Erich Frey

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Erich Maximilian Frey (born October 16, 1882 in Breslau ; † March 30, 1964 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German lawyer and playwright .

Life

Frey studied law at the University of Heidelberg and established himself as a lawyer in Berlin in 1911. From 1920 until his emigration in 1933 he appeared in numerous so-called sensational trials. In 1928 Frey obtained an acquittal for Paul Krantz, who was accused of participating in the Steglitz school tragedy . He also defended the serial killers Carl Großmann and Friedrich Schumann . Against all odds, he got an astonishingly low prison sentence of one month with probation for Germany's first nude dancer Lola Bach . He helped the management of the “Immertreu” ring club, who had been accused of bodily harm, to acquittal and low prison sentences.

Erich Frey ran his law firm on Potsdamer Platz in Bellevuestraße 21/22, directly above Café Josty .

1932 at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm Freys drama in 5 acts perjury listed. Directed by Bernd Hofmann , the main role played by Heinrich Heilinger .

Because of his Jewish descent, he fled to Paris in 1933 and then to Chile in 1939 . He lived there until his death. In 1959 he wrote his autobiography I request acquittal, which has been successfully published several times .

Publications (selection)

  • Strike and Criminal Law , Diss. Univ. Heidelberg 1906
  • I seek acquittal. From the memories of defense attorney Erich Frey , Hamburg 1959, new edition Elsengold-Verlag Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96201-022-5
  • Frey, Erich , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 102

literature

  • Simone Ladwig-Winters: Lawyer Without Law: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Berlin after 1933 , 2007, ISBN 978-3-89809-075-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Star lawyer Erich Frey: The dandy and his heavy boys. In: Spiegel-online . Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nathalie Boegel: Berlin in the Twenties: The Star Lawyer and the Naked Dancer . In: Spiegel Online . October 1, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
  3. ^ The battle at the Silesian train station . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . December 28, 2008, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Lawyer Dr. Erich Frey, entry in the Berlin address book 1930
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Erich Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1964
Place of death Santiago de Chile