Arthur Lilienthal

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Arthur Lilienthal (born March 13, 1899 in Berlin ; lost 1942 ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Arthur Lilienthal, son of the lawyer and syndic of the Berlin Jewish Community, Leo Lilienthal (1857–1927), was active in the Jewish youth movement . He received his doctorate in 1925 for Dr. iur. on the position of religious societies in the Weimar constitution .

Lilienthal started a civil service career and became a judge. Until the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he worked as a district judge in Berlin.

From 1925 to 1929 he was a liberal member of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Congregations and was a member of the board there from 1930. From 1931 he was a deputy president of the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities and chaired the welfare committee.

From 1934 he was part of the management of the Reich Representation of German Jews in the role of Secretary General . From 1939 he was a member of the board of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany . He headed the finance and community departments of the Reich administration and was responsible for their community department.

In 1942, after having been interned in Sachsenhausen in 1938 , he was arrested again. On June 22, 1942, he was deported to Minsk on the 16th Eastern Transport and has been missing ever since.

Fonts

  • State supervision of religious societies according to Article 137 of the Reich Constitution , Heymann, Berlin 1925.

Literature (selection)

  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Probation in Downfall , Stuttgart 1965
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 .
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max P. Birnbaum: State and Synagogue, 1918-1938 , Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1981, p. 119
  2. ^ Gudrun Maierhof: Self-Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 ; Campus Verlag, 2002, p. 337
  3. ^ Gudrun Maierhof: Self-Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 ; Campus Verlag, 2002, p. 358
personal data
SURNAME Lilienthal, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1942