removed from service with the law to restore the civil service due to his Jewish origin.

The founding of the Association of Bavarian and Israelite Congregations (VBIG) in 1920 went back to him. He headed the association as well as the Munich Israelitische Kultusgemeinde from 1920 to 1939, Max Freudenthal was temporarily its second chairman. In 1933, 198 parishes were organized in the association. On the one hand he succeeded in organizing a representation of the interests of the Jews in Bavaria in Bavaria, on the other hand he could not prevent the slaughtering ban in the "Law on the Slaughter of Animals" passed by the Bavarian State Parliament in 1930 . From 1932 to 1938 he was also a member of the board of directors of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , the regional association was brought into line with the newly created Reich Representation of German Jews by order of the National Socialists , that is, subordinated. Neumeyer was an important organizer in the Reichsvertretung, who helped with the forced emigration of Jews from the German Reich, Austria and the later occupied Czechoslovakia .

On March 31, 1933, Neumeyer, as association president, wrote an open letter of protest against the anti-Semitic pogroms to the Reich Commissioner for Bavaria, Franz von Epp . Neumeyer signed in the appropriate tone of submission with deep devotion and used the nationalist rhetoric that prevailed in Germany not only among the right-wing parties in terms such as certain elements abroad against Germany , great goal of national reconstruction and the well-being of the fatherland . His petition had no moderating influence on the long-established boycott of Jews from April 1, 1933.

In view of the Jewish campaign in Baden and the Palatinate, Neumeyer emigrated with his wife in February 1941 via France and Spain to Argentina, where his son Alexander had worked in agriculture and lived in very modest circumstances since his emigration in 1938. Alfred Neumeyer began to organize a representation of the Jewish communities in Argentina and wrote an autobiography.

His younger brother, the private lawyers Karl Neumeyer , committed suicide in July 1941 along with his wife in the face of imminent deportation in Munich suicide , her son, the art historian Alfred Neumeyer could emigrate in time.

Fonts (selection)

  • Alfred Neumeyer: Memories , in: Robert Schopflocher and Rainer Traub (eds.): “We want to turn the curse into a blessing”: three generations of the Jewish Neumeyer family; an autobiographical trilogy. Alfred Neumeyer; Alexander Karl Neumeyer; Imanuel Noy-Meir . Berlin: Metropol 2007, pp. 17–258.
  • Ten years of development work in South America = Diez anos de obra constructiva en America del Sud: 1933 - 1943. Ed. d. 10th anniversary of the Asociacion Filantropica Israelita . Buenos Aires: Asociacion Filantropica Israelita 1943
  • Conclusion at the address of the establishment of the Association of Bavarian Israelite Congregations in 1920 , in: Hans Lamm (Hrsg.): Von Juden in München: a memorial book . Munich: Ner-Tamid-Verl. 1958, p. 310
  • Comments on an amendment to the edict of June 10, 1813, concerning the conditions of the Jewish fellow believers in the Kingdom of Bavaria: (Government Gazette 1813, Item 39, p. 921): Report made on behalf of the larger and medium-sized Jewish religious communities in Bavaria . Augsburg: Himmer, 1914
  • Articles in the Bavarian Israelite Community Newspaper , Munich

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Bavarian Israelite Congregations (VBIG) , at the Bavarian Historical Lexicon
  2. ^ Letter to Franz von Epp, March 31, 1933 , printed by Hans Lamm (ed.): Von Juden in München: a memorial book . Munich: Ner-Tamid-Verl. 1958, p. 338
  3. ^ Heinrich von Bonhorst: Karl Neumeyer , in: Manfred Treml , Wolf Weigand (Hrsg.): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria. Resumes . Munich: Saur, 1988, pp. 257-261
personal data
SURNAME Neumeyer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and association official
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1944
Place of death Colonia Avigdor , Entre Ríos Province , Argentina