Arthur Gumbert

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Arthur Gumbert (also: Artur Gumbert ; born March 3, 1877 in Hanover ; died October 6, 1942 in the Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a German lawyer .

Life

family

Arthur Gumbert was a member of a Jewish family.

His son Henry Gumbert, who later emigrated to Sydney , Australia, married Anita, née Kaufmann. The couple had a daughter named Ivonne Gumbert in 1943. The family lived at 18a Furber Road, Centennial Park at the time .

Career

Arthur Gumbert was born in Hanover during the early days of the German Empire . After attending school, he studied law in Göttingen , where he obtained his title of Dr. jur. at the Georg August University .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 Gumbert initially remained in his home town living, where he worked as a lawyer worked. However, due to the steadily growing anti-Semitic reprisals, he emigrated to the Netherlands in February 1936 .

In Amsterdam , Gumbert was elected the organization's second chairman after the Vereenigig van Duitse Emigranten founded in January 1937 . Here he worked temporarily together with Otto Rudolf Falkenberg , the secretary of the association, which in turn worked with the Central Association of German Emigration led by Albert Grzesinski to represent the League of Nations .

Also around 1937 Gumbert acquired the portrait of the Old Port of Marseilles, which was painted in oil on canvas in 1890 by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1890 , entitled Vieux Port à Marseille . It came from the provenance of Margarete Oppenheim, who lived in Berlin, and after an exchange deal in 1941 it was later included in a catalog by the Sotheby’s auction house in New York .

Meanwhile, Gumbert had been stripped of his doctorate in Germany because of his Jewish origins .

Obituary notice from Henry Gumbert's family for "Artur Gumbert", who allegedly passed away gently in Amsterdam;
in the construction of May 21, 1943

In the middle of the Second World War , the descendants of Gumbert, who emigrated to Australia, first and foremost his son Henry, wrote in the German-Jewish monthly magazine Aufbau. News sheet of the German-Jewish Club in the issue of May 21, 1943 an obituary notice for “Dr. Artur Gumbert ”. According to this, the family in Sydney would only have received the "painful news" of the father and grandfather who had supposedly "gently fallen asleep in Amsterdam in autumn 1942" months earlier. In fact, Arthur Gumbert was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp , where he died on October 6, 1942.

On October 27, 2004, the Senate of the University of Göttingen unanimously decided that Gumbert's doctorate, which had been illegally revoked at the time of National Socialism, was void .

See also

literature

  • Peter Schulze in Hans Joachim Brand : Past Today. Historical personalities from the Celle Bar Association , 2nd, reviewed and expanded edition, ed. from the Celle Bar Association, Celle: Bar Association, 2004, p. 218

Archival material

Archives by and about Arthur Gumbert can be found, for example

Web links

Commons : Arthur Gumbert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d o. V .: Gumbert, Arthur in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of October 10, 2005, last accessed on September 30, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c Remco: Arthur Gumbert in Dutch or English on the joodsmonument.nl page in the version of June 19, 2010, last accessed on September 30, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e Werner Röder , Herbert A. Strauss (ed.), Dieter Marc Schneider, Louise Forsyth (collaborators), Jan Foitzik et al. : Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933 (= International biographical dictionary of Central European émigrés 1933 - 1945 ), ed. from the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, and from the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, Inc., New York under the overall direction of Werner Röder and Herbert A. Strauss, Part 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life , Munich: KG Saur, 1980, ISBN 978-3-598-10087-1 and ISBN 3-598-10087-6 and ISBN 0-89664-101-5 , p. 253; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c Elmar Mittler (ed.), Kerstin Thieler : "... wearing a German academic degree unworthy." The withdrawal of doctorates at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen in the "Third Reich" (= Goettingen library writings , band 32), conference publication for the exhibition of the same name in the foyer of the new building of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen from October 29, 2004 to November 22, 2004, 2nd, expanded edition. with an introduction by Bernd Weisbrod , Göttingen: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitäts-Bibliothek, 2006, ISBN 978-3-930457-67-0 and ISBN 3-930457-67-9 ; as a PDF preview on academia.edu
  5. ↑ Information on lot 374 for auction using the auction catalog from 2016
personal data
SURNAME Gumbert, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gumbert, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1942
Place of death Mauthausen concentration camp