Carl Rawitzki

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The grave of Carl Rawitzki in the Blumenstrasse cemetery in Bochum.

Carl David Rawitzki , also Karl Rawitzki (born October 21, 1879 in Thorn , West Prussia ; died April 18, 1963 in Bochum ) was a German lawyer and local politician of the SPD .

Life

Carl Rawitzki was the son of Salo Rawitzki and Regina Poznanski and attended school in Thorn. He studied law in Berlin , Munich and Königsberg and became a member of the SPD before the turn of the century . He completed his law studies at the University of Leipzig on January 26, 1903 with a doctorate . Through his acquaintance with the SPD politicians and trade unionists Hermann Sachse and Otto Hue , he came to Bochum in 1907 and was admitted to the Bochum district court as a lawyer . In 1914 he was drafted as a soldier in the First World War and at the end of the war in 1918 he was deployed as a legation councilor in the Foreign Service of the German Reich in Warsaw .

In 1919 he returned to Bochum, married Emilie Florentine Berta Schultze, of Protestant faith, and left Judaism in 1921. He worked again for the miners' union Alter Verband as a part-time lawyer and was licensed as a notary in 1920 . Rawitzki also represented the legal interests of the Bochum SPD and the local Reichsbanner organization. From March 1919 he was a city ​​councilor for the SPD in Bochum and a deputy member of the Prussian State Council until 1926 . From 1925 to 1933 he was deputy head of the city ​​council . His political activities were reprimanded by his politically reactionary colleagues.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he was arrested for a short time, became the regime's opponents a disbarment as a lawyer and was released as a notary. In the following years he stayed in Berlin and emigrated to Great Britain in 1939 . On May 28, 1940, his doctorate in Germany was revoked and in July he and his wife were revoked of their German citizenship. Rawitzki worked in London in emigre organizations, for example in the “Working Group Germany and Europe after the War” set up by the Sopade party executive. In the conflict with the Fight for Freedom group around Walter Loeb and Curt Geyer , he joined the "Free German Movement" (FDB) around Victor Schiff and Adele Schreiber in 1943 and was the main speaker at the FDB founding congress alongside Alfred Meusel from the KPD September 25, 1943. He became a member of the Preliminary Committee of the FDB, which was largely made up of KPD members, and was elected to the Presidium in June 1944. He was then expelled from the SPD at the end of 1944.

Rawitzki returned to Bochum in 1949, worked again as a lawyer and notary and as a lawyer and carer represented the surviving Nazi victims in their compensation issues . From 1952 to 1962 he was again the SPD city councilor in Bochum, member of the main committee and chairman of the culture committee.

Rawitzki received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 1959 and was made an honorary citizen of Bochum in 1962 . The city dedicated an honorary grave to him in the Blumenstrasse cemetery in Bochum. Posthumously was in the district Weitmar named a street after him.

Fonts

  • The reserved right of withdrawal in common law and in the civil code . Inaugural dissertation. Borna-Leipzig: Noske, 1903

literature

  • Bochumer Anwalt- und Notarverein eV: Time without law: Justice in Bochum after 1933; Documentation of an exhibition . Recklinghausen, 2002 ISBN 3-933480-13-2 , pp. 159-160.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933 . Vol. 1, Saur, Munich 1980, p. 587.
  • Werner Röder: The German Socialist Exile Groups in Great Britain, 1940-1945 . 2., verb. Ed. Verl. Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973 (Munich, Univ., Diss., 1967)
  • Thomas Henne (Ed.): The revocation of doctoral degrees at the law faculty of the University of Leipzig 1933 - 1945 . Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl. 2007
  • 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 , p. 306.
  • Hubert Schneider: Dr. Carl Rawitzki (1879-1963), the forgotten honorary citizen of the city of Bochum. In: Bochumer Punkte, No. 30, September 2013, pages 34–57.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Bochumer Anwalt- und Notarverein eV: Zeit ohne Recht , 2002, p. 159f
  2. a b Thomas Henne (Ed.): The withdrawal of doctoral degrees , 2007, p. 115
  3. a b Michael Hepp (Ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger. 1. Lists in chronological order , Munich: Saur 1985, p. 376
  4. Thomas Henne (Ed.): The withdrawal of doctoral degrees , 2007, p. 76
  5. ^ Socialist communications , September 1942
  6. ^ Werner Röder: The German Socialist Exile Groups in Great Britain, 1940-1945 . 1973, p. 148, footnote 122; P. 232
  7. a b Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933 . 1980, p. 587
  8. ^ Werner Röder: The German Socialist Exile Groups in Great Britain, 1940-1945 . 1973, pp. 207ff; P. 214
  9. see Hubert Schneider: Die "Dejudung" des Wohnraums - "Judenhäuser" in Bochum: the history of buildings and their inhabitants , Berlin: Lit, 2010 ISBN 978-3-643-10828-9 , passim