Erich Fritz Schweinburg

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Erich Fritz Schweinburg (born November 6, 1890 in Nikolsburg , Austria-Hungary ; died July 7, 1959 in Rochester , Vermont ) was an Austrian-American lawyer and writer.

Life

Erich Fritz Schweinburg was a son of the building contractor Emanuel Schweinburg and Leontine Czinczar; he grew up in a villa in the Pötzleinsdorf district of Vienna . Schweinburg studied law at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1913. Schweinburg was a soldier in the Austrian army from 1911 to 1915, but felt psychologically not up to the service as a reserve officer. He spent the rest of the First World War as a writer in seclusion near Altaussee . After the end of the war he earned his living in failing companies and therefore passed the second state examination in 1920 to work as a lawyer in criminal matters for the next few years . He married Rosa Gussman; the marriage was maintained for nine years because of the child. The daughter Raina Fehl (1920–2009) later married the art historian Philipp Fehl .

After the November pogroms in 1938, Schweinburg was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp . He was released after three months in detention. He succeeded in emigrating to England in January 1939 and from there again with his daughter at the end of August on the Normandie ship to the USA. For the next few years he had to make ends meet as a laborer; from 1942 he worked for the Russell Sage Foundation until 1949 and became a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . In 1944 he received US citizenship. In the 1950s Schweinburg worked as a freelance writer, lived in great poverty and published only a few short stories. His novel, a long journey , which he has completed and which deals with his concentration camp imprisonment in Dachau, was published thirty years after his death. A street was named after him in his native Mikulov .

Works (selection)

  • The European forwarding law . Vienna: Zoll-Speditions- u. Shipping newspaper, 1929
  • with Henrietta Kierman: Bibliography on Political, Economic and Social Backgrounds of Certain European Countries . New York, 1944
  • Law training in continental Europe: its principles and public function . Foreword by Esther Lucile Brown. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1945
  • A long journey: Roman . Vienna: Löcker, 1988 ISBN 978-3-85409-126-4

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SURNAME Schweinburg, Erich Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweinburg, Erich; Schweinburg, Erich Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolsburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1959
Place of death Rochester (Vermont)