Conrad Cohn

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Conrad Cohn (born November 25, 1901 in Breslau ; † August 15, 1942 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a German lawyer and Jewish association official who was a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Cohn, the son of a medical councilor, finished his school career at the Johannes-Gymnasium in Breslau and then studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Breslau . He received his doctorate in 1924 in Breslau with the dissertation The legal nature of giro payments for Dr. jur.

Cohn then worked as a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau until 1933 . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was banned from working. He then worked as a leader in the Jewish synagogue community in Breslau, most recently as administrative director. From 1937 he was employed in Berlin as a department head at the Reich Representation of German Jews , where he was appointed.

From July 1939, he headed the welfare department at the Reich Association of Jews in Germany , although he was not qualified for this activity or had appropriate experience. In this position he was the superior of Hannah Karminski ( General Welfare ) and Walter Lustig ( Health Care ). Furthermore, it was his responsibility in one person in the Department of Emigration preparing the vocational training and redeployment . His wife Leonore Henriette was employed as a stenographer for the Reichsvereinigung. The couple had a daughter ( Marianne born March 31, 1931 in Breslau). The family lived with Cohn's parents at Lietzenburger Strasse 8, where Inge Deutschkron was employed as a house daughter until April 1940.

After a supplementary election, Cohn moved to the board of the Reich Association in February 1940 with the approval of the Nazi supervisory authority. In the spring of 1942 Cohn was arrested and deported to a concentration camp "because pre-war soap was not properly delivered and booked in a children's home".

After Meyer / Simon / Schütz, Cohn died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . However, the majority given the place of death as the Mauthausen concentration camp. According to Berthold Simon son Cohn committed in Mauthausen suicide . His wife and daughter were deported on June 26, 1942 on the 16th Osttransport and also victims of the Holocaust .

literature

  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Probation in Downfall , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst G. Lowenthal: Probation in Downfall , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1966, p. 36f.
  2. ^ Gudrun Maierhof: Self-Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 ; Campus Verlag, 2002, p. 193
  3. ^ Gudrun Maierhof: Self-Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 ; Campus Verlag, 2002, pp. 193–195
  4. ^ Gudrun Maierhof: Self-Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 ; Campus Verlag, 2002, p. 358
  5. ↑ a b Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, Chana C. Schütz, Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum: Jews in Berlin 1938-1945 , Berlin 2000, p. 223
  6. ↑ Inge Deutschkron: We escaped. Berlin Jews in the Underground , German Resistance Memorial Center , Contributions to the Resistance 1933-1945, Berlin 2007, pp. 28f.
  7. ↑ Wolf Gruner: Public welfare and the persecution of the Jews. Interaction between local and central politics in the Nazi state (1933–1942) , Munich 2002, p. 222
  8. ↑ a b Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, Chana C. Schütz, Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum: Jews in Berlin 1938-1945 , Berlin 2000, p. 297
  9. ↑ cf. z. B. Wolf Gruner: Public welfare and the persecution of the Jews. Interaction between local and central politics in the Nazi state (1933–1942) , Munich 2002, p. 325
  10. ^ Gudrun Maierhof: Self-Assertion in Chaos: Women in Jewish Self-Help 1933–1943 ; Campus Verlag, 2002, p. 213
personal data
SURNAME Cohn, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Jewish association official, victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1942
Place of death Mauthausen concentration camp