Curt Radlauer

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Curt Radlauer (born October 10, 1884 in Posen , † August 28, 1982 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and civil servant .

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Radlauer was the son of the pharmacist Siegmund Radlauer and his wife Regina, nee Mottek. In his youth he attended the Dorotheenstädtische Realgymnasium in Berlin, which he left with the Abitur in 1902. He then studied economics and anthropology in Berlin , Munich and Zurich from 1902 to 1908 . On August 4, 1908 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil . In the following years he undertook private anthropological studies. He also worked on the trade magazine Nord und Süd. Monthly for international cooperation with. He later became a laborer at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin.

From July 1911 to the end of 1912 Radlauer was editor-in-chief of North and South . On April 7, 1913, he was appointed to the government council. From June 26, 1915 to September 12, 1916, Radlauer took part in the First World War.

On December 19, 1919 Radlauer joined the press department of the Foreign Office as an extraordinary unskilled worker , where he was assigned to Section J (Internal and Foreign Policy). His area of ​​expertise was primarily dealing with relations with the Reichstag . In the Foreign Office, Radlauer was promoted to government councilor (September 3, 1925) and senior government councilor (April 9, 1927). Politically, Radlauer belonged to the Reich Party of German Middle Classes during the Weimar period .

On September 24, 1932, Radlauer was put into temporary retirement as a result of the general job changes in the press department of the Reich government. A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power , Radlauer was given final retirement on July 18, 1933 because of his Jewish descent.

During the Nazi era , Radlauer was arrested several times and banned from working. He escaped deportation because of his " Aryan " wife.

In November 1945 Radlauer was accepted as the main advisor to the Berlin State Tax Office . Around the same time he became head of the Protestant Aid Agency for formerly racially persecuted people. On May 31, 1953, he was appointed senior councilor in the state tax office. On August 1, 1955, he was appointed Government Director and on March 26, 1956, he was appointed Senate Council.

Radlauer was a co-founder of the German-Israeli Society and an honorary member of the Association of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime, founded in 1950. He was a member of the International League for Human Rights eV and from 1965 to 1968 league president, later its honorary president until his death.

Radlau's legacy is now stored in the archive of the Aid Center for Former Race Persecuted People.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the anthropology of the sacrum , 1908. (Dissertation)
  • Draft of a reparation law for Greater Berlin based on the municipal bill , 1948.
  • Draft law on recognition as a "victim of fascism" on the basis of the magistrate's bill , 1948.

literature

  • Who was who among English and European Authors, 1931-1949 , Vol. 3, 1978, p. 1163.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the year of death s. Obituaries in Der Tagesspiegel, September 5, 1982, p. 18
  2. ↑ Werner Stephan: Eight Decades of Experienced Germany , 1983, p. 220.
  3. ^ Der Tagesspiegel, September 5, 1982: Obituary notice of the International League for Human Rights
personal data
SURNAME Radlauer, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1983
Place of death Berlin